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Parks California Career Pathways Grants Program: Planning & Development Grants is sponsored by Parks California. Supports planning and development of career pathways to California State Parks jobs for underrepresented communities via partnerships.
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Career Pathways – Parks California It’s never too early or too late to kick-start an environmental career Parks California’s Career Pathways program offers career training and mentorship for people interested in parks and public land careers. We launched the Career Pathways Grant Program in 2021 to support workforce development between State Parks and local organizations.
Parks California plays a unique role in bringing diverse perspectives, lived experiences, and Indigenous knowledge into stewardship of our state’s parks. The Career Pathways program supports participants in building skills and connections to mentors and professional networks to support them in their career journey.
This program is made possible through a public private partnership, supported by private fundraising by Parks California, and the California Department of Parks and Recreation’s Waterway Connections Initiative.
The goals for this grant program are: Broaden and expand career pathways to jobs in California State Parks and public lands Address key access barriers faced by underrepresented communities Add on-the-ground capacity to California State Park high priority projects Build and strengthen partnerships between communities, organizations, and California State Parks Tribal EcoRestoration Alliance Tribal EcoRestoration Alliance Pathways Home: A Tribal Natural Resource Program The Tribal EcoRestoration Alliance is a cross-cultural, multi-organizational collaborative that works to revitalize ecology, economy, and culture through indigenous-led stewardship.
Pathways Home: A Tribal Natural Resource Program in Clear Lake State Park (Pathways Home) is a career development program for intertribal participants from the Lake County area, the ancestral territory of Eastern Pomo, Southeastern Pomo, Wappo, and Lake Miwok people who have inhabited and stewarded the land since time immemorial. Clear Lake State Park (CLSP) is the ancestral village home for the Eastern Pomo people of Big Valley.
Through a partnership between the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians and Tribal EcoRestoration Alliance (TERA), an intertribal nonprofit based in Lake County dedicated to building capacity for Tribal members to steward their ancestral lands, the Pathways Home project offered unique tribally oriented natural resource management career training to Tribal participants in 2023 in support of Big Valley’s co-management agreement with CLSP.
Tribal EcoRestoration at Clear Lake State Park Crystal Cove Conservancy at Crystal Cove State Park Natural Resource Summer Internship Program The Natural Resource Summer Internship Program is in partnership with California State Parks’ Orange Coast District.
This program provides aspiring graduate and undergraduate students underrepresented in the sciences an opportunity to gain hands-on experiences in natural resource management at Crystal Cove State Park. The internship program aims to create new pathways for nontraditional students passionate about natural resources to gain hands-on and practical experience, equipping them for future careers within State Parks.
Tailored training sessions focus on developing interns’ technical skills, professional demeanor, and confidence for future careers. The program tackles pressing natural resource challenges in the Orange Coast District. Through hands-on projects like habitat restoration and environmental monitoring, we address issues like habitat degradation and biodiversity loss.
Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods County Youth Ecology Corps and Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods Stewards of the Coast & Redwoods partners with the Sonoma County Youth Ecology Corps to support summer youth crews to support fire recovery priorities within Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve and Austin Creek State Recreation Area.
The program provides youth and young adults 18-24 years of age with paid work experience, training, the opportunity to explore careers and develop work-readiness skills.
Approximately 70% of those employed are at-risk youth including those enrolled in Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act programs, those receiving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), Services for Transitional Age Youth (STAY), and current or former foster youth.
Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods at Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve Sierra Institute for Community & Environment at Plumas-Eureka State Park Sierra Institute’s P-CREW youth corps program is designed to serve as a pathway to the profession for young adults, providing them with the technical and social skills needed to advance their educational and career pursuits.
P-CREW empowers future leaders and resource stewards through the “E’s “of it all (Exposure, Exploration, Education, Experience, and Employment), a process that embraces comfort zone expansion through an intensive five-week program completing an array of stewardship projects. Participants receive training in Leave No Trace, tool use and maintenance, ecology, basic first aid, teamwork, and more.
Through this project, the partnership between California State Parks and Sierra Institute will engage P-CREW on an array of projects with direct ecosystem and community benefits. It will also allow both entities to leverage resources to identify, develop, and deploy solutions to overcome the multifaceted barriers to accessing careers within State Parks and other public land management entities.
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