What We Do

Job Corps is a no-cost education and career technical training program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor that helps young people ages 16 through 24 improve the quality of their lives through career technical and academic training. The Job Corps program is authorized by Title I-C of the Workforce Investment Opportunity Act (WIOA), 2014. For more information about the Job Corps program at a national level, please visit ourOfficial Public Web Site.

At Fred G. Acosta Job Corps Center, we support the Job Corps program's mission of teaching eligible young people the skills they need to become employable and independent and placing them in meaningful jobs or further education.

Who We Are

Fred G. Acosta Job Corps Center is overseen by the San Francisco Regional Office of Job Corps and is operated by Human Learning Systems, LLC.  Our Center Director is Brad McCormick. For additional information, please see our webpage for contact information. 

Our History

Our center opened in 1979 as the Tucson Job Corps Center. In 1992, the center name was changed to honor Fred G. Acosta, who served as our center's first director for eleven years. Many years ago, Mr. Acosta referred to our center's community of staff and students as la familia or "the family"; this term is still used at our center today.