Growing Works/Turning Point Foundation

Growing Works provides vocational training for those suffering from mental illness.  The project, run by the Turning Point Foundation, provides those with mental illness with job-trainhing, employment and horticulteral therapy at a non-profit, wholesale plant nursery.

Supervisor Linda Parks sits on numberous boards and commissions, and currently chair the Local Agency Formation Commission and the Ventura County Transportation Commission.  A longtime advocate for people with mental illness, Supervisor Parks is the county's reprepsentative on Ventura County Behavioral Health Advisory Board, and was the 2014 Honorary Chair of the annual National Alliance on Mental Illness Ventura County Walk.  She also organized several Senior Summits to assist senior citizens in Ventura County receive services.  Supervisor Parks is a former Mayor of the City of Thousand Oaks, and holds a Master's Degree in Urban Planning from the University of Washington.