Earlier this month, participating institutes finalized their selection of interns for the 2018 Life Sciences Summer Institute (LSSI). This year's LSSI cohort will have 9 companies and 30 students participating. The program will be kicking off next week with LSSI interns attending their pre-internship bootcamp at either San Diego Miramar College or Grossmont College.

In 2014, the San Diego Workforce Partnership (SDWP) identified five Priority Sectors to which San Diego County should direct its workforce development efforts, selected because of their significant employment growth rates, strong wages and number of job openings. SDWP’s research team published extensive reports on these sectors in 2014, and updated their research in the fall of 2017.

This fall, Arielle Cook became one of the first CONNECT2Careers (C2C) participants to begin a Bank of America Military-Connected Youth Internship. Bank of America partnered with C2C to create this exciting internship program, providing subsidized wages for 25 military-connected young adults (including young veterans and children of military families) to complete 40-hour internships....

In September 2017, CONNECT2Careers (C2C) partnered with two elected officials to host job fairs in the respective areas they serve. These job fairs each had multiple employers and many job seekers in attendance, showing the positive impact that these partnerships have in the community. On September 14, Councilmember Chris Cate, the City of San Diego's Commission on Gang Prevention and Intervention and C2C worked together to host a job fair at Mira Mesa High School, which presented an opportunit