With a wife and four children between the ages of 7 and 14 depending on him, Anthony’s family needed the kind of long-term stability his career couldn’t provide. After 15 years as a barber, he began looking for a path that offered a more secure future....
Gerald’s girlfriend left for work with one request: Put the dresser together before she got home. Gerald looked at the box, the instruction booklet and the bags of screws. “You know I can’t put this together.” By the time she returned, only a...
A single conversation changed Yvett’s future. After losing her job at an Amazon warehouse, Yvett began worrying about how she would support her family. “I started to stress about everything,” she said. “How was I going to pay rent? Was I going to...
Excellence in collaboration. That’s the hallmark of CORE Academy’s fourth cohort of marketing interns – a trio of individuals who learned skills in social media, podcast production and videography this spring. “This was the strongest cohort we’ve...
CORE Academy Celebrates First Hospitality Program CORE Academy, Hope through Housing’s free job-training program, has celebrated the graduation of 12 students from its first-ever hospitality cohort. The hospitality track joins CORE Academy programs in property...
Hope through Housing’s CORE Academy workforce training program has expanded to include Orange County – our third program expansion in less than a year – offering free hands-on training in high-demand fields for residents of low-income households. On March 4, 16...
