A little known activity of Catholic Charities' San Fernando Region is the operation of A Temporary Skilled Worker Center in Glendale. Recently, the Glendale City Council approved spending $ 100,000 to expand the Center for day laborers. Currently serving 125 workers a day, the primary purpose of the Center is to help day laborers find jobs in a structured and orderly setting and to eliminate the informal solicitation of employment on street corners, sidewalks, and parking lots in the city of Glendale. The center uses a lottery system to distribute work. It is believed that use of the Center will provide more work than is found on street corners through informal solicitation, and higher wages. Catholic Charities with the help of its partners, The City of Glendale and Glendale Police Department, is constantly developing marketing strategies to promote the Center.

All workers must fill out an application form in order to participate in the program and be accepted. The application requests data such as the worker's age, date of birth, present residence and country, state and town of origin, level of education and training, skills and tools possessed, language capabilities, etc. Work is assigned by use of a lottery system. No inquiry is made of the worker's immigration status.

It should be noted that immigration control advocates, oppose such Centers on the basis that such Centers' cater to and thereby encourage undocumented immigration.

However, many studies have shown that day laborers are not exclusively undocumented immigrants. Day laborer programs such as Catholic Charities' Glendale program, attempt to address a variety of community and social problems. Local government and law enforcement support day laborer programs because they are responding to the requests of residents and business owners to problems related to street loitering. Local government and law enforcement are not responsible for enforcing employment laws or preventing undocumented immigration.

The Glendale Center is considered successful because of its high rate of employment and day laborer participation. Several other centers in the country have been modeled after the Glendale Center.

Recently, the City of Glendale has been sued by day laborers, represented by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, for its ordinance barring workers from soliciting work off city streets. A federal court struck down the ordinance as unconstitutional; Glendale has appealed the decision to the 9 th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.