Job Training Center Receives UPS Grant

SOUTH-CENTRAL — The South Bay Service Center has received a $100,000 grant from the UPS Foundation to open a job training center in South-Central Los Angeles.

Evelyn Holmboe, the center’s executive director, said the UPS grant was the single largest grant the center has received during its four-year fund-raising effort to purchase a building for what will be called the South-Central Community Center.

The UPS Foundation is the charitable arm of Atlanta-based United Parcel Service. Other funding, including contributions from Rockwell International and Northrop, enabled the South Bay Service Center to purchase an 8,900-square-foot building at 7522 S. Vermont Ave. for $265,000, Holmboe said. She declined to disclose the amounts of the other donations.

In addition to offering on-the-job training and referral programs for positions such as security guards, medical assistants and clerical workers, the new facility will provide literacy training, English as a Second Language classes, and U.S. citizenship application and testing services, said Patty Carbajal, an office manager for the Torrance-based service center.

The center also will offer counseling on parenting, families, careers, alcoholism and drug abuse and will house a child-care facility.