The local workforce development board for San Diego County, delivering through America Job Center of California sites. It funds occupational training for eligible participants and can subsidize on-the-job training and paid work experience.
This is the layer underneath the crew models in cards 50 and 51 rather than an alternative to them. It does not pay for vegetation work; it reduces what the crew costs the grant, which improves the acres-per-dollar figure that CAL FIRE evaluates under its budget reasonableness criterion.
Approach it once there is a crew concept and an employer of record, not before. The conversation is much shorter when the answer to what job are we training people for already exists.