JOB CORPS NEWS

Humphrey student volunteers spent the last Saturday of their summer break helping at the Lyngblomsten Mid-Summer Festival. This event attracted over 1500 visitors to enjoy food, games, artists and entertainment on the Lyngblomsten campus. 140 musicians and actors...

Seventeen skilled trade unions participated in a hands-on expo on the grounds of Hubert H Humphrey to give our young people and other students the chance to learn about the building trades and find out about apprenticeships. The unions set up stations around the...

Hubert H Humphrey held its Summer Graduation on August 8, 2014. There were seventy-six graduates with fourteen platinum card-holders among them. Thirty of the graduates completed in health care fields, Certified Nursing Assistant and Medical Office Support. Medical...

Three students from Humphrey graduated from the EMS Academy, Tarence Wade, Ravinia Walker and Yessica Perez-Montoya. These students and previous graduates from Humphrey have completed either Medical Office Support or the Certified Nursing Assistant programs. The Saint...

Humphrey students were volunteers at the annual Community Clean-up, a three-district effort that recycles and disposes of several hundred tons of debris from the neighborhoods. Furniture, bikes, TVs and other useable items are given to groups that help families in...

Four Culinary Arts students from HH Humphrey were chili chefs at a fundraiser for a Mendota Heights police officer shot to death during a routine traffic stop. Officer Scott Patrick left behind a wife and two daughters and the money raised will go into the Scott...

Congressman Erik Paulson, R-MN 3rd Congressional District, visited Humphrey Job Corps to tour the center and meet with students working on their skills. He visited classrooms and chatted with students, asking them about their trades and their plans for the future. It...

“My employer told me the Job Corps students I sent him were professional, polite and well-spoken and he’d hire a hundred if he could!” commented Seth Wellnitz, a recruiter from Command Center, during a lunch at Humphrey. Hubert H Humphrey hosted an Employer...

Hubert H Humphrey hosted its annual District 10 Pancake Breakfast fundraiser on the campus, an event that has become a neighborhood tradition, held on the last Saturday before Halloween. The board members of the district order in the ingredients and then come and cook...

In 1976, a small group of committed women came together to address a deadly disease. Their goal was to increase community awareness around chemical dependency and its systemic consequences. With committed hearts and a defined vision, Perspectives was born. Now almost...

Hubert H Humphrey held its 50th Anniversary Job Corps celebration on August 20th, 2014 It was in two parts: the first portion of the event was a formal recognition ceremony that opened with welcoming remarks by Dave MacKenzie, Center Director, with speakers that...

Hubert H Humphrey held its annual celebration to announce the winners of the Career Success Standards Awards. Modeled on the Academy Awards, this is a formal occasion for staff who presented the awards. More importantly, it is an opportunity for students to walk down...

Hubert H Humphrey held its Winter 2015 graduation on Friday, February 20th. Ninety-six different certifications, GEDs and High School Diplomas were recognized. This class was distinguished by its eleven platinum gold cardholders. One, TCU student Taneisha Grosset,...

Nineteen students on work-based learning assignments and twenty-three Job Shadow students from Hubert H Humphrey participated in the Groundhog event. Sites included hospitals, care centers, painting crews, the Minnesota Senate, police headquarters, the Western...

Hubert H Humphrey held its Reality Central event for all students on the center. It is a simulation of entry into the work world after Job Corps. Because keeping a job is dependent on understanding, planning for and managing other parts of life, the students get to...

Humphrey hosted a Career and Resource Fair on the campus, attended by all the students, including the very new and the recently completed who came back to attend. It was an opportunity for students to have the experience of speaking to a potential employer. Only...

Thirty Humphrey students volunteered for the annual Festival of Nations held in St Paul, MN. Students helped exhibitors from over eighty cultures set up their displays and then act as information guides and helpers during the days that school children come from all...

Humphrey’s Transportation Communication Union (TCU) students participated in National Train Day, an event that drew thousands to the Jackson Street Roundhouse railroad museum. National Train Day is celebrated at depots and railroad museums all over the U.S. on the...

Hubert H Humphrey held a Red Cross drive on its campus last week. Forty-three students volunteered and thirty life-saving pints were collected. Yvette Whitebird and Autionna McGee, nursing assistants in training, worked at the check-in desk to make sure that...

Humphrey nursing and medical office support students attended a medical careers job fair for career exploration with exhibitors for employment at veterans’ homes, nursing homes, group homes, memory care programs and clinics. Some of the employers were well known to...