Laurette's Experience

A proven track record of workforce training and jobs placement in her district.

Unemployment in the 46th AD is approximately 9% although the unemployment rate fluctuates depending on age, workforce skills, and education. Since 2008 Healey has been employed at various community colleges in workforce and economic development departments, including Pierce College, where her primary function was to establish and implement Workforce

Development and Job Placement programs. The following are recent examples:

• March 2011 – Healey’s department at Pierce College received a statewide award given by the California Community College Association of Occupational Education for 100% placement of dislocated workers re-trained in automotive hybrid technology into full time employment at regional automotive dealerships.

• September 2010 – June 2011 – Healey was responsible for coordinating the largest workforce training and job placement program in America, in state certified clean energy workforce training and placement programs for workers in the construction industry. The program reported the highest job placement in the State of California by placing 50% of the program participants in full time employment in “green jobs” as State Certified Green Building Professionals including: water resource specialists, renewable energy installers, building performance analysts, building controls system specialists, residential building performance auditors’, Building Informational Designers, and Sustainable Landscape Designers.

• July 1 – current – Healey created a vocational training program at Kedren Community Health Center in sustainable landscape design to serve mentally ill patients who are capable of participating in the clinic’s wellness center. The program has proven to be so successful that Healey will be implementing a second training session in September 2011 with plans to offer certificate driven water efficiency, and drafting programs for the more advanced participants. Healey is working with Kedren to initiate a job placement program whereby Kedren will hire graduating participants as professional groundskeepers in the more than 39 Head Start facilities that Kedren operates throughout Los Angeles.

• July 1 – current – Healey is currently spearheading a pilot program for Alternative Sentencing at the invitation of the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office for first time offenders that will offer workforce training in renewable energy technologies with subsequent job placement in lieu of incarceration. This model is the first of its kind and offers a unique approach to reduce prison overpopulation due in large part to the current 70% recidivism rate.

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