California Human Development Corporation

Farmworker services - as part of the workforce innovation and opportunity act, we provide job training and placement to low-income migrant and seasonal farmworkers throughout northern California. We have provided this service since 1967 and have placed thousands of farmworkers into permanent, non-seasonal jobs. We also operate three training centers that provide hands-on vocational training in areas such as truck driving, welding, and construction. Our primary partners in this effort are the u.s. department of labor, america's job centers of California, la cooperativa campesina de California, the many employers who hire our trainees, and numerous local non-profit and public partners that help ensure that our services are effective and holistic. Additionally, we are interested in supporting training initiatives that will help customers start their own businesses including microenterprise Development. We begin our relationship with clients by asking what their individual desires and needs are; we then develop a support plan to reach these goals. We ensure that individuals, and where relevant their family members, are fully engaged as active participants in developing personalized career plans that reflect their vocational interests.

Community services - the community services division is primarily funded by the federal community services block grant (csbg), a program derived from the federal 1964 war on poverty program. The intent of csbg is to develop and support local initiatives, targeting community needs that are under-represented in the current delivery system within local communities. Chd's community services division is dedicated to strengthening our communities and helping our region's at-risk residents achieve and maintain safer, healthier, and more productive lives. The division delivers several localized and unique services including naturalization and citizenship assistance, residential services to affordable housing residents, and local grass-roots day labor centers for under-employed workers. All these programs offer a holistic approach to addressing the needs of traditionally under-served families and communities. Innovative and established methods are utilized to deliver services that enhance socio-economic outcomes for fragile communities.

Housing services - chd offers a range of housing services focused on providing a housing continuum that leads from emergency shelter and respite housing to subsidized rental projects and then on to home ownership and self-sufficiency. Chd owns two properties: mahal plaza, a usda financed 98-unit project in yuba city, and aytch plaza, a California hcd financed 11-unit project in lake county (the poorest county in California). Additionally, our sister agency, north bay Human Development Corporation (nbhdc) owns parkway plaza in fairfield, a 100-unit senior hud 202 financed project. There are currently three properties under chd management. Additionally, chd manages 180 beds of seasonal housing in three farmworker housing centers in napa. This project is unique in that the operation of these centers is funded through a combination of worker fees, contributions from vineyard growers through an assessment district, and active participation from the napa county housing commission and the st. helena farmworker committee.