California Youth Leadership Corps CYLC
Student Testimonials

Check out what our CYLC students are up to!

About California Youth Leadership Corps CYLC

California Youth Leadership Corps (CYLC), a unique statewide initiative of the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, CLP, selected community colleges, social justice organizations and private philanthropy, was created as a response to the global pandemic and the economic crisis. 

CYLC prepares historically marginalized youth to become community organizers and change agents in their local communities. CYLC is collaborating with its state and local partners to scale up community change learn-and-earn career pathways across California. 

CYLC has launched community change career pathways in the cities of Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, Fresno, and Cupertino/San Jose.

 

Pictured in image above from left to right:
Genet Areda, CYLC Program Director, Brenda Carrillo, DeAnza Program Lead, Luis Guerra, CLINIC Strategic Capacity Officer, Rudy Cuevas, DeAnza Student, Angelina Rodriguez, CBO Concrete Rose Coalition, Raymond Lee Goins, DeAnza Student.

CYLC Student and Alumni Testimonials

Check out what our CYLC Students and Alumni are up to!

Christian Espinoza is an amazing alumni from our Immigration Legal Services Pathway Fellowship Program at San Bernardino Valley College who will soon be applying to law school.

Janae Quarles is an alumni from our Immigration Legal Services Pathway Fellowship Program at Fresno City College who will be attending law school in the Fall!

Jesus Madrigal is a brilliant student fellow from our Community Action Leadership Academy (CALA) at Riverside City College (RCC) doing hands-on learning at Starting Over Inc.

Victoria Gamez is an amazing student fellow from CYLC-Fresno City College Community Change Program who is currently learning at Fresno Metro Ministry.

Jessica Zenteno is a brilliant student fellow actively learning at Riverside Area Rape Crisis Center and First Serv Foundation as part of our Community Action Leadership Academy (CALA) at Riverside City College (RCC).

Juan Carlos Luis Bonilla Ventura is a brilliant student fellow developing a group workshop for youths at Mi Centro, an organization addressing the needs of the Latine/LGBTQ communities in Boyle Heights and surrounding communities.

Jennifer Balino is an outstanding student fellow from our Community Change Program at Fresno City College and serves as a fellow at the Central Valley Worker Center.

Interested in Participating in CYLC?

CYLC programs currently operate at De Anza College, Riverside City College, Fresno City College, East Los Angeles College, and Los Angeles Trade Tech College. CYLC is designed to serve community college students with low incomes, students of color, and immigrant youth primarily between the ages of 18-24. This includes Opportunity Youth – youth who face barriers to education and employment due to poverty/lack of opportunity, immigration status/DACA, and other issues. DACA recipients are eligible to participate.

Interested in enrolling in a CYLC program? Click on the landing page below for a program near you and submit an interest form. For questions, please contact CYLC Executive Director Rosa M. García at rosa@communitylearningpartnership.org

See Us in Action

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Learn More About CYLC

Interested in learning more? Feel free to reach out and connect!

Rosa M. García, Ed.D.
(She/Her/Ella)
Executive Director, Community Learning Partnership (CLP) and
California Youth Leadership Corps (CYLC)
Rosa@communitylearningpartnership.org
(m) 510-375-6340

Special Thanks to Our CYLC Funding Partners

We are proud to partner and collaborate with these partners to make CYLC possible

The Broad Foundation
The California Department of Social Services
The California Endowment
The California Labor and Workforce Development Agency
The California Workforce Development Board
The Conrad Hilton Foundation
The Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund
The Grove Foundation
The Tides Foundations