METRO E3 INITIATIVE:

How to Expose, Educate, and Employ the Next

Generation for Careers in the Global Transportation
Industry

May 2018
Job opportunities in the
transportation industry are
increasing
MEASURE M WILL
GENERATE MORE THAN

778,000
New jobs in the next 40
years

https://www.metro.net/projects/main_page/boomtown/
2
But the pool of
qualified 50%
applicants IS NOT
Over 50% of the
transportation
industry
workforce will be
eligible for
retirement in the
next 10 years – a
pace double that
of the nation’s
entire workforce

3
 METRO’S WORKFORCE NEEDS

Number of new
2,200 employees
Metro hires
We must expand
annually Metro’s highly
skilled and diverse
Metro
employees who
workforce to meet
69% are currently growing workforce
over 40 years
old demands, skills-
Metro gaps, and looming
employees who
46% will be eligible retirements
for retirement
in the next 5 Link: WIN-LA Program Framework, Metro Data

years 4
 CURRENT CAREER
PATHWAYS FOR YOUTH

Entry Level
training
Metro Program
Workforce Internship (ELTP)
Initiative Now Program Trains college
(WIN-LA) (MIP) graduates
Transportatio college and
n Careers Attract,
WHAT can graduate
develop,
be done to expand Academy and employ students
Metro’s existing Program
(TCAP) underrepresent
workforce ed
Summer
development Internships communities
programs to for 11th and
include 12th graders
more middle and
high-school-age
youth? LA Metro 2017. Metro Career Pathways Report
5
 PROJECT MISSION AND GOALS

MISSION: Prepare Los Angeles County youth for career

and college pathways in the global transportation
industry by teaching them transferrable (STEAM)
industry skills.

Expose LA Educate and Expand Reinforce Support Youth’s

County youth train LA Metro’s highly Metro’s role as transition into
to careers in County youth skilled and an innovative college and
the global in diverse Public Agency careers in the
transportation transferrable workforce to global
industry transportation meet growing transportation
industry-skills demands and industry
retirements

OBJECTIVE: Expand Metro’s existing career pathway programs to

include more middle and high-school-age youth

NGLC MyWays. 2017. Visual Summary of the MyWays Student Success Series.
6
METRO CANNOT DO THIS ALONE
KEY STAKEHOLDERS FOR THIS PROJECT

K-12 Schools

SUCCESSFUL
PROGRAMS
Industry Colleges

Wrap-Around

7
POTENTIAL SCHOOL CAREER
PATHWAYS
ENGINEERING

CONSTRUCTION AND TRADES / INFASTRUCTURE

MECHANICS AND OPERATIONS

(bus & rail operators, mechanics, etc.)

GLOBAL TRADE AND LOGISTICS

BUSINESS OPERATIONS
(Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, Budgeting, etc.)

CIVICS & PUBLIC POLICY

(Planning, Law, Public Relations, Real Estate, Communications)

SAFETY (Security/Police)
8
 SUPPLEMENTAL E3 PROGRAM
COMPONENTS (TBD)

Metro
TCAP
Internship
Metro
Field Trips
Mentors

Mobile Metro
Bus Teacher
Workshop Fellowship

Metro Transportation School

9
VERMONT-MANCHESTER SITE

Stigma and lack of

awareness about career
opportunities in
transportation industry

Project Location Map & Site Plan are from RFP 10

VERMONT-MANCHESTER SITE

Stigma and lack of

awareness about career
opportunities in
transportation industry

11
 COMMUNITY NEED

Stigma and lack of

awareness about career
opportunities in
transportation industry

• Over 62,000 youth <18 live near the site

• Youth make up > 30% of the population in the area
• One of the highest youth population densities in the
12
County
 COMMUNITY NEED

• 430 justice-system involved youth in the 3 zip codes immediately

surrounding the proposed site Stigma and lack of
awareness about career
• 1,691 foster youth in Group Homesopportunities
in the 8 zip codes
in surrounding
the site transportation industry

• 3.82% of students in area schools are Homeless and 1.94% are

foster youth, compared to County averages of 3.6% and 0.83%

• Teen Motherhood is 2X more likely in South LA than all other

County areas

• 11% of the homeless population in South LA are youth under 18

13
CAPACITY TO SERVE YOUNG
OPPORTUNITY YOUTH

Stigma and lack of

awareness about career
opportunities in
transportation industry

14
Our joint goal is to
create the workforce of
tomorrow through this
innovative education-
industry partnership

15
 METRO’S
ROLE

Provide students with the skills needed in the

workplace that cannot be taught within the core
academic curriculum.

Provide hands-on learning experiences such as

project support, internships, mentorship,
workshops and tours.
16