WSIN25-21 — Regional Coordination Project — PY 25-26
The March competition is over. California awarded $9.75 million to ten WDB-led regional projects linking workforce boards, colleges, adult schools, employers, and labor around certificates, apprenticeships, work-based learning, and high-quality jobs.
Feb. 12, 2026
May 14, 2026
$9.75 million
10 WDB/local-area projects
Source + trust record
Source checked as of September 18, 2026. Primary authority: EDD WSIN25-21 and EDD WSIN25-30.
Check result: The PY 2025-26 Regional Coordination Project competition closed March 17, 2026 and produced ten awards totaling $9.75 million on May 14. The old SFP is no longer an open opportunity; the award portfolio is now the controlling source for current funded projects and peer-learning context. This AI-assisted brief does not receive human legal or compliance review. Official sources control.
The bottom line
This is now a statewide practice portfolio, not an open grant.
The ten projects are testing how WDBs and education partners can jointly build industry-recognized credentials, apprenticeships, short-term certificates, work-based learning, and supportive-service pathways. The expected performance period is 18–24 months.
Find a project that resembles your region’s problem and learn from it while implementation is underway, rather than waiting for a final report.
Where the projects are
Ten awards across urban, rural, and multi-county regions.
| Awardee | Award | Counties |
|---|---|---|
| City of Santa Ana | $1,000,000 | Orange |
| Kern/Inyo/Mono Consortium WDA | $1,000,000 | Kern |
| County of Humboldt | $750,000 | Humboldt |
| Contra Costa County WDB | $1,000,000 | Contra Costa, Alameda |
| City of Los Angeles EWDD/WDB | $1,000,000 | Los Angeles |
| Golden Sierra Job Training Agency | $1,000,000 | Colusa, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, Sutter, Yolo, Yuba |
| San Bernardino County WDD | $1,000,000 | San Bernardino, Riverside |
| NOVAworks WDB | $1,000,000 | San Mateo, Santa Clara |
| Mother Lode Consortium | $1,000,000 | Amador, Calaveras, Mariposa, Tuolumne, Alpine, Inyo, Mono |
| South Bay Workforce Investment Board | $1,000,000 | Los Angeles |
What California is testing
Regional coordination tied to actual training capacity.
Industry-recognized and stackable pathways.
Earn-and-learn and work-based learning integrated with education.
WDBs, colleges, adult schools, employers, labor, and community partners.
Training linked to in-demand sectors and stronger economic mobility.
Operational considerations for WDBs
Treat the award list as a peer-learning network.
EDD identifies health care, advanced manufacturing, aerospace, forestry, natural resources, and biosciences among funded sectors.
Rural access, shared cohorts, employer engagement, college alignment, and apprenticeship are often more transferable than sector labels.
MOUs, referral workflows, program maps, employer-validation tools, and governance structures can be more useful than presentation slides.
The important outcome is not only enrollment during the grant; it is whether regional capacity lasts after discretionary funds end.
Leadership questions
Source authority
Use the award notice for current status.
WSIN25-21 — original RCP solicitation
Peer-learning and sustainability questions are implementation aids, not additional EDD grant conditions.
Rewritten from an expired solicitation into a current award portfolio and regional-practice scan.