Since 2001, CCEP, a nonprofit economic development corporation operating in the Contra Costa/East Bay area, has managed the STEM Workforce Initiative and, through The Initiative, has served as an intermediary in the East Bay focused on developing the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) workforce.

For more than a decade, its role has been to convene, connect, communicate, collaborate and coordinate sustained bridging activities between business and education that align high school reform strategies with local economic development needs that focus on the long-term workforce pipeline into the high-wage, high-skill, high-demand careers available now or projected in the East Bay region.

The vision of the STEM Workforce Initiative is to accomplish this through the creation of a seamless system of transition for students from high school to purposeful post-secondary education (without remediation), training and careers connected to real people doing real things in our local economy.

For more information, contact the STEM Workforce Initiative Director:

April Treece
1355 Willow Way - Suite 253
Concord, CA 94520
ccep@cococo.org | 925-672-3759