California’s high-profile solar industry is helping to drive development of a new lesson for ValleyBuild’s apprenticeship readiness training program in Fresno.
A new and successful partnership in San Joaquin County is bringing the ValleyBuild program into the jail, where nearly 20 inmates have completed the introductory training in building and construction trades.
Rural Fresno County residents may find an easier path to ValleyBuild training thanks to a variety of supportive services along with a new transportation option in Biola.
Even with two and sometimes three jobs, Nidia Chicas struggled to help support her family.
Nidia had to tell her seven children “no” more times than she liked. She worried about making rent and hated to miss time with her family due to work or exhaustion.