David & Margaret Youth and Family Services has set the grand opening of its Youth Workforce Training Center, featuring The Store @ David & Margaret and Dave & Maggie’s Café, on Wednesday, Jan. 24.

The event will be 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., at 1351 Palomares Ave., La Verne, on the agency’s south campus).

Both the store and café had a “soft opening” in November and are now open to the public. Both provide training opportunities for foster youth.

The center is a key component of the agency’sYouth Workforce Training

Program. Another component, the Cedar Springs Village apartment complex, opened in 2016 on David & Margaret’s campus and provides 25 safe and affordable homes for former foster youth.

The center includes a resource center that provides job and education research facilities and coaching, and a lending wardrobe for interviews. The agency’s iconic Whitney Building will be remodeled in the next year or two to provide a safe space for leisure activities for former foster youth that includes counselors’ offices.

– Contributed by David & Margaret Youth and Family Services