California Association of Local Conservation Corps

A huge thank you to @SenMariaEDurazo, and to the 17 additional Senators and Assemblymembers who signed on in support, for championing a legislative budget request to appropriate $25M annually to the California Conservation Corps and Local Conservation Corps. This proposed investment would expand career pathways for young adults while supporting important climate resilience projects across California. We’re so grateful for your support for the conservation corps and the next generation of California’s climate workforce, and hope to be celebrating success later this year 🤞🏽! #LocalCorps #ClimateWorkforce #CaliforniaClimate #GGRF

Huge congrats to Marx A., Sonoma Corpsmember of the Year! 🏆 Since Feb 2024, Marx earned his HS diploma and became a Firefighter Type 1 & Sawyer 3 pro with @CCNorthBay. He is part of the workforce protecting California from wildfire risk. 🔥🛡️ #WildfireResilience #WorkforceDevelopment #SonomaCounty

The 14 local corps came together this week to collaborate and discuss our continued work providing valuable services and support to corpsmembers and communities throughout California. Special thanks to our partners at @TheCorpsNetwork, California Conservation Corps, @CAStateParksOHV, @CalRecycle, and Local Corps Collective for joining us. We are stronger together!

Concrete walls ➡️ Thriving wetlands. 🌾 Our CCNorthBay crews are restoring Corte Madera Creek to protect against sea-level rise. High-impact climate resilience work, powered by the next generation of conservation leaders. #ClimateAction #30x30CA #Prop4 #Marin

Thank you, @SenJohnLaird, for recognizing the California Conservation Corps and its 50th Anniversary on the Senate Floor today! For 50 years, the CCC has been a national leader in natural resource protection and young adult empowerment. We’re grateful for their partnership and proud to work alongside them in advancing conservation and workforce opportunities across California. Thank you @SenMariaEDurazo and @SenBrianJones, for your comments and continued support! #CALCC #CaliforniaConservationCorps #CCC50 #ConservationCareers

Meet Cesar V., Marin Corpsmember of the Year! 💯 He earned his HS diploma & 4+ professional certifications while serving with @CCNorthBay. Now, he’s a pro Landscape Restoration Tech. This is how Local Corps build CA’s middle class! 🛠️💪 #GreenWorkforce #LocalImpact

Feeling energized after CA’s first-ever Outdoors for All Convening, hosted @CalNatResources! Loved hearing about the state’s commitment to workforce prioritization and the impact of the Outdoors for All Initiative in creating pathways into conservation careers. Excited to keep the momentum going! #OutdoorsForAll #CALCC #WorkforceDevelopment

#CorpsAtWork: Joseph Anderson Meet Joseph Anderson, a @SacramentoCorps alum whose dedication, grit, and leadership helped turn service into a career. As a corpsmember at SRCC, Joseph showed up every day ready to work, learn, and take on challenges. Through the California Conservation Corps Backcountry Trails Program, he spent months living and working in remote landscapes completing projects from rerouting trails on Mt. Tamalpais to building rock steps deep in Sequoia National Park’s backcountry. Joseph helped clear brush, build new tread, widen trails, shovel snow at high elevations, and construct 25 rock steps in Sequoia alone, contributing to more than 170 steps built by his crew to make trails safer and more accessible for the public. Living at spike and backcountry camps, week after week, he gained hands-on conservation skills, teamwork experience, and confidence that carried far beyond the trail. Today, Joseph is putting those skills to work as a newly hired employee with the @NatlParkService, protecting public lands and serving communities on a national scale. His journey is a powerful reminder of why the Corps matters: it creates real opportunities, builds leaders, and helps corpsmembers turn hard work into lasting careers. This is what service to career looks like. This is #CorpsAtWork. #CALCC #CorpsStrong #LocalCorps

#CorpsAtWork Spotlight: Christie Nolasco & Letty Torres This story is what the Corps is all about: growth, leadership, and support that comes full circle. Christie Nolasco, a former Corpsmember turned supervisor at @LACorps, embodies the impact of investing in people. Through the Corpsmember Development Program, she helps Corpsmembers like Letty Torres build confidence, leadership skills, and momentum toward their goals. Letty’s journey reflects everything the program strives for. With encouragement, positivity, and steady support, she excelled; growing as a leader and showing what’s possible when Corpsmembers are given the tools and trust to succeed. As Christie shared, leadership is one of Letty’s greatest strengths, and she represents the very best of the Corps experience. Stories like this remind us that the Corps doesn’t just prepare people for jobs, it builds leaders who lift others as they rise. #CorpsAtWork #CALCC #CorpsStrong #LocalCorps

#CorpsAtWork Spotlight: Suledy Montes Since joining @Civicorps in August 2024, Suledy Montes quickly rose from Corpsmember to Crew Leader, earning recognition for her drive to learn, grow, and lead. She completed certifications in chainsaw operation, forklift 1 & 2, firefighting (Red Card), and chipper operations, then excelled in the Crew Leader Academy. Suledy also worked on specialized California State Parks projects, including historic window restoration at the Benicia State Capitol—building both technical skills and confidence. Now a Facilities Maintenance Intern, Suledy is continuing her training while pursuing her long-term goal of becoming a helicopter aviation riveter, hoping to inspire more women in the field. As Suledy puts it: “The Corps really helped me figure out new paths for myself and reignite a flame inside me.” #CorpsAtWork #CALCC #CorpsStrong #LocalCorps

#CorpsAtWork: Behind every project is a person, and in 2025, corpsmembers at each of the 14 Local Conservation Corps built more than trails, habitats, and careers. They built skills, confidence, and pathways to the future. Over the coming days, we’ll be sharing stories from corpsmembers, highlighting what they accomplished, what they learned, and how their service helped shape their next steps. From hands-on conservation work to workforce training and personal growth, these stories show the real impact of the Corps experience. This is what it looks like when service creates opportunity. #CorpsAtWork #CALCC #CorpsStrong #LocalCorps

We’re incredibly grateful to the CA Legislature and Governor @GavinNewsom for signing AB 105 appropriating Proposition 4 funds, including vital support for the Local Corps Grant Program! These dollars will put Corpsmembers to work on critical conservation projects across the state while providing paid job training and pathways to lifelong careers. This investment is a win for our environment, our youth, and our future. #Prop4 #Climate #LocalCorps

Today is the final day for the CA Legislature to introduce bills for consideration this year. We’re grateful to see AB/SB 105, which puts Prop 4 dollars to work. Thank you legislators, for prioritizing investments in CA’s future. These funds are essential to youth development, environmental restoration, and climate resilience. But we can’t stop here. We still have not seen a bill to reauthorize Cap-and-Trade. This critical program provides long-term funding that supports the work of the Local Conservation Corps, from wildfire prevention to recycling to creating real career pathways for underserved youth. For our corpsmembers, Cap-and-Trade isn’t just climate policy. It’s jobs, training, and hope. With only hours left, we urge you - @CAgovernor @ilike_mike & @CASpeakerRivas - to act. Put a Cap-and-Trade Reauthorization bill in print TODAY. #CALeg #CapAndTrade #ClimateAction #YouthJobs #Prop4 #CALCC #ConservationCorps

While the federal government rolls back critical climate policies and funding, California must keep moving forward. Our communities, our climate, and our Corpsmembers are counting on it. We are proud to be part of a state that has long set the national standard for bold, progressive climate action. Through your leadership, our Corps have built fire-safe communities, restored natural habitats, fought climate change on the frontlines, and given thousands of young Californians a pathway to serve and succeed. But now, with climate policy and funding under attack nationally, California’s leadership is more important than ever. @CAgovernor @ilike_mike & @CASpeakerRivas you must reauthorize Cap-and-Trade & appropriate Prop 4 funds NOW. We're counting on you. #GGRF #Prop4 #Climate #CAProud

What’s at stake if California’s leaders don’t reauthorize Cap-and-Trade and appropriate Prop 4 funds this year? Across the state, thousands of: - Corpsmembers will have less access to paid training, job placement, and safety net services (during a year when the unemployment rate for young adults is 10.25% - the highest it's ever been) - Acres of land will not be treated to prevent wildfires - Neighborhood-cooling and utility bill-reducing trees will not be planted - Pounds of trash will not be diverted from landfills - Miles of recreational trails will not be restored or developed … and the list goes on. We cannot take this risk. @CAgovernor @ilike_mike @CASpeakerRivas we're calling on you to TAKE ACTION NOW. We’re counting on you. #Prop4 #GGRF #Climate