School Receives Grant for Jobs Program

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.

Eligible participants include unskilled youth and workers 55 and older, she said, 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.

From there, Young said, students will begin their chosen occupational training program. Programs range in length from 12 to 19 weeks. After completing the program, counselors will assist students with job placement.

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 scheduled for 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. Thursday at the college’s Kalisher campus, 1300 San Fernando Road at Kalisher Street in San Fernando.

For more information, call (818) 837-2236.