(Santa Ana, Calif) — On Thursday, September 7, 2023, Representative Lou Correa (CA-46) will join officials from Santa Ana College (SAC) to announce $2 million in federal funding to help SAC develop career education pathways for disadvantaged and at-risk adult learners.
Lou Correa spoke at Santa Ana College back in April 2022 to announce the secured funding for the Digital Divide Project.
To offset lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the high cost of living in Orange County, the federal funding enables SAC to create pathways for in-demand occupations and careers in the region. New training programs at SAC will help ensure dislocated workers, un- and under-employed, and the working poor can enter high-wage occupations that earn family-sustaining wages.
This project will develop complete career technical Education (CTE) pathways for disadvantaged, dislocated or at-risk adult learners that start in noncredit courses (e.g., CTE skill development, basic skills and English) and transition to credit certificate and degree programs.
Some of the pathways include:
Who: U.S. Representative Lou Correa (CA-46) and Officials from Santa Ana College
When: Thursday, September 7, 2023 at 10 a.m.
Where: Santa Ana College
1530 W. 17th Street
Santa Ana, CA 92706
This funding is part of the nearly $30 million that Rep. Correa secured for community projects throughout California's 46th congressional district in the Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) omnibus appropriations bill, which President Joe Biden signed into law last year. Rep. Correa worked in lockstep with community leaders to identify priorities for CA-46 constituents and fought for them during the annual funding process.
Press interested in attending must RSVP to Dalilah Davaloz at Davaloz_Dalilah@sac.edu or Adriano Pucci at Adriano.Pucci@mail.house.gov.
About Santa Ana College:
Santa Ana College (SAC), which turned 100 years old in 2015, serves about 54,696 students yearly. At SAC, students can work toward completing an associate degree, university transfer, career/workforce training or a bachelor's degree in occupational studies. As part of Santa Ana College, the School of Continuing Education located at Centennial Education Center offers FREE classes throughout the community for adults of all ages and academic backgrounds. Santa Ana College is an award-winning college and was recently ranked as one of the nation's top two-year colleges awarding associate degrees to Latino and Asian students and named one of the best community colleges in California by Intelligent.com. The college is also recognized throughout the state for its comprehensive workforce training programs for nurses, firefighters, law enforcement and medical personnel. Santa Ana College is one of two comprehensive colleges under the auspices of the Rancho Santiago Community College District
ABOUT LOU: Congressman Lou Correa is a longtime Orange County resident, with deep local roots. To this day, he lives only three miles from his childhood neighborhood in Anaheim. He is the son of working-class parents whose hard work gave him a chance at success, and has spent his career fighting to protect the American Dream, and ensure anyone can reach the middle class, just as he did. In 2016, Lou was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives to continue his work by representing the community he has spent the past 20 years serving, fighting to give everyone access to the same opportunity he had. Congressman Correa is committed to working across party lines to strengthen the middle class and give everyone a shot at the American Dream by investing in education, healthcare, and our fading infrastructure, and has introduced legislation to protect the legal rights of immigrants, care for veterans, and fight against the wasteful spending of taxpayer money.
