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TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A $1 cardinal assistance from the Employment Development Department, EDD, is helping Tulare County farmworkers and their families prosecute precocious careers successful Agriculture.
The Workforce Investment Board and Employment Connection are providing services designed to enactment families and support them successful their communities done their Ag Skills Advancement program.
"Every idiosyncratic is treated arsenic an individual, due to the fact that everyone has their ain experience, everyone has antithetic goals, truthful we effort to promote ourselves and ourselves to supply the services that they expect," explains Dalila Silva, with Employment Connection.
Tulare County is 1 of 3 counties successful the authorities that received backing for this program.
The collaborative effort has helped dozens since it began successful July 2024.
Their services see vocation coaching, childcare and scholarships up to $5,000.
Support services besides see transportation, interrogation attire and assemblage exertion help.
It's thing 1 Tulare County parent hopes tin assistance motorboat her caller vocation path.
She says, "Watching my kids turn up and proceed with their acquisition and achieving their goals made maine privation to proceed with excavation and I cognize it's not excessively late, truthful I'm doing it myself."
Youth arsenic young arsenic 16 tin question services.
The younker programme focuses connected radical ages 16 to 24. The Adult Program helps those 24 and older.
The extremity is to assistance easiness fiscal burdens.
Helping physique the adjacent procreation of leaders successful the ag-industry.
"We person been operating this assistance for a small implicit a year. We person been beauteous palmy successful placing individuals successful either upscaling their position, oregon marque caller positions, oregon marque caller training, specified arsenic agriculture, wellness care, logistics," mentions Desiree Linderos, Program Coordinator astatine Workforce Investment Board.
The archetypal escaped accusation league starts Thursday, November 6, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., astatine 54 N. Main Street, Porterville, CA.
The assistance runs done September 2026.
You bash request to bring your driver's licence oregon ID, Social Security card, and details connected whether oregon not you person immoderate nationalist assistance.
For much accusation connected the Ag-Skills Advancement Program, aggregate resources and aboriginal sessions, you tin sojourn here.
You tin besides sojourn successful idiosyncratic astatine their assorted locations; determination are implicit a twelve successful Tulare County listed here.
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