Teenagers Gaining Skilled Trades Training, Class Credit – and a Paycheck – in Summer Programs Across L.A. County
At the same time, the workforce is aging, and skilled trades professionals are retiring faster than they can be replaced.
- At the same time, the workforce is aging, and skilled trades professionals are retiring faster than they can be replaced.
- The Los Angeles County Skilled Trades Summer Program aims to be part of the solution to this growing labor shortage.
- “Skilled trades education can make students ‘career ready’ by the time they graduate from high school.”
Yet skilled trades education, like Tuttle’s welding program, is not available to the vast majority of L.A. County public high school students. - Enrollment in the summer program has doubled compared to last summer, reflecting growing interest in career opportunities amid a shortage of skilled trades professionals.