Green Building and Clean Energy Pre-Apprenticeship
Training Partnerships
California leads the nation in implementing innovative public policies supporting clean energy development, climate change mitigation and building efficiency standards. California's green economy can only be built and sustained by a well-trained workforce that can advance California's policies for a clean energy future.
Working through partnerships with local work force investment boards and community colleges, the Clean Energy Workforce Training Program delivers training to unemployed and underemployed workers seeking careers in green industry. Click on these links for information on 18 training programs spread around the state:
- College of the Desert
- Hartnell College
- Humboldt County
- Imperial Valley College
- Kern/Inyo/Mono Consortium
- Long Beach Community College District
- Los Angeles City
- Los Angeles Trade Technical College
- Northern Rural Training and Employment Consortium
- Peralta Community College District
- Richmond City
- Sacramento Employment Training Agency
- San Bernardino Community College District
- San Diego Workforce Partnership
- San Francisco Department of Economic and Workforce Development
- San Luis Obispo County
- Solano Community College
- South Bay Workforce Investment Board
Local workforce investment boards can also provide information. To find your local board, go to www.cwib.ca.gov/local_boards. Local community colleges may offer additional green training programs.
To find a college near you, click here.
To find a college near you, click here.
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State of California, Edmund G. Brown Jr., Governor
State of California, Edmund G. Brown Jr., Governor

