Job training center planned for Pacoima site.A non profit dropout (1) On magnetic media, a bit that has lost its strength due to a surface defect or recording malfunction. If the bit is in an audio or video file, it might be detected by the error correction circuitry and either corrected or not, but if not, it is often not noticed by the human prevention organization is planning to construct a job training center to target at-risk youth and young adults. Communities in Schools of the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. and Greater Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. has received $650,000 from the City of Los Angeles
Construction is expected to begin within 45 days and the center is scheduled to open in the fall, said Margarita De Escontrias, a regional administrator with the Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles. "This project exemplifies a partnership between the county and city as well as non-profit sector The nonprofit sector, also called the third sector, civic sector or voluntary sector, is a third area of an economy, distinct from the public sector and the private sector. It is made up of all of the non-profit organizations in the economy. and labor unions," De Escontrias said. Three county-owned buildings will be demolished to make way for the 5,037-square foot building at the Consolidated Fire Protection District Pacoima Complex. The new building will have offices, a conference room, classrooms, a computer lab and interview rooms. The county's probation department gang unit will also use the building. Laborers International Union of North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. Local No. 300 will provide free project clean up, parking and paving; and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) has donated 17 computers. Communities in Schools is a national, non profit drop out prevention organization. L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky Zev Yaroslavsky (born December 21, 1948) is a Los Angeles County politician. He served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1975 until 1994, when he was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. He was preceded in both offices by Edmund D. Edelman. , who assisted in providing some of the money, has worked with the local Communities in Schools chapter and its director. Among the skills to be taught at the center are how to apply for a job, how to dress for an interview and what to expect in a workplace environment when hired, Yaroslavsky said. "Those are things that we who are working take for granted," Yaroslavsky said. "People who have never been in that world need to be told." Los Angeles City Councilman Alex Padilla, whose district includes Pacoima, supports the project because it serves a clientele often considered to be unreachable. Job training is good for the overall economy in that money earned through a job can be used to buy a home or purchase goods, Padilla said. "Through (Communities in Schools) partnership with labor unions in the building trades they give an opportunity to teach valuable and marketable job skills to folks who may not have led a healthy lifestyle up to this point but who want to change," Padilla said. MARK R. MADLER Staff Reporter |
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