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Yuba County One Stop Readies to Open


New facility to offer one-stop job training . . . Yuba County's Regional Career Center of the county Office of Education will begin operating out of the new 44,000 square foot job development structure near 12th and Yuba Streets this week. Ultimately, virtually every public agency or organization that has anything to do with job training, counseling, placement or education will either be housed or have a presence in what is being advertised as the county's one-stop center for jobs.

"With businesses this is a time when you need to be reinventing yourself," said David Shirah, regional coordinator for the center.

More than 100 employees from a number of agencies and organizations will be moving over the next month into the center that will house everything from the Regional Career Center to Yuba County's welfare to work program to veteran's services. The Employment Development Department at 12th and E Streets in Marysville will eventually shut down and relocate in the new building. Along with the offices for various job training and placement agencies, the structure has 13,000 square feet of classrooms, a public resource center with computer banks and reference library, video rooms and conference rooms.

Those entering the center will be greeted by a receptionist who will send the person to the correct location. People using the center don't have to live in Yuba County, though some of the funding programs are limited to county residents.

What makes the center unique is that we don't have tenants," Shirah said. "We don't have separate areas for each agency. We co-mingle our classrooms. The good thing is that we don't have to say 'go out the door, take a left on Yuba and then take a right on 12th Street and then go over to 14th Street," Shirah said. "It is all right here. That is the idea of the ones-stop."