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Care Packages for Students at Home

At Los Angeles Job Corps, it doesn't matter if our students are away off center due to the pandemic, We Care. To no surprise, our center sent majority of our students who live on campus back to their homes to keep them safe. We miss having our  students on center but...

Molding Character into Community Service

A few months ago, before the national pandemic, a small group of students had an opportunity to enter a new pottery studio. Throw Clay L.A is a new business that settled in right next door to the center. With the help of the center's Business & Community Liaison,...

Tax Season

It's Tax Season! There's plenty of students that have worked part time jobs and received a W-2 in the mail, but they often don't file their taxes. Why?!!! Most students are not aware of the various tax credits available for low income individuals or for being a...

Roses for Delivery

Valentine's Day is celebrated all sorts of ways and this year students and staff had the opportunity to purchases roses on center. What made buying roses on center better than going to a local store was that all of the revenue generated from sales were going to...

Valentine’s Day Wishes to Congress

This year our center decided to send Valentine's Day Cards to more than member of Congress, we sent multiple cards to 5 different Congressmembers. Due to the size of Los Angeles County and the number of students from different areas, there are 5 Congressional...

More than Coffee with the Congressman

In January, we started off the year with a great meeting with Congressman Jimmy Gomez-CA-34. On a Saturday afternoon, L.A Job Corps's Business Community Liaison took a group of students to attend a community coffee meeting hosted by Congressman Jimmy Gomez....

MTC L.A Job Corps Workforce Council Launch

In November of 2019, MTC Los Angeles Job Corps hosted their first Industry Council meeting, now known as the Workforce Council meeting, where community partners were invited on center as part of the new operator's efforts for the center. The successful launch meeting...

Turning Dreams into Goals

Yunior entered L.A Job Corps in October of 2018 as a minor and need to take Math & Reading classes. Since his enrollment, he has made a 2.4 gain in literacy and 4.7 gain in numeracy. He has also received 2 certifications in Automotive at Maxine Waters Employment...

Auto Student On the Road to Success

Rogelio Meza was born in California but spent much of his younger life living in Mexico. Having lived in Guanajuato, Mexico and completing High School there, Rogelio could not get admitted college in the U.S due to schooling being outside of the U.S. Looking for...