Gold Standard Playbook for Workforce Development

Gold Standard Playbook for Workforce Development

Accelerator for America

August 2024

This Workforce Development Playbook – a menu of malleable strategies and tactics that can be applied in different situational contexts – is meant to serve two purposes:

1. To document best practices in workforce development focusing on California but with applicability nationally and sources.
2. To set the first “Gold Standard” guiding owners who want to incorporate workforce development goals into their infrastructure projects.

To develop the Playbook, WSP and Accelerator for America (AFA) supported by The James Irvine Foundation, gathered information on current standards, practices, and barriers to workforce development efforts through interviews with key stakeholders across the industry in California, including project owners, community benefit organizations (CBOs), and government leaders.