VOLUME 77, ISSUE 5 | WWW.ELACCAMPUSNEWS.COM | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2019 | SINGLE COPY FREE - ADDITIONAL COPIES 50 CENTS
ELAC opens first job center on campus
America’s Job Center of California offers students opportunities and career paths BY GUSTAVO BUENROSTRO Staff Writer The first ob center on campus is available for students and the community as a collaborative effort between ast os ngeles College and os ngeles County. hen students walk through those doors, it’s not ust to help with preparing them, but to plant the seeds of possibility. or students to say can do this,’ istrict Chancellor rancisco odriguez said. The center is called merica’s ob Center of California. ndra offman, president of the oard of Trustees, said the center is uni ue because its sole purpose is to help provide employment and training opportunities for C students. eo edina, associate professor at C and host of the event, said the center is going to help prepare local talent for careers in the st century. The CC has multiple programs for students facing various circumstances in life. There is a program called the Countywide outh ridges rogram that provides internship opportunities which can one day lead to employment. The programs are meant to provide training for students and the county has committed to helping with the placement. ob centers like this work. am a living testimony to that, edina said. The center has three levels of services. The first is work
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CUT THE RIBBON—Luna Perez, an ELAC student, cuts the ribbon at the grand opening of the America’s Job Center of California. Francisco Rodriguez, Los Angeles Community College District Chancellor, and Raul Rodriguez, ELAC interim president were also present. based learning, where they have supportive services like transportation assistance. t also has paid work e periences and personal enrichment training. The second level is academic and career development which
includes the services provided by the first level as well as workshops, career planning, paid and unpaid work e perience as well as other additional services like mentoring and counseling services. The third level is advanced
career services and can build on the other two levels or stand alone. This level provides additional training as well as transitional obs. ach level has outcomes that determine work readiness, post secondary education,
advanced training and permanent unsubsidized employment. ice resident of orkforce ducation rmida rnelas said that the CC has its own dedicated faculty and staff. he said there are plans to have
an CC in the outh ate campus as well. he said that before, they would look at students at different moments of their college life. ith the CC, they will now look at students’ college lives as a whole, providing support where they need it. edina introduced una erez, a first year college student, who spoke about her success story. erez said that in , she went to the e ican nited tates border with her younger brother. border agent separated her from her brother and sent them to the freezer, a detention center for teenagers. he said all she could think about while she was there was her brother. he came to the nited tates and started high school. he said she had a lot of help from the ob center. n ecember of , she was reunited with her mother, who was already in the . ., and eventually reunited with her brother as well. he began attending C this semester and is taking workshops where she will eventually be placed on the engineering path. hope that my story inspires others with similar situations, erez said. The ions ride ung u, a dance school that specializes in martial arts and lion dance performed at the beginning of the event. uring and after the opening of the CC, a workforce resource fair was available to students to get information on any of the workforce related classes.
SAAVE, Women’s Center march against domestic violence BY RUSSEL NAVARRETTE Staff Writer The familiar sound of defiant chants filled the air on campus on ct. . ey hey, ho ho, the patriarchy has got to go, chanted the ast os ngeles College omen’s Center and the e ual ssault wareness iolence ducation team during the nd annual u eres de az omestic wareness march.
emonstrators gathered at the luminar cademy near the corner of ednik venue and Cesar Chavez venue. eople carried signs denouncing domestic violence and were given a pink sheet of paper that had the chants they were going to use like, The people united will never be defeated l pueblo unido, amas sera vencido The crowd marched, chanted and cheered down Cesar Chavez venue to ast os ngeles
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WOMEN UNITED—Members of the ELAC Sexual Assult Awareness Violence Education team march alongside members of the community through East Los Angeles on Oct. 3.
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COME TOGETHER—Sam Garcia leads the chants as members of the community and SAAVE SIGNS OF CHANGE—Protesters carried signs and chanted march around ELAC to bring awareness to domestic violence on Oct. 3.
News Briefs
SAAVE Film Screening
“Sin by Silence” will be shown on Thursday at 12:15 p.m. in the S2 Recital Hall.
against domestic violence on the ELAC main campus Oct. 3.
Domestic Violence Course
SAAVE will host a course on domestic violence and intimate partner violence on Thursday from 6-7 p.m. in F7-226.
College where they would end the march with a vigil to honor survivors and those who did not survive domestic violence. ne of the supporters heard of the march through acebook and participated to honor his loved ones. The march also brought two women together who recognized each other from prison. The two were bystanders at first, but ended up participating in the discourse. ndrea wens, team co chair and professor in the kinesiology department at C, stated, e have so many students and people on campus that have e perienced domestic violence. ur role is to spread as much awareness as possible. ther members from the C that were in the march and vigil uth ivera, ebeca elendez, rlene Torres, and founder of the team in arilyn aad. arbara appus began the vigil with a moment of silence and an opening speech, very person is entitled to a piece of mind, a life free of violence. e are here to support you. peak up. There were also live performances of dance, music and people sharing their own personal e periences with domestic abuse. C provides services for survivors of domestic abuse and se ual assault in the building on the third oor. They provide services such as crisis support, housing, parenting classes and other services. pcoming events for domestic violence awareness month include events on Thursday ct. th, oving with Consent conversation about safer se and prevention at from to p.m. and Tuesday ct. nd, Cycle of omestic iolence and lly Tips at from to p.m.
Library Workshop
The ELAC library will host a workshop to practice creating proper MLA citations on Oct. 14 in F3-101.