Faith-Based Community Initiative (FBCI)
The Alameda County Workforce Development Board, the Oakland Workforce Development Board, and the Oakland Private Industry Council are launching the Faith-Based Community Initiative (FBCI) to provide connections of congregational members to career services, networks, business services, and other opportunities. As we plan to embark on this partnership, we aim to collect some information through a survey, to better inform how to collaborate with your organization.
All three organizations are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion and ensure the availability of relevant career services for job seekers, including adults, dislocated workers, youth, and young adults. Additionally, we aim to provide resources for employers to assist in talent identification, training and upskilling, and retaining their workforce.
The FBCI will ideally include your faith-based organization as a collaborating partner to create in-roads to workforce development programs and services that will help inform, educate, and prepare residents and your members for successful career options, occupational training, and supportive services. Please take a moment to complete this survey so we can better understand how to best share and disseminate information about our services to members in your congregation/faith-based organization. As
soon as we receive your response, we will contact you to move our partnership forward.