JOB CORPS Hurricane Sandy has passed but its aftermath is still being felt by numerous families on the east coast. Heeding the call for help students from the Keystone Job Corps Center partnered with students from the Holy Family Academy helping sort and load supplies bound for...
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Keystone Experience Leads to Career Opportunity
After living in the United States for three years Mussie S. was searching for an avenue that could change his life. With limited English and job skills he knew he had to do something to affect this change. He became excited when learning about Job Corps and the...
Keystone Supports American Cancer Society
Eighteen students from the Keystone Job Corps Center's certified nursing assistant class helped the local chapter of the American Cancer Society with their annual Daffodil Day fundraiser. The students volunteered to help wrap and bundle over 6,000 daffodils that were...
Keystone Kicks Off 2012 Blood Drives
On Tuesday, February 21, Keystone had its first of what will be five scheduled blood drives this year. Jacqueline Dercole an account manager for the Northeastern Region of American Red Cross proclaimed the drive a success with the center reaching its goal of 84...
Leadership Hazleton Attends Keystone Job Corps Center
On February 9, 2012 the Keystone Job Corps Center hosted Leadership of Hazleton's annual cultural diversity meeting. Leadership Hazleton an affiliate of the Greater Hazleton Chamber of Commerce helps develop community leaders through education and community service...
Keystone Celebrates Dr. King’s Life
The annual observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Day was celebrated by students and staff at the Keystone Job Corps Center on Monday, January 16. This year's program centered on a challenge to each of the center's nine dormitories to create banners commemorating Dr....
Keystone Concludes 2011 Blood Drives
In concert with the American Red Cross the Keystone Job Corps Center conducted its fifth and final center-wide blood drive in 2011. The November drive netted an additional 86 units; bringing the grand total to 455 for the year. In 2012, Keystone will continue its...
Keystone Supports Breast Cancer Awareness
Helping to make a difference, the students and staff of the Keystone Job Corps Center raised $1,600 for the American Cancer Society. In observance of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month the center joined together sponsoring and hosting a variety of activities...
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett Tours Keystone
It is not often that a state's highest elected official takes time out of their busy schedule to learn about Job Corps; however that was the case on November 2, 2011, when Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett toured the Keystone Job Corps Center following an address to...
Keystone Observes Red Ribbon Week
With the theme "it's up to me to be drug free" the Keystone Job Corps Center conducted a variety of activities helping students and staff be aware of their responsibility in keeping themselves drug free. The week long activities (beginning October 24th) included a...
Keystone and Red Rock Job Corps Centers Form Partnership
Forty-four students from the Keystone and Red Rock Job Corps Centers joined together to help the Bloomsburg Fair prepare for a weekend of food and fun. The annual Bloomsburg State Fair was cancelled last month due to severe late summer flooding. However, when the...
Keystone Assists Disaster Relief Effort
Working with the American Red Cross, students and staff from the Keystone Job Corps Center were quick to volunteer help to victims of late summer flooding in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Assistance began when the center housed 78 Red Cross first responders from across...
Keystone Places First In Regional Skills Competition
Keystone Job Corps Center received first place for the third consecutive year in the 7th annual "Career Technical Skills Training Competition" sponsored by the Philadelphia Region of Job Corps. Students were recognized for their craftsmanship on construction projects...
Keystone Promotes Breast Cancer Awareness
With October dedicated to Breast Cancer Awareness, staff and students began a month long information and fund raising effort by sponsoring a bake sale. The activity supported with home made baked goods prepared by staff netted over $300. This was a great start to...
Keystone Supports Relief Effort
In response to a call for help from their local chapter of the American Red Cross the Keystone Center was designated as a shelter for volunteers assisting in disaster relief efforts. The center housed 78 volunteers from all parts of the United States from...
Keystone Hosts Family Day/Open House
The Keystone Center held its annual Family Day/Open House on Thursday, September 1st. The day was fun filled, but more importantly an opportunity for parents to talk with staff to become more aware of their son or daughter's accomplishments and for the community to...
Keystone Float Honors 9/11 Responders
Students from the construction trades joined together to assist the Hazleton Heights Fire Company. Several months ago the Keystone Center was approached about building a float for the annual Greater Hazleton Fun Fest Parade on September 11th. This year's event was...
Keystone Hosts Penn State Freshmen
On Saturday, August 20th the Keystone Job Corps Center hosted 160 incoming freshmen from Penn State's Hazleton Campus. The purpose was to assist them with their first service learning project through the University's orientation program. Just as Keystone impresses on...
Keystone Hosting District Academic Olympic Competition
The Keystone Job Corps Center will host this year's Job Corps Academic Olympic district competition at the Hampton Inn/Top of the 80's in Hazleton, PA on August 25th. Participating centers are: Delaware Valley, Glenmont and Iroquois all from New York along with the...
Representative Toohil Keynote Speaker at Keystone
The Keystone Job Corps Center will host one of 124 graduation ceremonies nationwide on August 30,2011. The occasion marks the signing of the Economic Opportunity Act by Lyndon B. Johnson on the same date in 1964, creating Job Corps. The graduation will take place in...