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Headquarters:
Forest Service Job Corps National Office
1617 Cole Blvd, Building 17
Lakewood, Colorado
80401
US Forest Service Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers
FOUNDED IN: 1965
MISSION
Job Corps, the nation’s largest youth training program, provides disadvantaged and underrepresented youth, ages 16 to 24, with essential academic, career, and life skills training to become employable, independent, and placed in meaningful jobs or further education. Forest Service Civilian Conservation Centers, primarily located in rural America, offer students the same benefits, along with conservation skills training, work experience on public lands, opportunities to serve local communities, and wildland fire training to respond to natural disasters.
Forest Service Job Corps – Changing Lives, Giving Back
DESCRIPTION
What are Forest Service Civilian Conservation Centers?
Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers (CCCs) are associated with national forests or grasslands and are operated by the Forest Service in partnership with the U.S. Department of Labor.
Civilian Conservation Centers provide youth ages 16 to 24 to the opportunity to earn high school diplomas, GEDs, and certifications in traditional vocational trades, including carpentry, welding, heavy equipment operations, and natural resources trades such as forestry, firefighting, and urban forestry.
Civilian Conservation Centers serve approximately 3,800 students each year
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When and why were Civilian Conservation Centers established?
Job Corps was created in 1964 by the Economic Opportunity Act and is reauthorized through Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) of 2014.
The U.S. Forest Service, modeling the program after the Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps, played a central role in the creation of Job Corps.
Civilian Conservation Centers are the only Job Corps centers authorized through the 2014 WIOA to conserve, develop, or manage public natural resources and public recreation areas, develop community projects in the public interest, and respond to natural disasters.
S. Forest Service Deputy Chief Clare Hendee, an original designer of Job Corps, wrote
“The immediate concern of Job Corps is to salvage human lives now passing through a critical state, a period in which opportunity lost is lost forever. The added prospect of salvaging and developing neglected natural resources makes the program doubly worthy.”
Who are Civilian Conservation Center students?
Civilian Conservation Center enrollees want to make positive changes in their lives and gain the education, career technical skills and work experience to obtain and keep a living wage job.
Approximately 55% of students are high school dropouts without a high school diploma.
Enrollees reflect a snapshot of our nation’s diversity. They reach across the spectrum of race, gender, and ethnicity. Civilian Conservation Centers enlist the skills, abilities, and talents of these American citizens.
Historically, approximately 85 percent of Job Corps graduates have started new careers, enrolled in higher education programs or have enlisted in the military.
Civilian Conservation Centers are a rare alignment of solutions to the challenges of youth unemployment, access to resources for underrepresented communities, and the urgent need to protect our nation’s natural resources. They harness the enormous potential of young people, helping them fulfill their potential while changing their lives, the lives of their families and, through civic engagement, their communities. Civilian Conservation Centers embody the Forest Service mission, “Caring for land and serving people.”
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For more information on Forest Service Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers, inquire at: “FS-Forest Service Job Corps Information (SM.FS.fsjobcorps@usda.gov)”?