Needs
Core Operating expenses that help realize GSUL's internal and external building maintenance and beautification, technology upgrades, operations staffing needs, and those for strong individualized support of clients and students, and outreach and engagement efforts in order to expand programs.
**Housing and Counseling
A HUD-certified sub-affiliate housing agency offers counseling and programs in money and credit management, forestalling mortgage default, delinquency and foreclosure, home ownership and first-time home buying, housing referrals.
**Youth Empowered for Success (YES) provides educational, job readiness, job development and placement resources to out-of-school and in-school youth ages 16 to 24 that enable them to become self-sufficient and economically stable adults. YES funding needs include:
- Incentives for benchmarks
- Transportation stipends
- Clothing for professional settings, such as, job interviews, recruitment fairs, etc.
- Workshop supplies
- Food vouchers
- Laptops
**Sacramento Works Job Center
Provides job seekers and employers with access to all recruitment, engagement, training, and job placement products and services in the Sacramento region. Offers career counseling, employment referrals, and scholarships for vocational training. Also provides support services like bus passes, food, work clothing and tools, rental/childcare assistance and unemployment filing.
**Higher Heights Adult High School
Support for Higher Heights enables GSUL to offer program at no cost to students and along with relevant curriculum and wraparound services that include job assistance and career training. Students are not just leaving with their high school diplomas--they are leaving with the skills and strategies necessary to excel at their next great opportunity. Beyond the high school diploma, Higher Heights creates opportunities for students to make a difference in their own lives and in the community.
**Black Child Legacy Campaign-Oak Park
Support for the BCLC ensures the success of reducing the disparity in Black child deaths throughout Sacramento County by 20 to 30 percent by the year 2020. BCLC-Oak Park program needs increased technological and physical resources. The program would also greatly benefit from increased opportunities to engage the community through various outreach and intervention efforts.
**Career Technical Education
Prepares students for careers in skilled trades, applied arts and sciences, and modern technologies. Current course offerings include Custodial and Facility maintenance, Microsoft Office, Community Healthcare Worker.
- Staffing of the Digital Assistance Resource Center.
Industry diversification to the Board to include legal, land-use and commercial real estate management and development.
Building Restoration and Beautification:
- 1st and 2nd Floor Bathroom Upgrades and Repair including replacing toilets.
- Carpet Replacement in 1st Floor Welcome/Intake Center, 2nd Floor Hallways and Classrooms, 3rd Floor
Hallways/Executive Suite/Executive Boardroom
- Building Painting and Power-wash
- Grounds repair of patios and Building Fencing
- Parking lot illuminated corner sign
- Leveler blind replacements offices and classrooms 1st, 2nd, 3rd floors
- Retrofit parking lot lights for solar powering by SMUD Solar Shade Trees