| Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC) will receive a Hispanic-Serving Institutions Assisting Communities grant to develop Project Valley Works Partnership, a workforce and economic development program. The project will provide recruitment, customized vocational training (such as customer service and computer training), English/communication skills, and job placement services. Project Valley Works will assist low- and moderate-income residents, focusing on recent immigrants and refugees with limited English proficiency, the homeless, youth, ex-offenders, displaced workers--people typically locked out of traditional avenues to employment and quality jobs. The goal is preparing clients for 800 living wage jobs with benefits that will be available by summer 2004 at the North Hollywood Redevelopment Mixed-Use project in Los Angeles.
LAVCs job training office, which will spearhead this project, is collaborating with many partners for this initiative: Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, the Valley Economic Development Center, and the Economic Alliance of the San Fernando Valley, the six WorkSource Centers of the San Fernando Valley, and two campus groups: GAIN/CalWorks and the Economic Development Department.
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