Los Angeles Conservation Corps: Still Working in the Time of Virus

The Los Angeles Conservation Corps provides at-risk young adults and school-aged youth with opportunities for success through job skills training, education and work experience with an emphasis on conservation and service projects that benefit the community. In the time of the Coronavirus, they’ve been asked by California Gavin Newsom to step up to the challenge of the time and pitch in to be first responders.

Wendy Butts, CEO of the Los Angeles Conservation Corps, wrote on their website, how the “Conservation corps around the country, including the LA Conservation Corps, has repeatedly stepped up to support our communities in times of crisis…” This is one of those times. Corps members are being asked to not only continue the work they do but to also pitch in wherever they are needed.

Wendy Butts goes on to emphasize that the safety and security of the young people who make up the Los Angeles Conservation Corps will remain their top priority.

“We will continue to work on any projects that we can while following the guidance of our public health officials in order to be able to provide Corps members with the paychecks they count on.”

Toward that end, Melissa Morgan, Marketing Manager for the Conservation Corps, produced a podcast for the young Corps members on how they can remain safe while doing their jobs. Morgan interviewed Nurse Tricia Culverhouse in the podcast. A mental health professional is next in the queue for a podcast.

More on the Los Angeles Conservation Corps

“The Los Angeles Conservation Corps is an environmentally focused youth development organization. We transform the lives of youth from disadvantaged communities through work and education. Work projects improve the quality of life for our communities and protect the environment for future generations.

Our programs equip young Corps members with life skills and work experience by employing them in a variety of conservation projects.  Some of those projects include:

• building parks and community gardens,
• planting trees,
• refurbishing hiking trails,
• removing graffiti, and
• cleaning alleyways.

We provide them with high school education in our affiliated charter school and the support services and case management they need to remove the barriers to success. Our goal is to give under-served young adults the chance for a meaningful, living-wage job with a career pathway or college or vocational school experience with future prospects for employment.”

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