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Causes: Employment Preparation & Procurement, Job Training
Mission: To provide job training and educational opportunities to young adults, in the fields of conservation, recycling, and community service.
Programs: Recycling - urban corps of san diego county provides recycling services to large entertainment venues and community events. This program provides employment income and job training for corpsmembers. Over 200 business and government offices received such services.
environmental - the environmental projects division trains young adults to protect and maintain the urban environment corpsmembers learn about san diego's natural environment, and help restore and enhance the ecosystems, control erosions, and restore habitat. Corpsmembers learn to use various hand tools, power tools, and light equipment.
community improvement services - the corps contracts with san diego business improvement district to conduct services, such as sidewalk cleaning, graffiti removal, landscape maintenance, irrigation repair, and removal of illegal dump sites.
urban forestry