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EdSource.org: California’s Youth Job Corps offers a second chance at career, higher education
By BETTY MÁRQUEZ ROSALES – Feb 26, 2024
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One of Kaelyn Carter’s ongoing challenges these days is working early hours as a landscaper through the cold, often rainy San Francisco Bay Area weather — a world away from the stagnation he remembers feeling when he first arrived in California less than two years ago.
Then, Carter had just been released from prison after three years of incarceration in Virginia, where he was born. He had made his way to California, which he heard might have more job opportunities.
He’d tried working, but he’d run into more trouble and once again had a warrant out for his arrest. So he turned himself in.
That decision led to significant changes in his life, he said, because his probation officer connected him with his current workplace, which is part job and part rehabilitation program.
The job is with Rubicon Landscape Group, a landscaping company in the city of Richmond that has multiple branches, including a Reentry Success Center which offers a structured 18-week vocational training program where young adults under age 30 who’ve been impacted by the justice system learn about horticulture and landscaping.
Working at Rubicon, Carter said, offered him a community and the means to provide for himself and rebuild his life.
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