Workplace Learning Resource Centers (WpLRC)

Training California's Workforce

The WpLRC is a statewide economic and workforce development program that provides business and industry with customized training and education solutions. The goal is to improve workplace skills, assist in workforce preparation, and foster work readiness and career readiness.

We specialize in Basic Skills, Math, Occupational Skills Assessment, Vocational English as a Second Language (ESL) and Basic Mathematics training programs and services to ensure California's workforce has the skills necessary to be successful and that employers have the highly trained and productive workforce they need to compete.

The WpLRC is a network of 12 Centers across California that develop and implement innovative, effective, responsive and affordable training solutions that include customized training for the individual customer and certificate training in such areas as Customer Service, Generational Diversity and Basic Skills in the Green Economy. The Centers serve public entities, private businesses, non-profits and workforce development organizations.

The WpLRC also provide services to Community Colleges through faculty in-service training, technical assistance, curriculum contextualization and ESL course integration for colleges, by partnering with individual colleges, Career Technical Education, the Basic Skills Initiative and the Academic Senate.

Workplace Learning Resource Centers (WpLRC)

Upgrade – Onsite Workforce Skills Instruction

Enhance – Job Retention, Career Readiness and Career Advancement

Improve – Productivity through Basic Workforce Skills Training

Contact

Bruce Whistler - Statewide WpLRC Director
Phone: (650) 641-0161
Email: bwhistler@cccewd.net
Web: www.wplrc.org

Workplace Learning Resource Centers

NORTHERN
Chabot-Las Positas CCD, Dublin, CA
Judi Watkins, Director
Phone: (925) 560.9447
Fax: (925) 560-9458
Email: jwatkins@clpccd.org

Los Rios CCD, Sacramento, CA
Valerie Carrigan, Project Director
Phone: (916) 563-3253
Fax: (916) 563-3270
Email: carrigv@losrios.edu

CENTRAL
Merced College, Merced, CA
Becky Barabé, Director
Phone: (209) 386-6734
Fax: (209) 386-7393
Email: becky.barabe@mccd.edu

Division of Economic Development, Ventura County CCD - Ventura, CA
Terry L. Schukart, Project Manager
Phone: (805) 654-6429
Fax: (805) 648-8914
Email: tschukart@vcccd.edu

  

SOUTHERN
Cuyamaca College, El Cajon, CA
Linda Waring, Director
Phone: (619) 660-4508
Fax: (619) 660-4386
Email: linda.waring1@gcccd.edu

El Camino CCD, Hawthorne, CA
Philip Sutton, Director
Phone: (310) 973-3172
Fax: (310) 973-3132
Email: psutton@elcamino.edu

HUBS
Southern Hub Director
Barbara Fanning
Phone: (760) 402-2378
Fax: (480) 247-4442
Email:info@wplrc.org

 

PROJECT MONITOR
John L. Prentiss
Phone: (916) 327-5496
Email: jprentis@cccco.edu

  

For general questions about the Workplace Learning Resource Centers email info@wplrc.org or contact your local center.

“The Economic and Workforce Development program through the California Community Colleges (EWD) has provided RTI Electronic, Inc. with top quality tools, resources, curriculum and talented trainers that have positively impacted our performance, quality and organizational development, and are integral to the survival and ongoing improvement of California businesses.”

Dottie Wade - IT Manager
RTI Electronics, Inc.


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