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CSET welcomes you to our website. As the community
action agency for Tulare County, our mission is
to strengthen youth, families, and caring communities.
Our purpose is to reduce the causes of poverty.
We envision healthy, prosperous, and safe communities
- communities where children want to live when
they grow up because life is good.
CSET serves to reveal the greatness that is in
everyone, by providing education and training,
facilitating youth and community development,
and creating jobs and resources.
We are inspired by the words of Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.: “Everybody can be great, because
everybody can serve.”
We invite you to discover how CSET might help
you meet your goals. If you are looking for an
opportunity to share your resources, get a job
or training, learn how to start a business, earn
your high school diploma, find out about housing
resources, or get involved in your community,
contact us.
Public
Sector
Gailerd Swisegood, President
Justin Stoner
Lou Marchant
Gene Etheridge |
Low-Income
Sector
Emzy Cope
Ryan Toledo
Fil Martin
Julie Galindo
Maria Pineda |
Private
Sector
Jeff Gaebe, Treasurer
Lori Luna, Vice President
Henry Cisneros, Secretary
Ed Byrne
Laurel Barton |
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Executive Director
of CSET since 1982, Carolyn Rose
has been instrumental in staffing this community
action agency with caring and competent
professionals, dedicated to strengthening
youth, families, and communities. Her previous
work as a high school teacher and an employment
training program administrator was valuable
preparation for leading an organization
focused on youth development, education
and training, and community leadership and
capacity building.
Rose is an active member of the Tulare
County community, serving in leadership
roles in such organizations as the Tulare
County Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention Commission, Workforce Investment
Board, Employment Connection Council, Child
Care Planning Council, and the Tulare County
Business Finance Center. She is Chairman
of the Board of the National Association
of Service & Conservation Corps, a member
of the Executive Committee of the California
Association of Local Conservation Corps
and is a member of the Valley Community
Action Partnership. She has a M.A. from
University of Oregon and has completed course
work at University of California, Berkeley,
Florida Atlantic University, and the John
F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
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Self-Help
Enterprises "spins off" Self-Help
Training and Employment to provide youth
employment training and rural community
services.
First Chairman of the Board: Joe Friedman. |
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Self-Help
Training and Employment becomes Community
Services & Employment Training (CSET),
taking on the role as Tulare County's community
action agency. |
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CSET
begins Senior Jobs to focus on benefits
of hiring older workers and Work Opportunities
for Women to meet the needs of displaced
homemakers. |
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CSET
creates the Tulare County Conservation Corps
(Youth Corps) to serve young people who
want to continue their education and prepare
for work.
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Sequoia
SSTARS is born of a partnership with Sequoia
National Forest and Porterville High School.
New Traditions for Women is created to support
women seeking nontraditional careers.
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CSET,
Sequoia National Forest and Tulare County
Private Industry Council receive NACo Excellence
Award for Sequoia SSTARS program.
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CSET
joins pro-youth collaborative to begin renewal
of community action in North Visalia at
family and neighborhood levels.
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YouthBuild
funded by HUD for CSET and SHE to teach
youth to build homes. CSET and Tulare Adult
School partner to provide a learning center
and literacy educaton in Tulare.
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CSET
starts Mentors Matter collaborative.
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California
Wellness Foundation funds Goshen Planning
Council. CSET creates Community Initiatives
Department to target community building.
CSET and KCAO submit Empowerment Zone II
application.
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USDA
designates Tulare County Champion Communities.
CSET and Champion Communities get to work
on a shoestring budget but with high spirits
and much success.
National Association of Counties gives two
awards to CSET and partner, Tulare County
Private Industry Council: Workforce
Development Awards for Excellence for "Got
a Job!" and for New Traditions for
Women.
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CSET
partners with Pixley School District to
operate after school programs and later
with school districts of Cutler-Orosi and
Tipton.
Tulare County Youth Corps is the first Conservation
Corps in California to open a recycling
redemption center, the Goshen Recycling
Center.
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CSET
funded to operate Gang Violence Reduction
Project with partners Probation, Sheriff,
Ivanhoe Youth Center, and Tulare County
Housing Authority.
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Champion
Communities and CSET participate in Empowerment
Zone III application. CSET celebrates 25th
Anniversary. YouthBuild completes 20th home.
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National
Association of Service and Conservation
Corps recognizes CSET Corps with the Excellence
in Corps Operations designation, after a
week-long evaluation of our Corps.
The Cutler-Orosi Chamber of Commerce recognizes
CSET as its 2002 Business of the Year.
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CSET
and its Junior Leadership groups spearhead
community improvement projects in 17 unincorporated
communities on Make A Difference Day, working
among 1,162 youth and adult volunteers.
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CSET's
Tulare County Youth Corps completes Park
Bond projects: 25 parks enhanced or created;
7 communities gained clean, safe places
for children, families, and neighborhoods
to play; 200 trees planted; and 60 corpsmembers
gained education, workplace skills, and
construction and landscape training.
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CSET
moves into a new Visalia headquarters, built
in part by a State Park Bond, the first
in the City of Visalia's North Visalia Community
Campus for City and service organizations.
CSET launches E-Recycling Solutions, a social
enterprise, collecting 166 tons of electronic
waste in its first 6 months of operation.
The Tipton Town Council honors CSET as its
2005 Organization of the Year. CSET responds
to local business needs by crafting FastMath
Passport, a web-based accelerated Math tutorial
for helping job applicants master basic
math skills required by employers. Tulare
County Youth Corps receives Friends
of SCICON Award.
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CSET
trains Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA)
volunteers, who helped more than 300 low-income
residents access their Earned Income Tax
Credit.
Tulare County Youth Corps opens recycling
redemption center in Exeter. TCYC’s
Michael Taylor receives NASCC’s Corpsmember
of the Year from among 59 U.S. Corps. CSET
holds first Valentine fundraiser, raising
$10,000 for the Junior Leadership program.
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