California Conservation Corps Opportunities

The CCC (www.ccc.ca.gov) provides paid opportunities for youth to serve their state protecting and restoring California’s environment, responding to disasters, and becoming stronger citizens, students and individuals through full-time job training. It's a chance for individuals to explore projects with different agencies during their year in the Corps and perhaps find something of interest. Corpsmembers are young men and women 18-25 years of age from all walks of life who sign up for a challenging year of service to California’s natural resources and communities. It is also a chance to earn scholarship money (up to $7,775) to use in academic or vocational schools after the CCC.


The CCC offers a transfer program for students who may benefit from an alternative high school diploma program. They can be automatically enrolled to earn their diploma while getting paid through their CCC work. It consists of direct instruction, small class sizes, as well as a career pathways program. There are statewide residential locations and local non-residential sites.