JOB CORPS The Milwaukee Job Corps Center’s Healthy Eating Active Lifestyles Committee has provided a variety of opportunities for students to get involved in Healthy and Active Initiatives. In January, the committee promoted healthy lifestyle changes. During their lunch hour,...
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GenMet Manufacturing Company Hires MJCC Student
Milwaukee Job Corps Center Welding student Jesse Hernandez is hired full time after completing his unpaid Work Base Learning Assignment at GenMet Manufacturing Company.
Charter Automotive Hires Job Corps Student
Milwaukee Job Corps Center Manufacturing Student Kelly Wily was excited that after his completion of unpaid Work Base Learning assignment at Charter Automotive, he was offered a full time position.
Milwaukee Job Corps Center Utilizes Innovative Teaching Methods
GED students from the Milwaukee Job Corps Center participated in hatching baby chicks in the classroom. After consulting with HVAC instructors and students, the class built an incubator using a lamp kit, foam cooler, PC fan, and a re-purposed cell phone charger. The...
Milwaukee Job Corps Center Participates in 5K Run/Walk
Students and staff from the Milwaukee Job Corps Center participated in the 5K Jingle Bell Run/Walk to support the Arthritis Foundation. The run/walk was held at the Milwaukee County Zoo. Participants dressed up with Holiday accessories, including jingle bells on their...
Milwaukee Job Corps Center SGA Leaders Attend National Leadership Conference
Student Government Leaders accompanied by staff attended a Leadership Conference at Camp Horizons in Harrisonburg, VA on November 5, 2012 to November 9, 2012. Milwaukee Job Corps Center SGA Leaders met with SGA Leaders from several other Job Corps Centers from across...
Milwaukee Job Corps Center Students Build Playground for the Community
Students and staff from the Milwaukee Job Corps Center worked along side other neighborhood organizations to build a playground in the local community. Students spent two days working on the project. The first day the Cement Masonry students prepped the site, and the...
Milwaukee Job Corps Center Students Assist Milwaukee Police Department with Training Exercise
Twenty-eight Milwaukee Job Corps Center students participated in a community service event with Citizens and Organization Activities and Disasters. The students worked with the Milwaukee Police Department SWAT team to simulate a hostage situation during a SWAT Team...
Milwaukee Job Corps Center Soccer Team Embodies Multicultural Awareness
The Milwaukee Job Corps Center's soccer team is a kaleidoscope of cultures and ethnicities. From Burma to Thailand, Mexico to Puerto Rico, Tanzania and the good old United States they range in all shapes, sizes and colors. This team truly epitomizes the Career...
Milwaukee Job Corps Center’s Health and Wellness Initiative
On September 24th, thirty-three staff and fifty-two students from the Milwaukee Job Corps Center began a center-wide health initiative to lose weight. The center’s focus is on healthy eating and active lifestyles; while educating the students about the ways good...
Milwaukee Job Corps Student Interns with US Congresswoman
Milwaukee Job Corps Center student, Deonte Delane-Harris is working as a Constituent Liaison in the office of United States Congresswoman Gwen Moore. Delane-Harris met District Director, Ms. Lois O’Keefe and other staff members from the Congresswoman’s office a few...
Former Job Corps Student encourages Student Leaders at Milwaukee Job Corps
The Milwaukee Job Corps Center honored the student leaders at the August Leadership Banquet. The guest speaker at the banquet was former Job Corps student, Aldred Walters, who attended Blackwell Job Corps Center in northern Wisconsin at the age of 16 and completed...
Milwaukee Job Corps Center Works to Provide School Supplies for Community Kids
Thirty-two Milwaukee Job Corps Center students volunteered to support the local annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Back-To-School Festival which provides local youth with free book bags packed with school supplies. Local youth who are unable to obtain the necessary...
Milwaukee Job Corps Center Visited by Assistant Secretary Jane Oates
Jane Oates, Assistant Secretary for the Employment and Training Administration of the United States Department of Labor, visited the Milwaukee Job Corps Center. MINACT, Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer, Booker T. Jones and MINACT, Inc. Vice President of...
Milwaukee Job Corps Center’s Students Participate in Universal Safety Week
Students and staff of the Milwaukee Job Corps Center worked cooperatively to recognize Universal Safety Week (June 11-15). Throughout the week, students and staff participated in safety drills, presentations from the Milwaukee Police Department and the Milwaukee Fire...
Milwaukee Job Corps Center Offers Entrepreneurship Course
The Milwaukee Job Corps Center, in partnership with the Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corporation and the Small Business Administration, celebrated the graduation of their students from the Start Young Initiative Entrepreneurship Program. Students presented...
Milwaukee Job Corps Security Seargent called a hero for saving a life
Department of Workforce Development Visits Milwaukee Job Corps
Dept. of Workforce Dev. Sec. visits Milwaukee Job Corps 4:34 pm, January 31, 2012, by Katie DeLong DWD secretary Reggie Newson MILWAUKEE — A recent UW-Milwaukee study that found less than 50 percent of black males living in Milwaukee between the ages of 16 to 64 were...
Milwaukee Job Corps Center Commencement
The Milwaukee Job Corps Center held its first commencement activities on January 7, 2012. Just a year after receiving students, the center saw 48 students walk across the stage to receive their certificates of completion. The staff, students and families were filled...
MJCC Students Shared Holiday Cheer
Students from the Milwaukee Job Corps Center shared the holiday cheer with residents at Community Care. The students, accompanied by Ms. Ruth Shank, the Arts and Crafts Instructor, went caroling at the Community Care facility. Community Care is a private, non-profit...