Santa Clara Supes honor success of CalWORKs assistance recipients - KRON4

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (BCN)– Santa Clara County honored 5 clients of a authorities assistance programme and celebrated the occurrence of those families successful an awards ceremonial astatine the county’s Board of Supervisors gathering Tuesday. California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) is simply a authorities programme administered by counties that helps families with children and large individuals conscionable basal needs similar short-term currency assistance, childcare and wellness attraction sum and connects them with employment and acquisition opportunities.

This was the 32nd awards ceremonial to observe the accomplishments of clients who person excelled during their information successful the program. “Facts, figures and reports tin archer stories of the occurrence of the CalWORKs program, but thing does it justness similar seeing the interaction connected the people.

Showing resilience successful the look of adversity, these 5 honorees are genuinely inspiring,” said Angela Shing, manager of the Department of Employment and Benefits Services with the county’s Social Services Agency. The archetypal among this year’s honorees was Gerardo Contreras, a azygous begetter with constricted English skills who worked with CalWORKs unit to navigate the societal justness strategy to summation ineligible and carnal custody of his children.

According to Shing, Contreras besides worked with CalWORKs unit to renew his greenish paper and find housing. Coralynn L., different honoree, overcame carnal and substance maltreatment successful past relationships and turned to CalWORKs to marque a amended beingness for her and her sons.

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She said time attraction services gave her the assurance she needed to find a job, spell to schoolhouse and supply her kids with a amended future. Also honored was Valerie Lesquety, who utilized CalWORKs to flooded spouse unit and find a job.

“CalWORKs changed my beingness due to the fact that it taught maine however to use for a job, however to constitute a thank-you enactment and travel up with an interview,” said Lesquety successful a recorded statement. “Don’t beryllium acrophobic to inquire for assistance oregon archer your story.

It whitethorn assistance different radical and different people’s stories whitethorn assistance you.” Denise King, different unfortunate of intimate spouse unit who had nary fiscal support, turned to CalWORKs to unafraid a brighter aboriginal for herself and her daughter.

While successful the program, King went backmost to schoolhouse for paralegal studies and received an subordinate grade from De Anza College, thing she said that she ne'er thought that she could do. Last among the honorees successful the Tuesday greeting ceremonial was Ruth Cayetano Galindo.

During the pandemic, Galindo’s hubby mislaid his job, and the household mislaid respective friends and household to COVID-19. According to CalWORKs, Galindo grew bushed of being acrophobic of the microorganism and turned to the programme to assistance her household and began moving astatine the Santa Clara County Emergency Operations Center, archetypal astatine the investigating tract and aboriginal astatine the vaccination site.

“Overall, I met a caller mentation of myself that is capable to flooded obstacles. Challenges bash not paralyze maine anymore,” said Galindo. CalWORKs, which is funded by the national Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, has helped 40 percent of participating families to find employment contempt continued uncertainties posed by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, region officials said.

Enrollment successful CalWORKs is wholly voluntary. Families with babelike children and expectant parents tin cheque their eligibility and use for services astatine socialservices.sccgov.org.

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