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Long Beach City College is the consortium’s anchor community college partner and the home of the Phase 1 active CHW Corps program. Long Beach City College is a federally designated Hispanic-Serving Institution with a student body over 60 percent Hispanic and Latino and predominantly low-income. The college operates the CHW Certificate of Achievement as the credentialed training infrastructure for the Phase 1 active workforce track, currently enrolling, training, and graduating cohorts of 30 to 40 students through the credit-bearing pathway with recruitment focused on predominantly Latina and Latino, Black and African American, and Pacific Islander neighborhoods in Long Beach. Long Beach City College is also designated as a Phase 2 verified expansion candidate for the AOD/SUD Counselor category through the Addiction Treatment Counseling and Mental Health Studies program, CAADE-accredited per the October 22, 2022 ACCBC letter of accreditation, with documented student pathway to Certified Addictions Treatment Counselor certification through ACCBC intern registration and the program’s clinical practicum infrastructure. Long Beach City College also operates a Social Work program.

Career advancement track: Individual Placement and Support Employment Specialist

Community Violence Intervention services are routed through the community health worker certificate pathway under Assembly Bill 1929, Chapter 154, Statutes of 2022. AB 1929 expanded the CHW workforce scope to include community violence intervention services delivered by certified community health workers operating under qualifying supervising providers, eliminating the need for a separate CVI credential. The CVI services address the documented community violence outcomes referenced in Section 1.4, including the documented homelessness, incarceration, and youth justice involvement outcomes that California’s enacted CVI policy framework is designed to interrupt.

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Peer Voices United operates the consortium’s second operational Phase 1 active track. Peer Voices United is a collaborative initiative powered by Peer Voices of Orange County and ten behavioral health partner organizations across Los Angeles, Orange, and Ventura counties, with documented service delivery of 1,250 or more peer services and 700 or more individuals reached through the chapter network and partner organization deployment. The service delivery operation includes peer support, crisis response, community engagement, and care coordination, with workforce supervised by experienced peer leaders and supported by Peer Voices United’s documented operational infrastructure. The Phase 1 active service delivery track is the placement and continuing education infrastructure that community college graduates from the Phase 1 expansion ELAC training program will enter upon credential completion, and it is the documented operational evidence that the consortium’s Peer Support workforce production model has placement capacity in active deployment today.

Career advancement track: Individual Placement and Support Employment Specialist

California’s Behavioral Health Services Act establishes mandatory county implementation of the Individual Placement and Support evidence-based supported employment model beginning July 1, 2026. Counties operating Specialty Mental Health Services and Drug Medi-Cal Organized Delivery System programs must offer IPS as a service for individuals with serious mental illness or substance use disorders. The IPS Employment Specialist role is a documented career advancement track for Peer Support Specialists and AOD/SUD Counselors. The consortium will incorporate IPS-aligned content into peer and AOD/SUD curriculum, identify county and CBO IPS implementation partners across the three-county service area, and route interested graduates into the IPS specialist pathway as a documented career advancement option.

Human Technology Interface is the consortium’s technology partner for the outcomes tracking system buildout.