JOB CORPS Angelina Lewis, Certified Nursing Assistant and Philadelphia Job Corps completer works at Independent Homecare as a Home Health Aid (HHA). Angelina is full time earning over $11 dollars an hour. Independent Homecare staff state, “we love her, find her very...
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Philadelphia Job Corps College Students Proud Recipients: Hershey Contributes to Culinary Arts Center
Philadelphia Job Corps College Students Proud Recipients: Hershey Contributes to Culinary Arts Center Hershey continues to encourage quality education to students with drive ambition and a desire to achieve. A number of culinary arts students can expect an...
Personal Chef Catering Operation Will Hire Philadelphia Job Corps Students
The owners, husband and wife team, Matthew and Sharon Pierce have been operating The Personal Chef, Customized Catering & Design for over nine months. The operation specialty is private parties; catered events; seafood; desserts; and take out Personal Chef began...
Philadelphia Job Corps Explores Tri-Green Program
Susan Shaffer, Tri-Green Outreach Coordinator in a meeting today explains to stakeholders the Tri-Green Certificate Program: “FREE” Pre-Apprenticeship. The program is a non-traditional partnership between organized labor, employers, and the public and private...
Philadelphia Job Corps Student Goes to TCU/IAM
Philadelphia, PA – Christian Paulhill, separated from the Philadelphia Job Corps and transferred to the Transportation Communications Union/International Association of Machinists (TCU/IAM) program at the Excelsior Springs Job Corps Center, MO. When Christian first...
Philadelphia Job Corps Students Help: Ronald McDonald House Gets New Equipment
Twenty-five Job corps students completed over 500 hours of community service volunteering at the Ronald McDonald House. The students helped load and unload new and old equipment. They also assisted in removing old bed and mattresses and replacing them with newly...
Philadelphia Job Corps Student Hired At Little Flower Manor
Philadelphia, PA – Sekisha Moody, Certified Nursing Assistant (C.N.A.), working after her June separation from Philadelphia Job Corps, is excited and feeling pretty good. Sekisha admits it was difficult to balance work, home and training, but says, “sure it gets hard...
National Job Corps director applauds Philadelphia Job Corps pilot program
National Job Corps Director Edna Primrose traveled to the Philadelphia Job Corps Center last month to see first-hand the progress of the Center’s Start Young Initiative pilot program. Twelve students from the Center started the program on April 10 and completed it on...
Philadelphia Job Corps Students Receive Lessons from Culinary Master
Local Philadelphia celebrity Chef Joseph Poon, known for his superior Asian fusion cuisine, paid a visit to the Philadelphia Job Corps Center on May 23 to give cooking lessons to culinary arts students. “Front and center, look at me,” repeated Chef Poon to the focused...
Philadelphia Job Corps Students ‘Victims’ in Annual Disaster Drill Hosted by Thomas Jefferson University Hospital/Methodist Division
Philadelphia, PA - Thomas Jefferson University Hospital/Methodist Division conducted their annual City-Wide Disaster Drill today. Hospitals must be prepared to respond to natural and manmade mass casualty incidents that may cause sudden demands on services. Sixty...
Philadelphia Job Corps Students Go “ENTREPRENEUR”: Job Corps and SBA Resource Partners Pilot
Philadelphia Job Corps, launched their first class today with fifteen (15) enthusiastic students embarking upon a nine week learning experience with an entrepreneurship focus. Start Young Initiative: A Partnership between SBA and DOL, is a Job Corps National Office...
Philadelphia Job Corps Student Hired At Morgan Chiropractic Center
Philadelphia, PA – J. Harris Administrative Medical Assistant hired from clinical rotation. The Morgan Chiropractic office is no ordinary office. It’s an extremely busy office, patient/labor driven and no room for poor irresponsible customer service but flawless...
Philadelphia Job Corps Join American Heart Association, “Love Your Heart” Day
Heals wellness program encourage center-wide effort to healthy eating and information distribution and by popular demand encore exercise, ‘let’s move’ step continues toward a healthy mind, heart and body. On February 14, 2012 the Philadelphia Job Corps Life Science...
Philadelphia Job Corps Medical Assistant Students Take First Steps Toward a Successful Career
Eight Philadelphia Job Corps students were accepted in a 10 week Drexel Medical Assistant (MA) paid training program. Several students were considered for this competitive training. After careful screening, Philadelphia anxious and excited MA students were accepted...
Serving Up Holiday Goodies
Philadelphia Job Corps Center culinary students and their chef instructor prepared and served free holiday pastries and desserts during a cooking demonstration at La Cucina at the Market in Philadelphia's famed Reading Terminal Market. The scrumptious menu included...
Model Employee: Emergency Medical Technician Opens Doors
American Medical Response team has nothing but wonderful things to say about Shamirah Powell, who is an excellent worker and role model for others. July 2010, Shamirah Powell enrolled in the Philadelphia Job Corps Life Science Institute (PJCLSI) filled with wonder and...
Congressman Fattah Announces $37 Million Job Corps Grant
PHILADELPHIA, PA -- Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA-02) announced today that the Philadelphia Jobs Corps Center will receive $37,384,542 from the U.S. Department of Labor over the next five years to continue training young Philadelphians for economy-lifting employment....
Philadelphia Job Corps – Drexel University Employment Opportunities for Certified Medical Assistants
We are thrilled about employment opportunities announced today by Community Relations participant, Ms. Ireland, SPHR, Director West Philadelphia Skills Initiative with University City District. She shared recruitment search at the meeting while circulating flyers to...
Philadelphia Job Corps Hosts Youth Service America City Visit
Philadelphia Job Corps collaborates with Youth Service America (YSA) in a networking initiative to engage, share and provide on-going quality service to young adults. Philadelphia Job Corps students and staff were in rare form today preparing a “show and tell” of...
Philadelphia Job Corps Center-Wide Campaign, “Join In Saving A Life”
Students and staff are making a difference to “save a life”. Twenty-five Student/staff registered with the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP), a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating opportunity for patients to receive bone marrow when needed. The need is so...