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Instructor Felicidad Villegas teaches AYES interns how to search for job opportunities and how to work with a smile.
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"If Archdiocesan Youth Employment had not given me the opportunity and tools to succeed, my life would have been more difficult. I had the encouragement of my family, school and AYES. They believed in me."
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| [Fernando Fernandez, in 1985, AYES intern and teacher’s aide; in 2003, Professor of Mathematics at East Los Angeles College] |
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| •Catholic Charities’ Archdiocesan Youth Employment Services (AYES) program, and its governmental, business, and non-profit partners, served 2,800 youth, who received paid internships, education, counseling, and career services. Wages and support services for AYES program participants amounted to $2.1 million. Support services included clothing, childcare, transportation and vocational training (i.e., tuition, books, union dues). |
| •AYES received a grant from the County of Los Angeles to transition youth from probation camps into jobs. |
•The College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita offers AYESsponsored older youth an online one-credit college course in Customer Service Training. Eighteen students completed the pilot class and 15 youth registered for the next session; they accessed lectures, class-notes and quizzes via the Internet.
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| •In the summer months, the AYES program, in collaboration with WIA, CalWORKs and the City of Los Angeles, provides approximately 1,250 summer jobs for disadvantaged youth who are placed in non-profit, forprofit, and public employment positions. Young people are grateful for gaining work experience and earning some personal income. |
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