If needed, you'll learn skills that will help you get a job in today's work force. If needed, you'll learn skills that will help you get a job in your local labor market. Welfare to Work can help you improve your chances of getting a job with private industries, businesses, or public employers in your area. Through Welfare to Work, everyone wins. You gain a job and a future.
Employers gain a skilled work force.
Even if you are not required to participate in Welfare to Work, you can ask to take part. Ask your eligibility specialist how you can get into Welfare to Work. Some counties are part of demonstration projects. These projects test different rules to see what works best. Your Welfare to Work vocational counselor will explain to you if Placer County is part of a demonstration project and if any rules that are different from what is in this Placer CalWORKs Handbook apply to you.