Excellent Teamwork with student retention occurs daily at CJCC. Together Everyone Accomplishes More. Like the pieces of a puzzle, all pieces play an important part to complete the whole picture. Providing HOPE for a better future today, every day. All day. In all...
New SGA Executive Team steps up to the plate…
As our Cleveland Job Corps Center has prepared to receive new on boarding students again, our SGA Executive Team has stepped up to the plate to reinstate Center Extracurricular activities that promise to enhance our students after hours and weekends activities. They...
Cleveland Job Corps SGA 2022 “Phenomenal”TEAM
...when a group of "future leaders of our tomorrows", gets up and performs as our Cleveland (SGA) Student Government Executive Board performed today, it deserves a "standing ovation". We had a Virtual Assembly today. Spearheaded by our awesome Center Director, Ms....
We got the call… 🙂
When 4 students got together to participate in a Valentine's skit to invite our Congressmen and women to join our Friends of Job Corps CAUCUS on February 14th, they were excited. And confident that they would deliver a...
Councilman Michael D. Polensek attends Signatory
Councilman Michael D. Polensek, representing Ward #8 in Cleveland, attends Signatory Event where Mr. Ramon Serrato, from Serrato Corporation signs the Hispanic Promise on March11th, 2022. The Hispanic Promise is the...
…17 years have gone by. Look at her now.
...17 years have gone by. Look at her now. A name came across my desk last month. Patient-Centered Care Staffing Agency. Shamika Wilson, Founder, BSN, RN, CCM. Interested in partnership. Talking about "Paying it forward" Called Ms. Wilson. She wants to...
“Never Give Up Never Quit”
Never Give Up Never Quit...and become a RAKTIVIST. What is a RAKTIVIST and what does a RAKTIVIST do? Simple. We randomly spread HOPE and "get caught" providing Random Acts of Kindness. Encouraging others to never give up and never quit. This month of February,...
CJCC welcomes 11 new students “on board” 🙂
Yesterday, 02-15-22, we Welcomed 11 new students of 12 expected to our Cleveland Job Corps Center. (CJCC) That is a great number, and Mr. Marquis, Residential Counselor in our H Dorm, reports today that "they all seem to be in very good spirits, with a positive...
Local Organization provides warmth…
New students arriving here at our Cleveland Job Corps Center benefit from local organizations generosity. This winter has been cold. And here on Center, at Cleveland Job Corps, we welcomed the opportunity to be the recipients of The SPOT Youth Empowerment...
Students learn “Why Members of Congress are so important to our Job Corps Centers”.
Several students at our Cleveland Job Corps Center learn, as they prepare to separate from our Center, being completers; the importance of gaining our Members of Congress, (MOC's) support. After hearing that their support makes a huge difference for all students and...
Embracing the reality…
My heart overflows with happy flutters and HOPE for a better future today. Had the honor to monitor lunch time at our Cafeteria today. Here at our Cleveland Job Corps Center (CJCC); since transitioning into the Business Community Liaison position, I had not seen my...
Friendship Wall published
Our Cleveland Job Corps Center Story was published in the Euclid Observer Newspaper. Featuring our Friendship Wall and story behind it; as the Friendship Wall will be “Immortalized” at our Cleveland Job Corps Center. The story will be reaching over 5,000 readers. And...
Passing on the “torch” Positive Affirmation Friendship Wall
The Power of "Positive" at Cleveland Job Corps Center continues... Your mind believes what you tell it. So always tell it positive things. This thought inspired our Friendship Wall in one of our Dormitories here, at our Cleveland Job Corps Center, back when COVID 19...
Cleveland Job Corps Virtual Workforce Council Meeting
On October 21, 2021, Cleveland Job Corps Center Director Cathy Williams welcomed thirty attendees to the virtual semi-annual Center Workforce Council meeting. Representatives from University Hospital, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, NEON Health Center, International...
Cleveland Job Corps Student Miquel Beckham Determined to Succeed
“Job Corps helped me develop my leadership skills,” said eighteen-year-old Miquel Beckham. “It made me realize I needed to start taking the initiative.” The Cleveland native was just a minor when he arrived at the Cleveland Job Corps Center on September 16, 2019. “I...
Cleveland Job Corps Joins the Fight
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Cleveland Job Corps Center planned activities and a fundraiser around breast cancer awareness. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, no matter...
Cleveland Job Corps Center Was The Perfect Option For Me
Ya’Riah Preston graduated from Beachwood High School in Beachwood, Ohio, in 2018. After learning about the career training opportunities at Job Corps, he enrolled. “Job Corps was the perfect alternative to college, that’s not to say I am not going, but at the time, it...
Cleveland Job Corps Providing Tools To Succeed
Job Corps Providing The Tools To Succeed Gregory was no stranger to hard work. Before attending the Cleveland Job Corps Center, he worked as a stocker for Buckeye Tools. To move forward in life, Gregory understood the need for a high school diploma. His plan, enroll...
Cleveland Job Corps Celebrates 2021 Graduates
Cleveland Job Corps Celebrates 2021 Graduates To commemorate the fifty-one Cleveland Job Corps Center students who victoriously completed the program, the center hosted their 10th Annual “National Job Corps Commencement Day” ceremony on September 17, 2021. Due to...
Proud of His Accomplishments
“There is no elevator to success you have to take the stairs. It is all a process you just have to stick with it,” said JuJuan Pinson reciting Zig Ziglar’s quote. “Every student that comes to the Cleveland Job Corps should know and apply this quote he recommended.”...