Training
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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!
Culinary
Backcountry Trails Program
Emergency Response
Watershed Stewards Program