JOB CORPS It’s early in the work day. Students are volunteering for a public service project. They’re on time for the bus. At the work site they listen to the safety briefing of the field boss. They ask questions about areas they are unsure about. They see that the other...
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Alaska Job Corps Serves Volunteer Group Fighting Suicide
Making a meal is an exercise in planning, precision, art and science. When the meal is presented to customers, one hopes it is all good and worthy. However, when the meal is presented to hard working volunteers—who spend untold hours combating suicide, intervening in...
Alaska Job Corps Y2Y effort goes into Community along with Public Service
Alaska’s Y2Y P4P team joined up with Neighborworks, a national group, to do public service on Thursday June 9. Nine Job Corps Y2Y ambassadors joined other community members to help make a difference. It was a painting project on some older log buildings right in the...
Water Safety is part of Safety Culture at Alaska Job Corps
Alaska Job Corps students have many waterside opportunities in their off-time, after training hours. A full fleet of canoes, nicely berthed in a "canoe dorm", stand ready for the evening lake paddle. Swimming in lakes is common and fishing too is an abundant activity...
Alaska Job Corps hosts Community College Outreach
The Mat Su Community College Outreach Coordinator, Mariann Wetherby, addressed students at the Alaska Job Corps Center. She explained how the college and Job Corps work together. For some students in the program, the idea of college seemed out-or-reach. With Mariann's...
Workforce Council Meeting at Alaska Job Corps Center
Employers and community leaders joined with Alaska Job Corps staff and students on May 19. It was the first Workforce Council lunch and it focused on Accounting, Security and Protective Services and Office Administration programs. Prior to this, the Center has hosted...
Remarkable Manager at the Alaska Job Corps Center Infuses Award -Winning Social Development Department
Social Development Manager Roger Gossett can’t sing. And you don’t want to see him dance. But he can take a group of students or staff and motivate them to safely scale the tallest mountain. And catch each other if they fall. That is Roger Gossett’s forte’. This...
US Senator Sullivan’s Legislative Assistant joins with Alaska Job Corps Y2Y effort
Sable Wolf, Alaska Job Corps Y2Y student writes: Today, May 4th, our Y2Y group met with Tyler Roberts (Legislative Assistant to Alaska’s U. S. Senator Dan Sullivan) in the career development center. The Y2Y students included Mr. Roberts in a discussion on Y2Y...
Alaska Job Corps Celebrates Cultural Diversity with Community
All the mayors were there, along with the Governor and the First Lady. It was the great Bridge Builders kick-off event in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley in Alaska and Job Corps students were there, performing and sharing food with all the community. "World Flavors"...
Monday Mountain Runs helps Job Corps endurance
After a long day of training, some want to nap. Or eat. Or chill. But the Alaska Job Corps Monday Running Club has mountains to climb. And they love it. They have run up the Lazy Moose Trail and in Hatcher Pass. They will run the Butte and Morgan Horse Trail. ...
Global Youth Service Days and the Alaska Job Corps Center
As a part of Global Youth Service Days, the Alaska Job Corps students and staff cleaned up public spaces and neighborhoods near the center. Winter debris and windworn trash was rescued from fence and tree lines and secured in garbage bags. Within a two mile radius...
Alaska Job Corps Culinary Arts Students Serve Seniors
It was Volunteer Appreciation Day at the Mat Su Senior Services Center. Community volunteers were being honored for their year round help and assistance to the Elders in this region of Alaska. Alaska Job Corps Culinary Arts Students stepped up to serve both the...
Alaska’s Y2Y (Youth To Youth)P4P (Partners for Peace) March with Community Against Violence
Alaska Job Corps students and staff joined with Senator Sullivan and Senator Murkowski staff, Mayors, law enforcement and citizens to denounce violence at all levels. A large community march was held in many towns and villages in Alaska. This picture shows the...
Largest City in Alaska receives election assistance from Alaska Job Corps students
It was the municipal election last evening. At city hall in downtown Anchorage things were predictably chaotic--but that is just the way it is on election evenings. Precinct volunteers and workers deliver the secure hard ballot boxes, in their SUV’s and cartons of...
Alaska Water Waste Water Student Tackles Experience and Wins
Just a wee bit north of the Arctic Circle, along the Alaska Pipeline, is Pump Station No. 5; it’s a well-engineered pipeline camp--built upon a refrigerated earthen foundation, which was designed to keep the buildings’ heat from penetrating or melting the permafrost...
Alaska Job Corps Preps New Behavior Management System
Alaska Job Corps Center is preparing for the New Behavior Management System. Both staff and students are being trained in the specifics which will be defined as a Level 1, Level 2 or minor infractions. Beefing up the Job Corps disciplinary system is a reflection of...
Job Corps Certified Nursing Assistants help Seniors at Regional Medical Center
Every month Alaska Job Corps Certified Nursing Assistants travel to the Mat Su Regional Medical Center to work with the elders at the monthly Senior Circle presentations. Students take blood pressures and work with the elders as requested. The elders are interested in...
Sharing with Community is Job Corps Culture
The Alaska Blood Bank visits the Alaska Job Corps on regular intervals, every few months. Last week’s visit resulted in 28 donations and 26 pints of blood. In addition to being a public service, students learn the results of good will and citizenship. These soft...
Alaska Job Corps Center is one of Largest Contributors to Major Recycling Facility
The Alaska Job Corps Center is one of the largest contributors to the Regional recycling facility in the Mat Su Borough. All classrooms, dormitory halls, residential rooms, administration and activity centers have their own building recycle stations with separation...
Business Brings Excel to Life for Accounting Students
Excel is just software-- until you see it in action. Twelve Alaska Job Corps Accounting students did just that--last week at the Matanuska Electric Association’s main headquarters. This was a hands on opportunity and students heard directly from employees in the...