Automotive restoration training, photo by Mathias Reding, Creative Commons
LOS ANGELES – The Justice, Care and Opportunities Department or JCOD is partnering with legendary automobile customization and repair shop West Coast Customs or WCC to provide training and certification to system-impacted individuals.
The partnership began at the 2024 LA Auto Show, where JCOD and WCC came together to facilitate a nine-day automotive restoration training workshop for justice-impacted individuals. The collaboration was so successful that both sides agreed to continue programming.
This partnership offers a 12-week program for 18 participants, who receive hands-on experience in metal fabrication, wrap and tint, upholstery, electronics, and various other automotive disciplines. Graduates will receive a Certification of Completion in automotive customization and restoration. Training is taking place at West Coast Customs in Burbank, California.
Participating, students must be justice-system or foster-system impacted, be 18+, enrolled in a JCOD program (reentry intensive case management services, skills and employment for the careers of tomorrow, rapid diversion program, youth overcoming, providing opportunities for women in reentry, etc,), and have a government ID and a social security card.
This first cohort began on Feb.10. The target start date for Cohort 2 is in June, 2025.
Details: For more information about the program or to apply, email Joseph Wise-Wiley at jwise-wiley@jcod.lacounty.gov
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