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[quote]assallaumuallaikum everyone. i don't know if i want to cry or laugh when i received a big envelope from the Civil Rights Bureau of the Dept. of Social Servies. my letter was returned because a Ms. Alana Spencer thought that what the Worksource Center did to me is not a civil rights violation but merely an oversight! 
1)did i not have any rights at all as a needy participant of the WIA program?
2)was it not retaliatory in nature when two District Attorneys took my testimony on Friday and the next Monday i was without a job?
3)was there any civil rights violation when FASGI did not provide food and services to the participants which were funded by HUD & LAHSA as well as the state and the federal government.

a copy of my letter that i have sent to the District Attorney's office, ACLU, and other Civil Rights offices will commence.

Inshaallah, i will see justice with all your help.

lourdes brenda aisha

Dear Sirs: 
At around May 2004, I ran unto Everisto Rubio at Lafayette Worksource Center.  We talked about my desperate search for a job. He told me to come back and see him again on July because his program was concurrently ending.
Soon after that, I decided to start going to Wilshire-Metro Worksource Center since it was closer to my house. A few months later, I signed up for their Workforce Investment Act program orientation. I had to show proof of job search for at least to weeks to be admitted. Nonetheless, I fulfilled the requirement and passed the written test. I filled out all the necessary paperwork. To be officially accepted, I needed to initiate a call to Brenda Maddix two weeks later. So I did.  I was assigned to Miriam Ayrapetyar. I sat down with Miriam A. to discuss my situation.
That same day, I had asked Miriam to help me reinstate my Food Stamps benefit and General Relief cash benefits that was threatened to be cut off unreasonably. She flatly told me that she was in no position to intervene so I talked to Justina, the Supervisor. 
Justina told me that she tried to call DPSS but her calls were not returned. Justina told me to go to some places who issues food bags. I emphasized my need of help to get back to the job force.  
The leads my Case Worker and the Supervisor given to me were all the way out Calabaza, Woodland Hills, Irvine, etc. I told them that I prefer a job around Los Angeles or downtown because of the many roadblocks I am facing such as lack of cash, food, and clothing.
Justina told me that she drives many miles to come to work and she has children compared to me who doesn't.
Frustrated and angry, I started looking for a job on my own outside Wilshire-Metro.
I finally got accepted as an Intermediate Clerk at the Dept. of Social Services of the County of Los Angeles.
The day before I was to start working for DPSS, I called Lafayette Worksource to help me avail for the transportation tokens and clothing voucher that offered by the WIA program. I told them that I was very unhappy with the service I got at Wilshire-Metro that's why I am calling them for help.
Lafayette Worksource-Metro searched the system could not find me in the system as a participant. It was devastating to hear the news because I spent a lot of time and effort attending the program for nothing. I remembered crying that day. I was made a fool by Wilshire-Metro people. 
On March 14, 2004, I signed up to join Lafayette's WIA program.[/quote]

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