L.A. County Funds School Jobs Center
Mission College has received an $850,000 grant from Los Angeles County to continue its One Stop Center, a job-training program for long-term unemployed, displaced and unskilled workers.
The allocation will allow 200 adults to train for jobs in tourism, hospitality, computer technology, security operations, drafting, plumbing, retail merchandising, and child and elder care, said Penny Young, director of the college’s Business and Professional Center, which oversees the program.
“The county’s Private Industry Council provides these dollars so participants receive training and all related services at no cost to them,†Young said.
Eligible participants include unskilled youth and workers 55 and older, as well as long-term unemployed and displaced workers.
Once accepted into the program, Young said, One Stop Center counselors will help students identify potential career paths and help them hone their basic academic skills.
The One Stop Center, which opened in November 1995, trained 175 students in the 1996-97 academic year, Young said.
Potential students may attend one of two orientation sessions set for 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. Thursday at the college’s Kalisher campus, 1300 San Fernando Road in San Fernando.
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