Shasta County’s recent decision to close a job training center for adults with disabilities casts some uncertainty on the next chapter for the decades-old program. The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Feb. 28 to close the Opportunity Center based on recommendation from the Health and Human Services Agency that said the center was not financially healthy. The center will close June 30. Prior to the supervisors’ decision, HHSA Deputy Branch Director Julie Hope said financial assessments predicted the center’s expenses would exceed its revenue by more than $1 million during the 2022-23 fiscal year. Read more: ‘Mismanagement due to poor financial oversight’: HHSA to ask supervisors to close Opportunity Center Hope has said closing the Opportunity Center will allow a state-funded regional agency to assign the job training program to a new provider. But it isn’t known who the new provider will be. The county is working with Far Northern Regional Center to find a new provider to take over the Operation Center, and the deadline to submit a proposal is March 15, county community relations specialist Amy Koslosky said in an email. Read more: Shasta County program that gets Shasta residents with disabilities jobs could shift to […]
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