Program Boosts Job Training
Eighty-nine Ventura County residents between the ages of 22 and 30 will receive 10 weeks of vocational training thanks to an allocation of $5 million distributed by the federal departments of Labor and Commerce in Southern California.
The program, called Joblinks, will fund a training program in the building trades. It will be administered in Ventura County by the Job Training Policy and the Building and Construction Trades councils.
Ventura County and other agencies that were awarded more than $200,000 by the Federal Emergency Management Administration for earthquake repair will be required to hire two Joblinks participants for every worker hired for federally funded repair jobs.
Among the projects expected to use Joblinks workers is the repair of Simi Valley High School cafeteria and auditorium.
Those interested in signing up for the program can call 981-8779.
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