Commissioner Leon Recognizes August 17th-21st 2015 as “David L. Carrasco Job Corps Week”
On the morning of August 10, 2015 during commissioners court, Commissioner Carlos Leon recognized the week of August 17th-21st 2015 as “David L. Carrasco Job Corps Week” in El Paso County.
Job Corps is a no-cost education and career technical training program administered by the US Department of Labor that helps young people ages 16 through 24 improve the quality of their lives through career technical and academic training.
The center opened in 1970 in downtown El Paso as the El Paso Job Corps Center. In 1979, the center moved to a larger five-acre campus on the east side of El Paso. In 1991, the center name was changed to honor David L. Carrasco, who served as the center's first director for over twenty years.