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Monterey Bay CCC
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Monterey Bay Operation CCC
757 Green Valley Road
Watsonville, CA 95076
Tel: (831)
768-0150
Fax: (831) 901-6755
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The young women and men of the Corps work hard protecting and restoring California's environment and responding to disasters, becoming stronger workers, citizens and individuals through their service.
CCC MOTTO:
"Hard work, low pay, miserable conditions... and more!"
John Muir Charter School at the Monterey CCC offers corpsmembers an educational program that makes a positive impact in the lives of our students, as well as the community.
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JMCS began its partnership with the Monterey Bay Operations site of the California Conservation Corps (CCC) in 1999. Ryan Hall is the lead teacher at the site and has been there since 2009. Jay Morse is the other teacher at the site and has been there since the beginning. They both enjoy developing the program and working closely with students to help them realize their educational goals.
Students in the CCC work for a wide range of project sponsors throughout California, including state agencies, federal agencies, city and county agencies, school districts, nonprofit organizations and private industry. The CCC looks for projects that conserve or enhance the state's natural resources or provide another public benefit, and work that offers corpsmembers an opportunity to boost employable skills. In addition the CCC can be dispatched within hours to assist agencies with natural disasters and other emergency efforts.
The Monterey Bay Operations site employs 80 corpsmembers between the ages of 18 and 25 on five crews in three different communities. Our crews in Salinas, San Jose and Watsonville provide resource conservation work such as trail construction, roadside maintenance, wetland habitat restoration and fire hazard fuel reduction.
The fifth crew is a weatherization crew which trains and works with Central Coast Energy Services to provide weatherization improvements for homes of low-income residents.
Our Muir students are the corpsmembers without their high-school diploma. They are all non-residential and most come from either Watsonville or Salinas, where a satellite crew is based. They are required to spend 10 hours per week on education in the classroom. A strong emphasis is put on individualized instruction using a tutorial method. Ryan assists students to identify goals and academic weaknesses and together they decide on a program that best fits the student. Fridays are a special day here, when JMCS students come to study individually as well as participate in group instruction in a relaxed and stimulating atmosphere.
Additional emphasis at this site includes building "Conservation Awareness" and "Career Development" for each student. They receive training through special classes, field trips, guest speakers and lessons. Most recently, students visited the Pacific Grove Natural History Museum on a paid education/training day. The students often receive high school credit for this type of project or event.
The CCC staff at Pinto Lake, which is a small site housed in a beautiful old historic house in Pinto Lake Park just outside Watsonville, are extremely supportive of the school and dedicated to the educational as well as the vocational progress of each corpsmember.
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Brenda Burks-Herrmann
Site Contact
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