JOB CORPS Throughout the month of November the Carl D. Perkins Job Corps Center held a food drive for local food banks. Perkins Y2Y & SGA Students partnered for the drive. Student collected over two-hundred cans of non-perishable food to donate to the Johnson County Food...
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Carl D. Perkins Job Corps gets in the Christmas spirit with the Floyd County Home Makers
On Monday December 5, students learned about recycling and using their imagination, while also enjoying some holiday fun with the Floyd County Homemakers Club. The students spent the morning making homemade Holiday ornaments to be used for an upcoming community...
Carl D. Perkins Job Corps Center holds last graduation of 2016
On Friday December 2, 2016 Carl D. Perkins held the last graduation in 2016, were twenty-three students participated in. Students had the opportunity to listen to Staff Sergeant Davin S. Erickson guest speaker for the event. Sergeant spoke to the graduates about...
Carl D. Perkins Job Corps students help honor Veterans
Thursday November 10, 2016 Carl D. Perkins Job Corps students assisted the Appalachian Hospice Center in honoring veterans at the National Guard Armory in Prestonsburg, KY. Perkins students worked two days preparing for the appreciation dinner. Perkins Construction...
Carl D. Perkins Job Corps students work with the KY Special Olympics
Saturday November 5, Carl D. Perkins Job Corps assist with the KY Special Olympics area bowling tournament at Bowl Rite Lanes in Prestonsburg, KY. Perkins students and staff assisted the over 50 Olympians with score keeping, retrieving the bowling balls, awarding...
Carl D. Perkins Job Corps assist with “Think Pink Event”
Staff and student spent Saturday morning, October 29, 2016 supporting the Think Pink Event sponsored by Highlands Regional Medical Center. Perkins Culinary prepared 150 lunches for the free community event. Students also had the opportunity to visit several vendors...
Carl D. Perkins holds Community Relations Council Meeting
Perkins hold Community Relations Council (CRC) meeting, introduces new Center Director to the community. The Carl D. Perkins Job Corps center held its quarterly CRC meeting on October 13, at the center. This was the first meeting under the new Center Director Ms....
Carl D. Perkins Job Corps Students read spooky stories to preschool children
Students practice many skills, during Halloween Activity with Pre-School children. Students from Ms. Betty Bartlett’s Reading class visited the North east Louisa Head Start classroom in Louisa, KY. Students go to practice their reading skills when capturing the...
Carl D. Perkins Students have busy weekend
Carl D. Perkins Students work a variety weekend events that involved Zombies, Science Activities and Sesame Street. Carl D. Perkins is quick to respond when there is a need for their help. Over the weekend of October14-15, students worked an array of community events,...
Carl D. Perkins Job Corps educate and inform community members
Carl D. Perkins uses the Jenny Wiley Festival held in Prestonsburg, KY October 6-8 to do community outreach. Perkins Business Community Liaison Jimmie Wilson, along with Outreach Admissions Counselor Valerie Ratliff, Student Government Association students Dionte...
Carl D. Perkins Students & Staff Support Diabetes Research
Perkins Job Corps Center staff and students run to help with research for diabetes. Perkins staff and students spent a rainy and cold Saturday morning, running for a cause. Ms. Beverly Compton and her Advanced Security Class, along with Perkins business community...
Carl D. Perkins Staff makes learning fun and a little spooky!
Carl D. Perkins reading Instructors take advantage of Halloween month to make learning fun and a little spooky. Students in Ms. Betty Bartlett's reading class along with Ms. Deborah Osborne's Reading class and Tiffany Halls math class have been reading “The Legend of...
Carl D. Perkins Job Corps student receives award for his hard work while on WBL
Perkins Job Corps student Ethan Fain recently received an award for his hard work Conservation Director Tony Grubb and Perkins Job Corps student Ethan Fain. work and dedication while completing a Work-Based Learning internship at the Floyd County Conservation Office....
Carl D. Perkins Job Corps spends weekend working a variety of events
Variety of events offer valuable hands-on job training Students at the Carl D. Perkins Job Corps Center celebrated the coming of fall with a number of events during the weekend of Oct. 1-2. Students from the construction programs at the center built a float that...
Carl D.Perkins Job Corps students receive certifications
Perkins students receive certifications Students from Mrs. Melissa Hicks Office Administration class receives several certifications and were awarded during Monday morning center business assembly. Office Admin students received combined certifications in Microsoft...
Carl D. Perkins Job Corps taught me how to live responsibly
Carl D. Perkins Job Corps taught me how to live Responsibly Sandra Jaime 23 years old from Jacksonsville, Florida. Sandra arrived at the Carl D. Perkins Job Corps in February 2014. Sandra came to Job Corps when she was o earning minimum wage working fast food jobs...
Carl D. Perkins Job Corps welcomes new center director
Carl D. Perkins Job Corps is pleased to announce that Paula Davis, former finance &administration director at the center, has been named the new center director. She assumed her CD duties on Aug. 5. Davis succeeds Thomas Rainey, who resigned to take a new position...
Carl D. Perkins has KY Lieutenant Governor Jenean Hampton as keynote speaker
Perkins held National Commencement Day on Friday August 26, 2016. Perkins had 37 graduates participate in the ceremony and was honored to have KYs Lieutenant Governor Jenean Hampton as keynote speaker. Governor Hampton was born in 1958 in inner-city Detroit into a...
Carl D. Perkins Job Corps Center introduce the first Advanced Security program in the nation
The Perkins Job Corps Center is proud to introduce the first Advanced Training in Security & Protective Services class in the country, under the leadership of Mrs. Beverly Compton Advanced Training Instructor. The Perkins Advanced Training Class in Security &...
KY Job Corps attends Congressional forum
The KY Job Corps Consortium that is made up of all the seven Job Corps Center’s Business Community Liaisons in KY had the opportunity to attend the KY Chamber Congressional Forum in Louisville, KY on August 29. The forum was an opportunity to bring the states federal...