Community Facts
About
At SLATE-Z, we address poverty and move South Los Angeles residents to economic opportunity by focusing on two sources of wealth building: living wage jobs and small business & entrepreneurship.
As our nation enters the new climate resilient economy, SLATE-Z works to ensure that South Los Angeles residents are
trained/prepared for the economic opportunities ahead and that the high-quality jobs that will result from these investments are ones that can foster economic opportunity, stability, and mobility for South Los Angeles families.
SLATE-Z’s Jobs efforts are interrelated with its other levers of change: transit, education, public safety, and small business and entrepreneurship.
Move South Los Angeles residents into 10,000 living wage jobs
- Build, strengthen, and institutionalize sector pathways in Green Jobs, Transportation, Early Care/Education, and BioTech
- Increase pipeline opportunities for targeted local hire programs, including pre-civil service sector and local hire for nonprofits
- Strengthen the capacity of workforce development systems to help serve vulnerable populations
Projects & Initiatives
Local Hire for Lucas Museum Construction
Since breaking ground on the museum’s 11-acre campus in Exposition Park in March 2018, the privately-funded project has employed 1,477 construction workers throughout various phases of construction. The project has partnered on recruitment efforts with SLATE-Z to ensure that jobs are going to South Los Angeles residents.
Community Economic Resilience Fund (CERF)
CERF was created to promote a sustainable and equitable recovery from the economic distress of COVID-19 by supporting new plans and strategies to diversify local economies and develop sustainable industries that create high-quality, broadly accessible jobs for all Californians. The Los Angeles Coalition of CERF, over 200 organizations including SLATE-Z, will prioritize accessible, high-quality jobs in sustainable industries.
Foster Youth Resource Fair
To support the approximately 50 youth in foster care who were both connected to the SLATE-Z area and would be aging out of the system by the end of 2021, SLATE-Z’s Foster Youth Subcommittee hosted a resource fair held on the campus of Los Angeles Trade Technical College (LATTC). The event brought together workforce development, housing, legal assistance, and other resources to South Los Angeles foster youth.
Measuring Need & Success
Explore key takeaways in Jobs data, browse the featured dataset, and see all the data and sources being used to measure need and success in this lever of change.
Key Takeaways
Job Placements
Featured Dataset
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Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Act Job Placements
The number of adults/dislocated workers and youth who received a job through Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) at Worksource Centers in South LA Promise Zone zip codes, as reported in the CalJOBS system in each year between January 2016 and June 2024
Sector-Based Job Placements
The number of job placements through various sector-based programs in South LA Promise Zone zip codes in each year between 2016 and 2019
Hire LA Youth Work Experience Placements
The number of youth (betwen the ages of 14 and 24) who were enrolled in the Hire LA Youth program at YouthSource Centers in South LA Promise Zone zip codes, as reported in the CalJOBS system in each year between January 2017 and June 2024
