About High Road Training Partnerships

The High Road Training Partnerships (HRTP) initiative is a $10M demonstration project designed to model partnership strategies for the state. Ranging from transportation to health care to hospitality, the HRTP model embodies the sector approach championed by the Board — industry partnerships that deliver equity, sustainability, and job quality. Along with these program investments, the Board is producing a body of policy and principle to guide related undertakings across the workforce system. Indeed, the initiative was designed as a campaign — to advance a field of practice that simultaneously addresses urgent questions of income inequality, economic competitiveness, and climate change through regional skills strategies designed to support economically and environmentally resilient communities across the state. The industry-based, worker-focused training partnerships build skills for California’s “high road” employers — firms that compete based on quality of product and service achieved through innovation and investment in human capital, and can thus generate family-supporting jobs where workers have agency and voice.

Foundation Documents

High Road – Overview

• High Road Framework
• Equity
• Job Quality
• Climate

Essential Elements

• Industry Led Problem Solving
• Partnership as a Priority
• Worker Voice
• Training Solutions

HRTP Projects

• High Road to Distribution and Logistics
• High Road to Janitorial
• High Road to Healthcare
• High Road to Hospitality
• High Road to the Port
• High Road to the Public Sector
• High Road to Public Transit
• High Road to Water

The Guidelines for California Workforce Development Board Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Administration were drafted and posted for public comment through June 15, 2020.  The document contains edits as a reflection of public comment received.  Where applicable, edits will also be incorporated into Requests for Applications for these funds.

The Guidelines for California Workforce Development Board Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Administration

HRTP Low Carbon Economy Workforce Program Request for Applications

The California Workforce Development Board is pleased to announce the availability of up to $9 million for the HRTP initiative at this time to fund two project categories: 1) Developing a New High Road Training Partnership and 2) Regional Workforce Strategies.

RFA No. 59210

Application Forms

Project Type: Developing a New High Road Training Partnership

Form 1: Project Narrative (NEW)
Form 2: Project Matrix (NEW)
Forms 3 – 13: Application Workbook (NEW)

Project Type: Regional Workforce Strategies

Form 1: Project Narrative (RWS)
Form 2: Project Matrix (RWS)
Forms 3 – 13: Application Workbook (RWS)

If you are applying for both project types, two separate applications must be submitted. Combined applications will be automatically denied during the technical review.

Important Dates

*Note – All dates after the final proposal submission deadline are approximate and may be adjusted as conditions dictate.