CLEARFIELD — Social service providers say they’re working to help students being displaced as the result of an education and job training center in Davis County shutting down.
Nearly a hundred Job Corps centers nationwide are closing as the Trump administration scales back federal programs. Some providers in Utah who serve the homeless are getting swamped with calls trying to figure out what to do with some of the youth currently enrolled in Job Corps.
Job Corps serves low-income youth and young adults, ages 16 to 24. Those students, who come from across the United States, live on site while they learn new skills and go to school.
But with the center closing this month, those students have to find somewhere else to go. Some of them are at risk of homelessness . Around 25,000 students ac