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Voice of the Fields California
March 2019
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Volume 29, Number 3
TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
Are you looking for training opportunities?
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HE CALIFORNIA EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPMENT Department (EDD) is part of a statewide collaborative network that includes employers, community-based organizations, educators, state and local government agencies, and training providers. This network has employment and training services and programs available to qualified job seekers including: laid off workers, youth, workers looking for better opportunities, veterans, and individuals with disabilities. EDD services and information are at no cost to the workers.
Visit your nearest America’s Job Center of CaliforniaSM (AJCC), to get information on job search training. To find the nearest AJCC job center visit edd.ca.gov/Office Locator and ask to speak with an EDD representative. In this issue, we are featuring California Human Development, one of the many training opportunities, which could be combined with the support of other qualifying EDD services.
California Human Development
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ALIFORNIA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT (CHD) is a non-profit organization and a leader in the War on Poverty for nearly five decades. CHD was first inspired in service to California’s farmworkers across the state. CHD now services people of low income from many walks of life. CHD provides services to 25,000 individuals located in 31 counties throughout California. They provide training and job placement, affordable housing, disability, immigration, social and drug-free living services. income. The centers give these indiTraining & Jobs TRAINING: CHD believe that people have the right to earn a living and with education and training it is possible. CHD offers Anthony Soto Training (ASET) Centers. These centers help farmworkers, farmworker family members, and other with low
viduals an opportunity to build their skills and obtain stable, full-time employment at a living wage. Anthony Soto Employment Training Centers offer quality vocational skills training, workplace and life skill development to farmworkers
and adults of all backgrounds and educational levels. Programs offered are: Assembly & Fabrication, Building Construction, Cashiering and Inventory Control Clerk, Forklift Operation and Safety, Introduction to Computers, Mathematics, Office Occupations, Payroll Clerk, Security Officer, Shipping and Receiving, Spanish Adult Literacy, Telecommunications Line Installer, Truck Driver, Vocational English as a Second Language, and Welding. To find your local center and the programs they offer call (916) 371-8330. Continued on next page