JOB CORPS NEWS

Carville Job Corps Center Graduate, Lavantria Anthony works as a Customer Service Specialist at LOWE’S Home Improvement Store in Lafayette, Louisiana.  At LOWE’S,  Lavantria  uses her Office Administrative tools and certification acquired from the Carville Job Corps...

FORMER JOB CORPS STUDENT- Aids Other Job Corps Students Former Carville Job Corps student employee-Rachelle Harris of Lafayette, LA is currently employed as an Administrative Assistant at the Freeman Insurance Agency in Lafayette, Louisiana.  After completing the...

Career Preparation Phase better known to Job Corps associates as CPP begins your Job Corps experience.  On June 23, 2011, 60 CPP students turned their tassels to move to the next phase of Job Corps , known as Career Development Phase where the action of academics and...

Carville Job Corps Career Transition students got the chance to meet with Mr. Freeman, Director of Acts of Love Inc., a nonprofit organization that assist young aspiring adults with job placement and advance career training opportunities in the Lafayette, LA area. The...

Students employees from Carville Job Corps Center visited the newly renovated Ascension Parish Library in Gonzales, LA and saw the Baton Rouge Playmakers perform the play, “Penny and Paul, the Dreadful D Minus.” What a treat! The play was funny and the students roared...

The CTT Green Team members celebrated Carville Garden Day. The Facilities Maintenance students decided to take out the planter boxes they installed in the garden area last year and replace them with a “real” garden, as they called it. They have been preparing the...

On June 9, 2011, Carville Job Corps Students and staff participated in a Workplace Skills Workshop, “Hired today...Fired Tomorrow…”, presented by Mrs. Deborah Cross from the LSU AG Center. Mrs. Cross presented the skills needed for reliable job performance which...

HOODS UP!! CRANK HER UP!! And its PURRRING NOW…….Carville Job Corps Center -Automotive student employees and instructor, Mr Matt Gonzales volunteered their services as a part of Global Youth Service Day  activities to single mothers,  widowed wives, and wives of...

Carville Job Corps Student Employees and staff participated in Baton Rouge’s Earth Day Festival theme “Tis Land Is Our land”, as part of the center’s Earth Day and Global Youth Service Day Activities.  The students volunteered with corporate sponsors as recycle team...

Efforts to increase placement opportunities for Job Corps graduates, the Carville Job Corps Center hosted its annual Career Day. The CTS Team, CTR Instructor, and Business Community Liaison were key players in bringing employers and colleges to our Center for a...

Every Employer looks for Employees who display, great Workplace Ethics, Employee Loyalty , Understands  Employee Rights and Responsibilities  in the workplace.  Career Preparation Students at Carville Job Corps Center interacted in three hour training with peers by...

SMOKE FREE CENTER!!! Please Extinguish before Entering?  Signs at Carville Job Corps Center are few months away from being posted at the center’s entrance as the center continues to prepare students and staff for a smoke-free facility.  TEAP Specialist, Ms. Darius...

Carville’s Career Transition Readiness and Office Administration classes attended Baton Rouge’s 6th Annual Hospitality Council Job Fair held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Baton Rouge, LA.  Students were afforded the opportunity to interview and receive valuable...

Career Transition Readiness student employees of Carville Job Corps Center attended a Workforce Development Workshop hosted by the Ascension Parish Louisiana Workforce Development Center, conducted by Mrs. Scott and Mrs. Haydell-Workforce Training Coordinators.  The...

Carville Job Corps Center -High School Diploma Programs visited the New Orleans Museum of ART on February 24, 2011.  They were eager and excited to see the art they were studying in their Art Appreciation Study Guide on display at the museum. The students were greeted...

Carville Job Corps Center held its 1st Smoker’s Forum on February 16, 2011 in the Carville Job Corps Centers Gymnasium.  Mrs. Darrius Croson, centers TEAP Specialist , wellness manager- Terry Square, Recreation Specialist-Ronald Lomax along with students Jarvis King,...

Carville Job Corps Center Student Employees participated in the National Job Corps Association Groundhog Shadow Day Event on Feb 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. The student’s employees along with staff chaperones from each Career Technical Training area choose businesses which...

Carville Job Corps Center held its Seventh Semi –Annual Graduation Ceremony on January 21st.   Seventy- Three student employees received certifications in one of the 5 various Career Technical Training areas offered on center and a high school diploma/GED.  The...

What a challenge it was for Robert Sargent Shriver, who forty years ago created a successful program called, “JOB CORPS”. On January 26, Carville Job Corps Center students realized as they viewed the documentary video of the late Robert Sargent Shriver, that the...

v Carville Job Corps Center Leadership Committee held its second TOASTMASTERS MEETING on January 21st.  Louisiana District Governor- Jeff Harris and members the Baton Rouge club with gavel and podium tin tow  were surprised when Carville student leadership team...