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Residents urge Pinal County to probe abrupt Job Corps closures as supervisors ask staff for answers
Summary
Public commenters told the Board of Supervisors that abrupt Job Corps terminations are leaving students without housing and employees without severance; Supervisor Goodman asked staff to report back to the board and notify members.
Heidi Miller, a Coolidge resident, told the Pinal County Board of Supervisors on June 4 that recent, abrupt terminations of Job Corps operations are leaving students without housing and preventing participants from completing training programs.
"These kids that are in this program ... are frequently from foster care families. They're frequently from broken home families," Miller said during the meeting's public comment period. "Doing this to them will increase the number of ACEs, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and increase their trauma."
The comments came alongside similar concerns from Bishop Gary R. Johnson Jr., who said he had received calls about layoffs and that some…
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