Dr. Luis Barrera Castañón
Project: Integrated Social Support Services between high school district and community college. Location: College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, CA
A versatile professional with a record of successfully achieving benchmarks and adapting to various functional roles of organizational leadership, management, and coordination. Versed in statewide politics, advocacy and policy development. Direct experience in program design, program implementation, and evaluation with a focus on economic and workforce development sectors and industries. Versed in collective impact and systemic integration planning and modeling with a focus on education, economic and workforce development.
Areas of Focus:
Policy Analysis - K-14 education, criminal justice, youth development, workforce development, adult education and immigration.
Advocacy - Build coalitions of diverse stakeholders and interests to advance policies and programs that build human capital.
Justice Reform - Disassembling the School to Prison Pipeline and creating solutions that put communities first.
Economic and Workforce Development - Creating strategies that use public-private-partnerships to incentivize economic growth.
K-14 Educational Reform - Design and implement cross-system programs and policies that increase student outcomes.
Integrated Student Support Services - Integrating academic and non-academic social support services for youth and adults.
Each community throughout California is unique. Communities want and need individualized and customized programming to tackle their unique challenges. Only by providing this customized assistance can we begin to remove barriers and unleash our people power. --LBC