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California’s Youth Job Corps offers a second chance at career, higher education

Program goal is to bridge work and education gaps for foster, justice-impacted, low-income youth, and others

Rubicon Landscape Group, which has a community beautification program in the city of Richmond, hires California Volunteers' Youth Job Corps service members.  Credit: (Courtesy of Ebony Richardson/Rubicon Landscape Group)
Rubicon Landscape Group, which has a community beautification program in the city of Richmond, hires California Volunteers’ Youth Job Corps service members. Credit: (Courtesy of Ebony Richardson/Rubicon Landscape Group)
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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.

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