JOBS.
VISION.
SUCCESS.
CAREERS CHANGE LIVES
We help underserved Californians—like veterans, youth, refugees—turn job struggles into success. Offering free job training & placement, mentoring, coaching & more so communities can thrive.
We are building better lives, one job at a time, by empowering individuals to achieve sustainable employment and financial independence.
Veteran Services
We assist all military Veterans with a special focus on women veterans and post-9/11 veterans by providing professional career coaching, assessments to identify transferable skills, training in high growth career sectors, plus job search skills and job placement assistance.
No cost career training programs
Launch your professional career in the growing banking, healthcare and apartment management industries. In partnership with local and national employers, our career training programs – ImagingWorks, BankWork$, HealthWorks, ApartmentWorks and CareerWork$ Medical – prepare graduates for their first step on a career ladder that offers extraordinary potential. Class sizes are limited. Apply now!
Job & WorkSource Centers
We partner with LA City & County to operate several America’s Job Centers of California (AJCC) / WorkSource Centers, where we provide employment and training services to job seekers at no cost.
We connect job seekers to employers and trainers and provide access to Veteran transition services, a career resource library, workshops, on-site interviews with local employers, job leads, resource referrals and access to computers and other office equipment.
Scholarship Program
In partnership with private donors, the JVS Scholarship Program provides qualified Jewish students whose primary residence is in the Greater Los Angeles area with need-based financial aid, in the belief that education represents the first step to career success. The JVS Scholarship has distributed over $14.3 million to more than 6,200 students.
WoMentoring
The WoMentoring program pairs women entering a career with a seasoned professional to help guide them and provide support throughout the career search process.
Disability and Assessment
The Disability and Assessment program provides a comprehensive evaluation and review of an individual’s skills, aptitudes, and interests to determine the next best career step. Assistance also includes job placement services such as resume review.
IMMIGRANTS and REFUGEES
Since 1931, JVS SoCal has helped immigrants and refugees from around the world. From German and Shanghai immigrants at the end of WWII to Cuban refugees in the 1970’s and Soviet Jews in the 1980’s, followed by Cambodians, Vietnamese and those impacted by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Today, we assist refugees and their families from all over the world, including Ukraine, Iran, Armenia, Cuba and elsewhere.
Ezra Network
The Ezra Network is an initiative of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles in partnership with JVS SoCal, offering career coaching, job search and placement support and is located in various synagogues in Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley and the South Bay.
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Stories from an innovative non-profit and the people who make it work.
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How ApartmentWorks helped Daniel Escamilla rebuild his life
For much of his adult life, Daniel Escamilla was a hard worker with a passion for hands-on trades. After spending seven years as a supervisor at Starbucks, Daniel discovered a love for maintenance work through espresso machine repair. He later became a maintenance technician at a chemical plant, responsible for keeping complex systems running safely
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Rena Strober, a story of faith and art
Rena Strober grew up in a Jewish home in New York where music was played all the time. Secular music, Jewish music, and a lot of Broadway music. She studied ballet and fell in love with the stage. She set her heart on becoming a theater performer. Rena went to Skidmore College, majoring in drama, which opened the door to a
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CareerWork$ Medical gave direction and a new career to former graphic designer
Growing up in San Francisco and West Los Angeles for most of his life, Michael Mikael always thought of himself as an artist. “I enjoyed doing more creative stuff…more artistic endeavors,” he says. This carried on to his college life, when he went to Loyola Marymount University to study fine arts and communication. After graduation, he worked as a a freelance graphic designer for 10 years, creating logos, posters and websites for
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ImagingWorks showed Irene Gomez the road to her new career
Irene Gomez is a graduate of ImagingWorks , JVS SoCal’s earn-and-learn program that prepares participants to join the healthcare industry as Patient Services Representatives (PSR), DEXA Technicians, and MRI Tech Aides. Before enrolling in the program, she was working in hospitality, serving as an usher for a large events venue in Downtown Los Angeles. The work was seasonal, and the pay wasn’t enough to cover her living expenses, which made her fall into
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JVS SoCal’s Scholarship recipient Carol Beckerman proves it’s never too late to go back to school
After a successful career in communications, Carol Beckerman felt that something was missing in her life. In 2015, she closed her communications agency, sold her home, and moved to Northern California to join a PhD program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. After an extended absence from higher education, returning to the academic
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JVS SoCal’s Woman to Woman Conference Showcases Incredible Career Journeys
L.A.’s iconic Pink’s Hot Dogs owner Gloria Pink announced on Thursday, November 13, that profits from their popular “Martha Stewart” dog will be donated to the JVS SoCal Women’s Leadership Network (WLN) to support the agency’s incredible career training and support programs. Gloria, her husband Richard Pink and Beverly Pink-Wolfe made the pledge at the