WIA program is funded through the county of San Bernardino’s Investment Board that focuses on building a local workforce and providing youth with vocational/occupational and educational training that leads to employment.
The PAL Center’s WIA Youth Program is a structured “hands on” program that is intended to assist low-income youth with serious barriers to employment, to become self-sufficient through vocational and educational training. The WIA program provides youth with structured curriculum and activities that help youth achieve academic and employment success. Opportunities include:

• Effective and comprehensive activities, including a variety of options for improving educational and skill competencies, and effective connections to employers
• Ongoing mentoring opportunities with adults committed to providing such opportunities
• Vocational/Occupational training leading to success in the workforce
• Incentives for recognition and achievement
• Opportunities and activities related to leadership development, decision-making, citizenship, and community service
• Paid Work Experience in various career ladder fields leading to unsubsidized employment

The following are WIA eligibility requirements:

• 18-21 years of age
• One or more of the following:
• Basic skills deficient
• High School Dropout
• Homeless, runaway or foster child
• Offender
• Parenting Youth
• Assistance needed to complete educational program, or to secure employment.
• Low-Income
• Receive public assistance
• Poverty line or 70% lower living standard income level

WIA Serves:

• Youth who can, with assistance, reasonably be expected to
• Attain high school-level reading and math skills
• Attain a high school diploma or its equivalent, an industry-standard certificate, or a post-secondary degree
• Be successful in unsubsidized employment and/or post-secondary education or advanced training

Please contact us for more information at (909) 887-7002 and ask for Ms. Estrada or Mrs. White