ABOUT UNITE-LA
UNITE-LA advances cradle-to-career outcomes, develops career pathways in high-growth industries, and advances greater economic mobility for high priority populations.
For 25 years, UNITE-LA has been active in the development of comprehensive and scaled career pathways. Our multicultural, multi-stakeholder Cleantech Academy cultivates a more diverse, skilled, and economically mobile workforce within L.A.’s emerging cleantech industries while ensuring under-resourced communities, particularly those facing persistent systemic barriers, have equitable access to postsecondary career education and living wage occupations.
We engage and collaborate with public, private, and community partners to inform our work and evolve strategies for improved youth engagement and outcomes. UNITE-LA’s work-based learning programs prioritize cleantech, health care, and tech due to wider career pathways, higher wages, and more stable scaffolding for upward transitions. To date, we have served over 600,000 youth.
UNITE-LA is the Exclusive Employer Engagement Specialist for L.A. Economic Workforce Development Department and the City of Los Angeles’ Hire L.A. Youth campaign.
“UNITE-LA is excited to partner with leading cleantech companies throughout Los Angeles to equip our future workforce with essential skills to access and excel in cleantech careers. This directly aligns with UNITE-LA’s career pathways work focused on inclusive engagement in our region’s high-growth, high-wage industries.”
Alysia Bell
President, UNITE-LA
Over the past 25 years, UNITE-LA has been a trusted education-business intermediary, dedicated to supporting the development of an effective local public education system, so that all children and youth succeed in school, college, career and beyond. Through the intersection of programming, policy, and systems change efforts, UNITE-LA works to increase equity and access to high-quality early childhood and K-12 education, improve college access and success, and ensure workforce readiness, especially for individuals facing systemic barriers into the workforce. Visit www.unitela.com.