Fund allocated to help youth employment in Stockton

  • 2022-12-30
The City Council of Stockton has pledged $2.5m to four local organizations to enable them to provide job placements.

Thew CaliforniansForAll Youth Workforce Grant Program is providing the funding which will enable the city to pilot a youth workforce development program. Stockton received a total amount of $4.3m and will use the remaining amount to create a summer jobs program that will provide minimum wage jobs in the city to about 225 high school age people. Accompanying these jobs will be skill-building and education for a month.

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Those organizations selected as subgrantees for the program will be the Greater Valley Conservation Corps, Rising Sun Center for Opportunity, Parents by Choice, and San Joaquin A+, which will serve the youth of Stockton. The average wage will be between $17 and $18 an hour.

Harry Black, City Manager, said these young people will be earning money and learning at the same time. He added that the young people of the city lost so much over the past two years, so it is important that the city makes such an investment in them now.

Kevin Lincoln, Mayor of Stockton, said that the pilot program needs to work as it should so that additional funding can be pursued for the future generations of the city.