CLP-CYLC Partners with Chisholm Legacy Project
Oakland, Ca.,This week Community Learning Partnership (CLP) launched a project with the Chisholm Legacy Project (TCLP) focused on collaborating with CLP faculty and staff in creati
California Youth Leadership Corps (CYLC) is a statewide initiative of the Community Learning Partnership (CLP) preparing community college students to become the next generation of community organizers, advocates, and nonprofit leaders. CYLC collaborates with state and local partners to provide community change learn-and-earn career pathway fellowships across California.
CYLC offers six statewide learn-and-earn pathways in high-impact fields — each one designed to address pressing local needs and prepare students for careers that strengthen their communities.
Through the Public & Community Health career pathway, community college students pursue a postsecondary credential, complete a nine-month paid work-based learning fellowship with community-based organizations, and develop skills in community health outreach, health equity organizing, and advocacy. Fellows work alongside community health workers and advocates to address the social determinants of health shaping their communities.
Through the Community Planning & Economic Development career pathway, community college students pursue a postsecondary credential, complete a nine-month paid work-based learning fellowship with community-based organizations, and develop skills in neighborhood planning, community development, and economic justice. Fellows organize alongside residents, engage local stakeholders, and advance equitable development in the communities they come from.
Through the Community-Based Immigration Legal Services career pathway, community college students pursue a postsecondary credential, complete a nine-month paid work-based learning fellowship with DOJ-recognized community-based immigration legal services organizations, and receive specialized training in immigration law. Fellows build the skills to serve immigrant communities as advocates, practitioners, paralegals, legal assistants, and nonprofit leaders.
Through the Environmental Justice & Sustainability career pathway, community college students pursue a postsecondary credential, complete a nine-month paid work-based learning fellowship with community-based organizations, and develop the organizing, advocacy, and power-building skills that community change careers demand. Fellows deepen their knowledge of environmental justice, climate justice, and community-led solutions, and prepare for careers as advocates, organizers, and nonprofit leaders.
Through the Leadership & Social Change career pathway, community college students pursue a postsecondary credential, complete a nine-month paid work-based learning fellowship with community-based organizations, and develop the organizing, advocacy, and leadership skills that community change careers demand. Fellows lead civic engagement efforts, advocacy projects, and community-based initiatives that build power in their local communities.

Through the Language Justice & Interpretation career pathway, community college students pursue a postsecondary credential, complete a nine-month paid work-based learning fellowship with nonprofit and community partners, and receive specialized training in Indigenous language interpretation. Fellows expand access to legal, health care, educational, and other critical services for Indigenous migrant communities across California.
CYLC is designed to serve community college students between the ages of 18-24.
Interested in enrolling in a CYLC program? Submit a CYLC interest form.
For questions, please contact Alejandra Delgado, Director of Public Relations and Strategic Communications at alejandra@communitylearningpartnership.org.
Preparing historically marginalized students to provide critical services to underserved immigrant communities.
CYLC is working with its nonprofit partners to create two new community change career pathways in the area of immigration: one in community-based immigration legal services and another in language justice. These career pathways will expand the number of well-trained paralegals, legal assistants, language interpreters, and nonprofit leaders in historically marginalized immigrant communities.
The CYLC model offers historically marginalized students unique educational and work-based learning opportunities that allow them to enter communities, change careers and thrive.
CYLC community change learn-and-earn career pathway programs are preparing youth with low incomes – including youth of color, opportunity youth, and immigrant youth – for community change careers. CYLC participants benefit from:
Oakland, Ca.,This week Community Learning Partnership (CLP) launched a project with the Chisholm Legacy Project (TCLP) focused on collaborating with CLP faculty and staff in creati
Oakland, Ca., February 28, 2024– CLINIC-CYLC proudly announces the successful graduation of our second cohort of fellows from the Community-Based Immigration Legal Services Caree
California Youth Leadership Corps (CYLC) partners with CLINIC, Inc, to launch immigration legal services fellowship.
CLP-CYLC Executive Director Rosa M. García testifies before the California Senate Budget and Fiscal Review
CYLC & Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Announce $1 Million Jobs Initiative for Low-Income Youth
Former CA Labor Secretary Holds a Briefing on April 24, 2021 to discuss the importance of CYLC
Interested in learning more? Feel free to reach out and connect!
Rosa M. García, Ed.D.
Executive Director, Community Learning Partnership (CLP) and
California Youth Leadership Corps (CYLC)
Rosa@communitylearningpartnership.org
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