JOB CORPS It wasn't the first time New Orleans Job Corps students JarDan Williams and Theresa Randle fed the poor and homeless at St. Jude Community Center on the edge of the city's French Quarter but they never tire of the experience. "The first time I did it I was worried...
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New Orleans Job Corps Student is Making Her Own History
Nina Cressey is proving true the old adage that great things do indeed come in small packages. While standing a diminutive 4 feet 9 inches tall, she has been making some big things happen lately. Since arriving at New Orleans Job Corps Center, she has achieved three...
NOLA Job Corps Student is Making Her Own History
NOLA Electrical Students Visit GreenBuild International Expo
“The most amazing thing about the house was it felt better. It felt healthier and it looked natural,” said New Orleans Job Corps Center Electrical student James Morgan about The LivingHome at GreenBuild- a net-zero electricity demonstration home that was the...
New Orleans Job Corps Teams with NOLA Trash Mob to Clean-Up
NOLA Trash Mob likes to say their business is picking up. Last week it did just that with some assistance from New Orleans Job Corps students. On Friday, the two organizations teamed up to cleanup a local park as part of Global Youth Service Day 2014- an event that...
NOLA Job Corps Students Volunteer at NBA All-Star Game
Dwayne Barnes, one of thirty New Orleans Job Corps Center students who worked at the NBA All-Star Game Jam Session last weekend, says it is an experience he won’t ever forget. It’s not every day that you have a brush with greatness. Dwayne was in elite company. He saw...
Job Corps Student from New Orleans Will Share Culinary Skills in Africa
Newettp://blog.nola.com/new_orleans/2014/02/job_corps_students_from_new_or.html//blog.nola.com/new_orleans/201When KBR, a technology engineering procurement and construction company based in Houston, contacted Odle Management Group, the operator of New Orleans Job...
NOLA Job Corps Students Play Secret Santa for the Elderly
In keeping with the spirit of the season, New Orleans Job Corps Center students employed the element of surprise to the delight of the elderly residents of St. Anthony's nursing home this week. The students played "Secret Santa" as they walked in unannounced bearing...
NOLA Job Corps Participates in “Sleepout” for Homeless Youth
It was a chilly, rainy November night on the edge of the New Orleans French Quarter as 93 community leaders traded creature comforts for sleeping bags and cardboard in an event that raised over $220,000 for the city's growing homeless youth population. Covenant House,...
New Orleans Job Corps “Night Out Against Crime” Event Covered by WGNO-TV ABC 26
New Orleans Job Corps recent "Night Out Against Crime'" event brought together the Center with the surrounding Hollygrove neighborhood and received news coverage from WGNO-TV ABC 26. Food, face painting for kids and a live DJ were among the night's activities for an...
New Orleans Job Corps 2013 has Largest Class ever of Graduates
New Orleans Times-Picyaune NOLA.com 9/20/ 2013 http://blog.nola.com/new_orleans/2013/09/new_orleans_job_corps_graduate.html New Orleans Job Corps graduates walked across the stage to receive their diplomas during the Center’s recent commencement exercises Sept. 14 at...
NOLA Med Student Interns at Local Radio Station
Bob Dylan called it his favorite radio station in the world. WWOZ is the official station of Jazz Fest. In June and July, Keitshal Alexander, a Medical Office Support student at New Orleans Job Corps Center, had a chance to work there as part of Mayor Landrieu’s NOLA...
NOLA Electrical Students Featured on WVUE-TV FOX 8 News
Joe and Gloria Robert were honeymooners when floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina swallowed their home in the Lakefront area of New Orleans. Almost eight years later, New Orleans Job Corps Electrical students, in partnership with the non-profit St. Paul's Homecoming...
TV Personality and Motivational Speaker Havilah Malone Inspires at NOLA Awards Ceremony
Pardon Havilah Malone if patience is not her favorite virtue. After all, this is a woman who knows that the average female lifespan is 80 years or 29, 220 days and it's never been in her psyche to waste any one of those days. She has always been in hurry to...
New Orleans Councilwoman Presents Citizenship Awards, Offers Mentoring
New Orleans City Councilwoman LaToya Cantrell presented "Citizenship Awards" to Carpentry student Jerome Russell and Health Occupation Technology student Courtney Williams saying both are "putting their best foot forward- not doing it for accolades or attention- but...
NOLA Job Corps’ Medical Students Serve as Ambassadors at NCAA Women’s Final Four
Serving as an NCAA Women’s Final Four Ambassador in New Orleans held a special meaning for Lameisha McCrary. The Health Occupation Technology student played basketball for McDonough 35 High School before entering Job Corps. And, Lameisha says she was so uplifted by...
Mayor’s Aide Nadiyah Coleman Shares Her Success Story with NOLA Job Corps
Nadiyah Coleman’s success story has been filled with twists and turns and pleasant surprises. Borrowing a phrase from Alicia Keys, this girl is on fire. She has been a flight attendant, “I wanted to travel and see the country,” a nurse, lawyer, summer camp director,...
NOLA MEDICAL STUDENT INTERVIEWED ON WDSU-TV
New Orleans Job Corps Medical Office Support student Lequana Shaw told WDSU-TV's (NBC) LaTonya Norton that, "Job Corps really helped me out a lot. It gave me the opportunity to get my diploma and a trade. It's just a wonderful program and I would recommend it to a lot...
NOLA Job Corps Students Volunteer in Super Bowl Park
Super Bowl XLVII was the 3rd most watched television program of all time, and an incredible live experience for 70,000 at the stadium; 90,000 at NFL Experience, and hundreds of thousands at Super Bowl Boulevard and New Orleans Job Corps students helped make it happen....
Sixty-Two Receive Diplomas in NOLA’s Largest Graduation; TV News Anchor Tells Grads to Seek Out Role Models
New Orleans Job Corps graduates walked across the stage to receive their diplomas during the Center's commencement exercises Saturday morning at Loyola University. It was the Center’s largest graduation ever with 62 students receiving diplomas. The graduates filed in...