Community Charitable Service Center
About SVCCSC
Our Mission
Community Charitable Service (CCS) Center, a newly established 501 C
(3) Non-Profit Organization, is dedicated to training troubled youths
without a high school education, as well as disadvantaged adults. Our goal is to
provide the skills they need to find gainful employment. Our program is intended to provide each
participant with the self-esteem and self-confidence they need to improve
their economic status and become more productive within the community.
Our program is designed to change behaviors among youths without a
high school education and disadvantaged adults. By equipping them
with competitive job skills, we show them that any circumstances can be overcome.
Youth-oriented SVCCS programs are geared to assist and help direct those vulnerable to gang activity. The Bay Area is known to have an increasing
crime rate due to the amount of gang activy. Too often youth
look to gangs when they find no other place to turn. With the recent layoff of park and
recreational employees, youth gang activity has intensified. What programs did exist will no longer be offered
to these youths and their families. The majority
of people affected by this problem ranged in age from 13-21. These
youth have been identified as gang involved individuals who are on
probation or have been court ordered to enroll in alternative programs.
The recent cut backs to the probation department have effected the
supervision of gang prone youth to a bare minimum.
Successful execution of this program is expected to re-establish
the necessary confidence and self-esteem amongst young people and encourage
them to get out of bad situations to become productive, contributing adults.
Criteria and Racial Breakdown
Students for this program will be from lower-income minority backgrounds in the Bay Area. A high school dropout in this program is defined as a low-income youth or teenager with no high school diploma or equivalent. Each student enrolled in this program must demonstrate a desire to acquire the skills needed for gainful employment.
The breakdown is as follows:
- African-American: 13%
- Asian-American: 30%
- Caucasian: 20%
- Hispanic: 35%
- Native American: 2%
The Program
Some of the skills that we train in are:
- Basic Computing
- Bookkeeping
- Management
- Nursing Skills
- Rural and Community Development
- Soft Skills
At the end of the training program, collaborating technical,
business, and social organizations will hire the 20 graduating students
under CCS Center job training services program requirements. These
graduating students will be required to be on the job for at least 90
days. If they successfully complete the 90 days, the student will then
be required to complete a 9-month program requirement. After successful
completion of these requirements, the student will be awarded a
certificate of completion. Students who fail to complete these
requirements will be given an additional three months to complete the
requirements. If at this time a student is still unable to complete
such requirements, employment counseling specialist will be called in
to help the student in whatever way needed to ensure that the student
would benefit from the program.
There will be about one hundred students graduating from the program a
year. These students will be required to be on the job as stated. This
program is expected therefore to offer employment opportunities to
about one hundred low-income youths and adults without a high school education,
and monitor the progress of these students to see if additional help is
needed.