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Join the CCC to launch your career.
Year-Round Training
The skills and lessons you learn in CCC’s year-round training program will create a strong foundation for you to launch a meaningful career and transform your life!
Built Environment
CCC Corpsmembers complete projects that provide significant benefits to public infrastructure. Project work varies but may include building or maintaining park facilities, installing signage, retrofitting energy systems, and reducing fire and flood risk in communities.
Built Environment
Culinary
CCC Corpsmembers train for careers in commercial kitchens, resorts, and restaurants. The culinary crew prepares and provides meals to residents at the center. Certifications available include the ServSafe Food Handlers Certificate.
Culinary
Emergency Response
All Corpsmembers respond to emergencies across California (and beyond). Assignments can last up to 21 days in a row and Corpsmembers may work up to 16 hours in a day, earning excess pay. Crews support wildfire base camps, protect homes from flooding, remove debris, and more.
Emergency Response
Forestry
CCC Corpsmembers improve the health of California’s forests by planting seedlings, collecting cones and seeds, and removing invasive and/or fire-prone vegetation.
Forestry
Habitat Restoration
CCC Corpsmembers assess habitats, remove invasive vegetation, plant native species, stabilize slopes, or implement additional modifications to enhance natural environments. Corpsmembers may complete this work in forests, rivers, streams, or other sensitive habitats.
Habitat Restoration
Trails
CCC Corpsmembers construct and maintain trails for public recreation. Project work varies but may involve clearing brush, rebuilding trail tread, installing rip rap erosion control, constructing bridges or boardwalks, and more.
Trails
Veterans Fisheries
In partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the CCC enables U.S. Military Veterans to monitor species of concern and restore habitat for endangered fish, such as salmon and steelhead.
Veterans Fisheries
Wildland Firefighting
CCC partners with CAL FIRE and BLM to operate firefighting hand crews. Corpsmembers cut fire line, lay hose, and mop up wildland fires. They also reduce wildfire risk by removing vegetation, creating fuel breaks, and participating in prescribed burns. Crews respond to local calls and can be dispatched statewide.
Wildland Firefighting
Seasonal Programs
Each season offers something special. Join one of CCC’s unique seasonal programs, dive into the world of conservation, and find your path!
Backcountry Trails Program
Each season, CCC’s Backcountry Trails Program (BCTP) assembles six crews from widely diverse backgrounds to venture into the wilderness to perform some of the most challenging and rewarding work of their lives. BCTP Corpsmembers learn the historic skills of trail maintenance and construction, and the process of building healthy, inclusive communities.
Backcountry Trails Program
Watershed Stewards Program
CCCs’ Watershed Stewards Program (WSP) empowers young adults to improve watershed health by actively engaging in restoration science, civic service, and community education. WSP places Corpsmembers with scientists (Mentors) at environmental organizations (Placement Sites) around the state to assist with data collection and analysis, as well as restoration project development and maintenance.
Watershed Stewards Program
Read Our Updates
CCC crews have been working with CDFA to help stop the spread of Med Fly in Alameda County.
Eight Corpsmembers are spending six weeks in Chile, maintaining and restoring the trail network in Torres Del Paine National Park.
Chico Corpsmembers worked quickly before winter rains arrived to create natural barriers and filtration systems to protect Big Chico Creek and its native wildlife.