CSULB recognized for lending helping hand
By Tom Harshbarger
Daily Forty-Niner
For more than a year, Cal State Long Beach
has been working with city officials to help financially strapped individuals
get back on their feet.
The CSULB Foundation Office is in charge
of funding for Welfare-to-Work, a program that provides job training and
placement for welfare recipients.
It helps residents wean themselves off
government support while teaching them ways to become self-sufficient.
Last week, the university was rewarded
for its hard work in managing the programís funds.
The Long Beach City Council approved a
one-year, $2.9 million extension for the Welfare-to-Work program at its
meeting on Sept. 14.
"The foundation serves as a disbursement
center for a number of programs," said Paul Bott, director of the CSULB
Center for Career Studies.
The program is offered through a facility
known as the Career Transition Center.
If a Welfare-to Work recipient needs money
for a community college class, they visit the CTC and fill out a request
form.
After the request is approved, the CTC
sends it to the Foundation Office.
The office will then issue the person a
check.
Welfare-to-work is only a small part of
the Foundation Officeís involvement in city programs, Bott said.
Other projects the office is involved in
are community health programs, homeless outreach projects and mental health
services, Bott said.
Some of the services the CTC also provides
include on-the-job training, classroom vocational training, general equivalency
degree training and basic skills training.
It also helps businesses find employees,
get tax credits and set up training programs. |
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