Woodland Hills California Real Estate - Woodland Hills Schools - Vocational
"The best kept secrets" in the west Valley is the campus of the West Valley Occupational Center, located in Woodland Hills this school is serving 15,000 students a semester and continues to be relatively undiscovered . The school was founded by Calvin Dellefield in 1969, the school set on a 19 acre campus was designed as an alternative school for adult students looking to acquire skills quickly and inexpensively before going out to look for a job.
Through the years the hillside campus has done much more than just train workers. The campus benefited the community by helping people support families and turning them into valuable citizens of their communities, training workers that in turn became taxpayers.
West Valley Occupational Center has ESL division that helps immigrant students learn the English language and help them adapt better to their new country. Kids who failed in traditional schools West Valley Alternative Work Education Center gives them one more chance to succeed.
Altghout some of these classes could be taken at a community College or adult education school, West Valley school's focus is on getting his graduates jobs right after they finish the program.
The focus on getting jobs has forced the center to grow and change classes as industries have changed, classes as bicycle repair and print shop have been replaced with classes teaching hybrid-car repair and computer studies.
Some courses have come full circle like motorcycle repair classes. This course was big in the 1970's and 1980's , and made a come back because of rising gas prices.
When the Real Estate market was at its peak, a real estate class had more that 100 students. The classes are down to 40 now.
As layoffs in and around the
San Fernando Valley continue the last year the school has seen a rise of 10% in enrollment as adults change occupations.
The rise in enrollment did not change the fact that the center had no new construction in the past 30 year sand many classes are conducted in bungalows, but the centers student don't seem to mined.
Clark Jackson was an auto upholstery student at the center 30 years ago and enjoyed the school so much that he decided to come back as a teacher and has spent 21 years in the role. He got the call 21 years ago that the program was going to be shut down because they could not find an instructor, Jackson answered the call, he could not let the program go away. He gets pleasure by watching his students develop " their entrepreneurial Spirit."
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