JOB CORPS In honor of African American Heritage month, Training Manager Theodore Dues welcomed the Charleston, WV, Chapter of the Buffalo Soldiers Motorcycle Club to Charleston Job Corps Feb. 25th. The Buffalo Soldiers shared a video presentation about the history of the...
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Student Excels at BridgeValley Community and Technical College
A former Charleston Job Corp Student Tyla Wise was honored as the Student of the Month for February at BridgeValley Community and Technical College. Tyla is continuing to pursue an Associate Degree through BridgeValley’s 2+2 program for Elementary Education while...
Charleston Job Corps Students Join Bullseye Program
Students Tytianna Burns and Seauna Jones completed the OA Trade and entered into the Bullseye Program to work with the Hilton Hotel Resort after completing the necessary 5-week training. After completing the training, the students will become full-time employees of...
Youth Case Managers from Career Connections tour Charleston Job Corps
Three Youth Case Managers from Career Connections toured Charleston Job Corps center to see what Job Corps has to offer our youth. Sheri Bond, Kari Lowe and Alisa Nichols have been working with at risks youth in the area of Parkersburg, WV and surrounding cities. The...
Charleston Job Corps volunteers within the community
Charleston Job Corps students enjoyed the experience of working in the community by serving a hot meal to the homeless population on Sunday, January 26. Students were excited to help in the community. Demetrius Owens shared in the experience. He says, he felt good and...
Charleston Job Corps students volunteer and participate in City of Charleston MLK Celebration
Charleston Job Corps students were participants and volunteers during the City of Charleston’s historical event of naming a prominent street in the downtown historical Triangle District after the civil right leader, the late, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Senators,...
Charleston Job Corps Student Success!
Charleston Job Corps graduate John Fleming is being featured as the Alumni/Graduate of the Quarter for the month of December, 2019. John Fleming graduated from the Charleston Job Corps Center, operating under Horizons Youth Services, in August, 2015. Fleming completed...
Charleston Job Corps students on assignment for Work Based Learning
Charleston Job Corps students on assignment for Work Based Learning as a part of the career and technical training provided through the Job Corps program. Students are able to gain on the job training and experience through working with community organizations through...
Charleston Job Corps students work internships to gain experience
Aisha McGill, pictured working at her work-based site of Southmoor Hills Apartment Complex, began her internship on November 18, 2019 and works three days a week in the main office. Under the guidance of the site supervisor, Aisha is being trained to assist...
Charleston Job Corps provides on the job training through partnerships
Artia Pittman pictured with the nurse practitioner in Dr. Kahwash’s office also of Kanawha Endocrinology through Thomas Memorial Hospital has been assigned to the work-based site since October 28, 2019. Artia checks in, organizes, and documents the medications on site...
Charleston Job Corps Honors Veterans
Staff and students watch the safety cadets perform the colors drill during the Monday Morning Meeting on Veterans Day. All veterans both staff and students were honored during the meeting. A reception was also held later in the afternoon for our Veterans.
Foodie Fest a Great Success with Volunteer Efforts of Charleston Job Corps Student
Twelve Charleston Job Corps students accompanied by the BCL, Nancy Shepherd volunteer during the annual Foodie Fest fundraising event hosted by the YWCA of Charleston at the Beni Kedem Temple. Though, not your Mother’s Thanksgiving! Charleston’s appetite for fun,...
Charleston Job Corps Centers Youth 2 Youth hosts Domestic Violence Awareness Assembly
The Charleston Job Corps Center recognized Domestic Violence Awareness Month with a guest speaker on Oct. 10 during the Monday business meeting. Students and staff heard from Kenyatta Grant, community organizing coordinator with the West Virginia Coalition Against...
Charleston Job Corps visits Lincoln County High School
Charleston's BCL, Nancy Shepherd, presented to parents and students during an evening training session at Lincoln County High School on October 1, 2019. Charleston Job Corps partnered with the Workforce Investment Board of Region 2, in an endeavor to enlighten...
Insights Outreach and Admissions hosts’ Block Party style Career Fair
Insights Outreach and Admission in collaboration with Charleston Job Corps Center held a block party/career fair on the west side of Charleston on September 20. The block party included food, drinks, games, music provided by Say Uncle Entertainment, and vendors. ...
Carpentry Trade student’s from Charleston Job Corps collaborate with KML Carpenters Local 439 and Make A Wish Foundation on a project for a local child.
Nine carpentry trainees from Charleston Job Corps, along with their instructor, Tommy Fitzwater, were asked by the Carpenters Local Union 439 to help with a project the Make A Wish Foundation had planned for a disabled child in Procious, WV. The child was born with...
Volunteer WV speaks of the AmeriCorps Program to Charleston Job Corps Career Transition Readiness Students.
Dana Bryant of Volunteer WV, was a guest speaker at the Charleston Job Corps Center on September 18, to bring awareness of the opportunity afforded by AmeriCorps. Dana a former AmeriCorps Vista participant, shared her stories and gave examples of aid and assistance...
Region 2 Workforce WIB Tours Charleston Job Corps Center
Charleston Job Corps held a meeting and tour on September 16, with the West Virginia Region 2 Workforce director and all caseworkers in the region. The reason for this meeting was to allow the caseworkers to view our facilities. Shepherd, the center’s BCL, thought...
Charleston Job Corps Student Join “Omega Gents” Mentoring Program
Charleston Job Corps student became a part of the Omega Gents. The purpose of the Gents Mertoring Initiative is to empower young males to succeed in life. This workshop is based on social learning, wherein the mentors (Brothers of Xi Alpha and Theta Psi...
Charleston Job Corps student joins the Union
Da'shawn Sykes, a current student in Charleston Job Corps' painting program operated by the Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT), recently completed several painting assignments in the community as a part of his work-based learning. His work ethic and skills,...