Welcome to the Southeast Los Angeles County Workforce Investment Board (SELACO WIB) online community resource and career center. This web site is a part of a total community outreach program that is tied directly to our Career Centers, Community Youth Corps, and hundreds of partner agencies and service providers available to customers of all ages.

SELACO WIB specializes in helping people gain the skills and confidence necessary to find job and career opportunities that lead to self-sufficiency and long-term employment. Together with that you’ll find a host of vital social services and life skills programs designed to help ensure life-long success and the health and well being of the family.

But our mission is really two-fold, because workforce development also includes promoting the growth of business with specialized programs aimed at supporting needs of employers.

We are proud to be recognized by both the U.S. Department of Labor and the State of California as a national model for community-based workforce and employment development. Beyond the personal gratification, awards and praise means rewards in the form of funding and incentive grants that allow us to develop new and better programs designed to help a wider range of individuals and businesses in need.

This agency was established in September 1983 (by six cities, excluding Artesia) to administer the federal Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) Public Law 97-300. In July 1992, re-designation of the Service Delivery Area (SDA) to include Artesia was approved by Governor Pete Wilson. On July 1, 2000, the WIB transitioned from operating under JTPA to operating under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA).

As the agency transitioned into a Workforce Investment Board, two career centers have replaced the top-down paradigm for serving selected customers. These centers are universally accessible, consumer-oriented networks of career centers that include not only employment and training services, but a host of other partner services to make up a comprehensive, community-based social service center for each local area. Our mission continues to be the consolidation of partner services utilizing different funding streams, and realign the powers and duties of state and local partners.