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- EIN 59-3816355
- (714)543-5105
- 801 N. Broadway Santa Ana CA 92701 USA
- www.tallersanjose.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Crime & Law, Crime Prevention, Education, Financial Counseling, Human Services, Vocational & Technical Schools
Mission: Taller San Jose is an innovative Santa Ana program that walks young people out of poverty by offering the hope of a productive and self-reliant future. ---------- About us: Taller San Jose is a highly focused, goal oriented program that helps students develop into self-reliant adults through three key job-training programs in Medical Careers, Office Careers and Construction. These workforce training skills as coupled with intensive job coaching activities from resume writing to job retention strategies and is reinforced with life skills instruction in financial literacy, healthy relationships, and numerous other personal development topics
Results: Since 1995, Taller San Jose has helped more than 4,000 high-risk young adults to restructure their lives, finish high school and develop marketable skills. The program has consistently reduced criminal recidivism and increased youth success at securing living wage employment with corresponding health benefits.
Geographic areas served: Orange County, CA
Programs: Training academies in construction, healthcare careers and business administration: model real-world experiences, pay trainees a weekly $100 stipend and require them to demonstrate that they are responsible and respectful by showing up every day, on time, drug free, dressed professionally and with a good attitude. Tsjs training is conducted over 16-20 weeks and is delivered in a boot camp style to support completion and allow youth to transfer quickly to the workplace and higher wages. Contextualized basic skills remediation, financial assistance for childcare and transportation and 32 hours of both life skills and job readiness training are embedded into the curriculum.
case management: tsj has learned that skills training or employment placement alone do not meet the needs of disconnected youth. Rather, training must include a mix of life skills and supportive services designed to help youth retain their employment. Thus, upon program enrollment, each trainee is matched with a support specialist who, throughout 28 months, works with the youth to help them achieve tangible goals within tsjs steps to success the fundamental building blocks that tsj believes every young person should possess to achieve life stability. These steps to success provide the framework for tsjs case management plan and include six broad categories: education, employment, financial literacy, technological literacy, social and emotional wellness and healthy behaviors.
employment and education pathways: tsjs employment services team works with youth who have completed the training academy and strives to link them to permanent employment or internships. Staff works with youth for up to 24 months after training completion and supports employed youth in continuing to find opportunities for growth/advancement through promotions and job changes. The education pathways team helps youth access on-ramps to post-secondary education, enroll in and persist through apprenticeship and post-secondary degree programs and achieve advanced certifications.