As California’s aging population continues to grow, one of the most urgent questions facing senior living is also one of the most practical: Who will provide the care, services, leadership, and support needed to meet the needs of older adults today and in the years ahead?
That question will be at the center of the Argentum Workforce Symposium – Los Angeles: Building Talent Pipelines Into Senior Living, taking place June 25, 2026, at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, with a companion Los Angeles Job Corps Center Employer Experience on June 26, 2026. The event will bring together senior living leaders, community colleges, workforce development partners, training providers, and economic development leaders to address one of California’s most pressing challenges: creating scalable, sustainable workforce pathways into senior living.
Hosted in partnership with Argentum, the California Assisted Living Association, ACG Training, Management & Consulting, and Job Corps, the symposium is designed to be more than a traditional conference. It is a working session built around collaboration, problem-solving, and action. The goal is to connect the people and organizations that can help build real workforce solutions specifically, employers who need talent, educators and training providers who can prepare that talent, and workforce partners who can help support, fund, and scale these efforts.
A Workforce Challenge That Requires Partnership
Senior living providers across the country continue to face significant workforce pressures, from recruitment and retention challenges to the need for clearer career pathways and stronger training models. In California, those pressures are magnified by the size and diversity of the state’s aging population, the complexity of the labor market, and the need to reach new pools of potential workers.
The Los Angeles symposium recognizes that no single organization can solve this challenge alone. Senior living employers understand the roles they need to fill and the skills required to succeed in community settings. Community colleges and training providers understand how to build educational pathways and prepare students for meaningful careers. Workforce development agencies and America’s Job Centers of California connect job seekers to opportunity and support employers with programs, resources, and funding. Economic development leaders understand the broader regional importance of a strong care workforce.
Bringing these groups together is essential. The symposium will focus on how these partners can work side by side to identify workforce gaps, design training pathways, explore funded opportunities, and create stronger connections between education, employment, and long-term career growth in senior living.
What Attendees Will Experience
The Argentum Workforce Symposium – Los Angeles is designed to move beyond discussion and into practical workforce action. Unlike a traditional conference built around presentations alone, this program brings employers together with the organizations that can help connect them to future talent, including workforce boards, Job Corps, community colleges, training providers, and other workforce partners. Argentum describes the event as a convening focused on bridging the gap between employers and top-tier candidates, with partners committed to helping senior living providers connect with the talent they need to thrive.
The program will begin with an executive leadership kickoff, setting the stage for a day focused on the future of senior living careers. Attendees will hear from leaders across the senior living, education, and workforce development sectors about the urgent need to build stronger career pathways into the field, and the opportunity to create models that can be scaled across communities and regions.
A key portion of the symposium will focus on the state of the workforce, including workforce shortages, labor trends, career opportunities, wage pathways, workforce system programs, and funded opportunities. These conversations will help employers and workforce partners better understand both the challenges facing senior living and the practical resources available to support recruitment, training, and placement.
Attendees will also take part in interactive, team-designed challenges and solutions. This is where the symposium becomes especially valuable. Employers, colleges, training providers, workforce development leaders, and economic development partners will work together to identify real workforce barriers, co-design training pathways, explore partnership models, and discuss how available funding can support stronger pipelines into senior living careers.
The two-day experience also includes a Los Angeles Job Corps Center Employer Experience on June 26, giving attendees a closer look at how Job Corps and employer partnerships can help connect motivated career seekers with opportunities in senior living. Together, the symposium and employer experience are intended to help participants move from ideas to next steps, with a sharper understanding of how to build local, sustainable workforce pipelines.
For senior living operators, this is an opportunity to engage directly with partners who can help address staffing needs. For community colleges, training providers, workforce AJCCs, and economic development leaders, it is a chance to better understand the career opportunities within senior living and help shape pathways that prepare job seekers for meaningful, in-demand roles. The result is a working session focused not just on what the workforce challenge looks like, but on what can be done about it.
Why This Event Matters
The senior living workforce is the foundation of resident care, community life, and operational success. Every dining team member, caregiver, housekeeper, maintenance worker, nurse, sales counselor, executive director, and department leader plays a role in creating the experience that residents and families depend on.
Building that workforce requires more than filling immediate openings. It requires a long-term strategy. That means introducing more people to the career possibilities within senior living. It means helping students, job seekers, and career changers understand that senior living offers meaningful work, advancement potential, and the opportunity to make a difference every day. It means creating stronger bridges between employers and training institutions. And it means designing pathways that help workers enter the field, build skills, earn credentials, advance into leadership, and stay.
The Los Angeles Workforce Symposium is significant because it focuses on the full ecosystem needed to make that happen. By convening senior living operators with community colleges, Job Corps, workforce development organizations, and economic development leaders, the event creates space for the kind of cross-sector collaboration that workforce challenges demand. It also reinforces the importance of senior living as a critical part of California’s broader care infrastructure and economic future.
Who Should Attend
The symposium is designed for senior living leaders and partners who are ready to help build the future senior living workforce, including:
- Senior living operators looking for new ways to strengthen recruitment pipelines, build partnerships, and connect with emerging talent.
- Community colleges and training providers interested in aligning programs with senior living career opportunities and employer needs.
- Workforce development partners and America’s Job Centers of California looking to connect job seekers with meaningful, in-demand career pathways.
- Economic development leaders focused on regional workforce readiness, job creation, and meeting the needs of an aging population.
For employers, the event offers a chance to shape solutions, not simply react to challenges. For education and workforce partners, it offers direct insight into the senior living field and the roles, skills, and support systems needed to prepare workers for success.
A Two-Day Opportunity to Connect and Learn
The symposium begins on June 25, 2026, at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, located at 400 W. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90015. The following day, attendees are invited to participate in a Los Angeles Job Corps Center Employer Experience on June 26, 2026, at 1020 S. Olive St., Los Angeles, CA 90015.
Together, the two-day experience provides an opportunity to move from discussion to connection, from understanding workforce needs to seeing firsthand how training, employer engagement, and career pathways can come together.
Register Today
The need for a strong senior living workforce is only growing. Meeting that need will require bold thinking, practical partnerships, and a shared commitment to building pathways that connect people to purpose-driven careers.
The Argentum Workforce Symposium – Los Angeles is an opportunity to be part of that work. Join senior living leaders, educators, workforce development partners, and economic development leaders in Los Angeles this June to help shape scalable workforce solutions for the future of senior living.
To register, visit argentum.org/workforcesymposium.