How it Started

In March 2021, Former Mayor Sam Liccardo launched Resilience Corps.

The Resilience Corps seeks to support unemployed and underemployed young adults through employment and work experience opportunities. This jobs program for young adults focused initially on five critical areas of community resilience: pandemic response, environmental resilience, overcoming the learning loss of struggling students, economic recovery, and disaster preparedness. The program now focuses on climate resilience and learning.

San José has many potential jobs doing critically important work to create a more climate-smart and resilient future for our city; allowing residents to get paychecks into pockets while hugely benefitting our community at large.

Joining #Californiansforall youth jobs corps

Resilience Corps San José joined the #CalifornianForAll Youth Jobs Corps Program in 2022. #CaliforniansForAll Youth Jobs Corps has three core goals:

1. Employment:  Increase employment for underserved youth across California.
2. Public Service: Develop meaningful public service career pathways.
3. Challenges: Enhance the capacity of local governments to address challenges in the key areas of food insecurity, climate action, and COVID-19 recovery.

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Resilience Corps Climate Change Pathway

A six-month program where corpsmembers will develop professional skills that will set them up for success, get hands-on, real-life experience working on natural resource management projects in the City of San José with state, county, and local potential employers. This includes critical infrastructure and landscape management projects: park and trail maintenance, wildfire prevention, habitat restoration, watershed protection, tree planting, and other conservation projects.

Corpsmembers will have the opportunity to participate in an externship with a City of San Jose program such as park maintenance. The externship involves on the job experience working in a maintenance program or on a maintenance route where corpsmembers gain valuable skills and insight into City service as well as an understanding of working as part of a team to achieve a common goal.

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Learning Pathway Program

The Resilience Corps Learning Pathway program aims to accelerate learning growth among high-need K-12 students in San José. The program achieves this goal by employing qualified part-time Expanded Learning Associates to work with K-12 students. Through this program, they will gain firsthand experience in the educational, expanded learning, and afterschool profession. The San Jose Public Library Foundation provides financial compensation, training, and professional development.

Expanded learning partner programs, where Associates will work, are aligned to common core anchor standards, prioritizing whole child learning opportunities including social-emotional learning, academics, and physical activity. All programs follow CDC public health and safety guidelines and best practices.

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PROGRAM BENEFITS

• Personal and Career Development Plan: We work with you to make a plan to grow and develop your skills
• Professional Networking: Get to know key people in colleges, government agencies and private employers to expand your professional network
• Industry-recognized certifications: Get safety certifications, driver’s license and other relevant certifications that will qualify you for a career-track job
• College or career scholarships: You can earn education awards for college or apprenticeship programs
• Job and college placement: Once trained and certified, we will work with you to get a living-wage full-time job and/or enroll in college

QUALIFICATIONS 

Participants must meet at least two of the criteria below in order to qualify for the program:

• Between 18 and 30 years old
• Individuals who have not participated in the following programs: 
  
  • #CaliforniansForAll College Program 
  • AmeriCorps 
• May have difficulty finding employment 
• Low-income 
• Unemployed 
• Out of school 
• Justice involved 
• Transitioning from foster care 
• Engaged with mental health or substance abuse system 
• Live in a low-resource census tract 
• First-generation college student 
• Live in San Jose, CA and preference that you reside in the following San Jose areas. Zip codes: 95112, 95122, 95116, 95111, 95127, 95123, 95125, 95121, 95110, 95126, 95136