JOB CORPS Collbran Job Corps honors the veterans of our center and country yearly. This year, each veteran was presented with a plaque with their name and a short biography of their military service.
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Collbran Job Corps Center “Make A Difference Day”
Collbran Job Corps participates in the national clean-up days under its various titles such as "Make a Difference Day", Arbor Day, or Earth Day. Each staff member has a team of students assigned to them. The teams go out and do various activities for the town such...
Collbran Job Corps Center presents the play “Fiddler on the Roof”
Collbran Job Corps students present the play “Fiddler on the Roof.” Students starred and did all phases of play production. There were four performances at the local high school for the community, staff and students.
Codllbran Job Corps Center and District School Board
Collbran Job Corps presents their 9/11 commemoration power point at the monthly school board meeting. Collbran Job Corps student representative to the school board, Alexis Chavez, went to a school board conference with school board members. She gave a talk about Job Corps and met many high school students from around the state.
Collbran Job Corps Graduation
Collbran Job Corps Center had two prominent speakers at the October 2015 graduation. Both speakers had daughters graduating. One speaker is the superintendent of the Great Smokey National Park and the other is a former Collbran student and successful businessman.
Collbran Job Corps and Annual Safety Review
Collbran Job Corps Center consistently has excellent safety review outcomes. A safe center is accomplished by ALL students and staff by watching out for each other and potential problems. A quick response to ameliorate safety issues is vital for good health and safety.
Collbran Job Corps assists with Special Olympics
Collbran JC students and Special Olympics partner up to bowl.
Collbran Job Corps “Glow Run”
Collbran students assist with high school athletes’ evening fundraiser.
Collbran Job Corps Center and Recycling and Trash Audit
Collbran Job Corps Center has a successful recycling program. Students learn the importance of recycling and how much can be reused.
Collbran Job Corps Center hosts its quarterly Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food
The USDA encourages all centers to provide “Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food” education. Collbran Job Corps along and through its Community Relations Council hosts three to four such programs a year on center.
Collbran Job Corps participates in Colorado Mesa University slam poetry contest
Collbran Job Corps students participated in Slam Poetry contest at university
9/11 Collbran Job Corps Commemoration
Collbran Job Corps Center commemorates 9/11 in a moving tribute for its tenth annual tribute.
Collbran Students Ambassadors at State-wide Event
Collbran students served as Ambassadors at state-wide conference Think Big, Colorado's biannual conference that brings together youth practitioners from around Colorado, along with state and local government staff, to discuss and learn about methodology and programs...
Doubletree Hotel hosts Collbran Job Corps students
Collbran Job Corps' Office Administration Technology and CISCO Networking students enjoyed Ground Hog Shadow Day at Grand Junction's Doubletree Hotel. OAT student Andrea Montreal said hotel managers talked with students about the hospitality industry; gave students...
Collbran Job Corps Students Serve as Election Judges
Twenty-six Collbran Job Corps students were sworn in as Election Judges, serving November 2nd and 6th. Heather Bennett, Supervisory Guidance Counselor, reported that when students arrived for duty in Clifton, Colorado, a town of approximately 21,000 residents,...
Collbran Job Corps Students Hear VP Candidate Paul Ryan
When Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan spoke at Colorado Mesa University five Collbran Job Corps students were there with Rachel Nelson, Grand Mesa High School/Collbran Job Corps Social Studies Instructor. Students have been learning about the candidates and...
Tree Sculpture Honoring FS Built by Collbran Job Corps
When Gove Aker, Center Director, Collbran Job Corps, asked Russ Sibert, Collbran Job Corps' Welding Instructor, to conceive a means to showcase a brass plaque commemorating 100 years of the existence of the U. S. Forest Service that would protect the plaque from...
Collbran Job Corps Students Invite Candidates to Center
Collbran Job Corps students are interested in learning more about candidates and participating in the voting process. With that in mind, students recently invited Jana Bingham Gerow, candidate for Mesa County Commissioner, and Timothy Menger, Libertarian Party...
Student of the Month featured in local newspaper
An article honoring Collbran Job Corps student Patrick Coleman was published in the Plateau Valley Times recently. Coleman's Job Corps career was outlined in the article, describing his realization that following moving out on his own, and working at a...
Qualified to do Anything – headline describing Collbran Job Corps graduates
The Plateau Valley Times recently published a full page story that featured August graduates of Collbran Job Corps. A photo of the 11 graduates accompanied the article, which included quotes from four of the graduates. "As a group, the graduates overwhelmingly...