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The Riverside County Board of Supervisors has approved a $4 million program designed to help unemployed residents get work training.
Pathways to Employment will provide adult participants paid stipends and other support services and will be overseen by the county’s Housing, Homelessness Prevention and Workforce Solutions office, according to a statement on the county’s website.
“We initially had public safety in mind for this program, including additional support for the Riverside County Fire Department’s reserve program,” Supervisor Kevin Jeffries said in the statement. “Then we were able to expand the program to several other areas including nonprofits and government agencies.
“The important thing is people will get valuable work experience that we hope will encourage new careers.”
Almost 15 percent of Riverside County’s one-million-member workforce remains unemployed with little prospect of returning to work soon said Heidi Marshall, director of the homeless prevention and workforce solutions office, in the statement.
The board of supervisors approved using federal CARES Act funding for the Pathways to Employment program. Five hundred adult county residents will be recruited to participate in the program, according to the statement.
