JOB CORPS “This has been a lot of fun,” stated Angel, a fifth grade student at Berry Elementary School in San Diego, “we play a lot of basketball and board games, and we’ve become friends.” The Bigs in School program involves a partnership between select San Diego elementary...
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San Diego Job Corps’ Color Guard “Presentation of Flags” at San Diego Padres Baseball Game
At the end of National Charter Schools Week, the San Diego Padres Baseball Team recognized charter schools’ contribution to education at their May 6, 2011 game against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Petco Park in downtown San Diego. “In January I learned of this special...
San Diego Job Corps Center Contributes $700 to Japan Relief Effort
Responding to the on-going crises in Japan, San Diego Job Corps Center's students and staff recently raised $700 for the people of Japan. "Our center staff and students are always generous when we conduct fundraisers for people throughout the world who need...
San Diego Job Corps’ Continuing Work at the North Island Federal Fire Training Facility in Coronado, CA
“During the past five years, San Diego Job Corps’ work at our Federal Fire Training Facility on North Island has saved the Department of Navy over $200,000,” advised Dave Salerno, Fire Inspector and Fire Training Center Manager at the base. “We anticipate an...
San Diego Job Corps Participates in VIP Mentors’ Community Kick-Off Event
“Three months ago the Home Builders Institute (HBI) and VIP Mentoring asked us to be part of a new program they were initiating,” advised Roberto Hinojosa, Career Technical Training Manager at the San Diego Job Corps Center. “The Department of Justice had awarded HBI...
San Diego Job Corps Students Assist Congressman Filner’s Office
On April 25, 2011, four San Diego Job Corps students assisted Congressman Bob Filner’s staff in the 51st Congressional District’s 19th Annual Arts Competition held at the Bonita Sunnyside Library in Bonita CA. The students, interns in the Congressman’s 51st District...
San Diego Job Corps Hires Gulfport Job Corps Graduate
Fifteen years after graduating from the Gulfport Job Corps Center, 33 year old Chandar Landrum is returning to Job Corps. The Huntsville, Alabama native was recently hired as a Resident Advisor at the San Diego Job Corps Center, where he will work with young people...
Jackie Robinson Family YMCA Benefits from San Diego Job Corps Students
During April 2011, (18) San Diego Job Corps Carpentry Trade students and their instructors performed several weeks of community volunteer service at the Jackie Robinson Family YMCA in San Diego. “This has been a good experience applying the skills we’re learning in...
San Diego Job Corps Contributes To Donate Your Old Shoes Organization
“I recently reconnected with a former classmate,” advised San Diego Job Corps Student Government Association Specialist Claudia Chavez, “and she told me about the Donate Your Old Shoes Organization and their mission: ‘Put shoes on the shoeless world’. From there I...
Record-setting Blood Drive at San Diego Job Corps Center
The student-organized American Red Cross blood drive at the San Diego Job Corps Center on March 14, 2011 resulted in the highest number of units of blood ever collected on center in one day. “We’ve been having blood drives for the American Red Cross and the San Diego...
San Diego Job Corps Partners with SD Housing Commission, Sherwin-Williams Company
For the second year, the San Diego Job Corps Center partnered with the Achievement Academy of the San Diego Housing Commission in offering their students a certificate painter’s training program by Sherwin-Williams. Job Corps students and rental assistance clients of...
San Diego Job Corps Graduate Offers Advice to Center Students
"There are great opportunities in the information technology field when you graduate from Job Corps," advised San Diego Job Corps graduate Gabriel Trujillo. Trujillo recently spoke to students in the Computer Technology Career Technical Training Program at the center....
San Diego Job Corps Students Participate in Groundhog Job Shadow Day 2011
San Diego Job Corps Students Participate in Groundhog Job Shadow Day 2011 “Spending the day working at the South Bay Unified School District was a valuable experience for me,” stated Ariel Beamon, a student at San Diego Job Corps, enrolled in the Office Administration...
San Diego Job Corps Winter 2011 Graduation
Friday, January 21, 2011 was a special day at the San Diego Job Corps Center. Two hundred and eighty students completed their academic requirements and Career Technical Training courses, and took part in the center’s semi-annual graduation. One of the proud graduates...
San Diego Job Corps’ Peter Lominit: Overcoming Adversity
“It has been a long, difficult journey to arrive at this place in my life,” stated Peter Lominit, sitting at his desk at Job Corps, where he works as the center’s Shipping and Receiving Clerk, “but I am happy and proud of what I have accomplished since I came to...
San Diego Welcomes Scripps Mercy Hospital Staff
In October 2010, eleven volunteer doctors, nurses, and administrative staff from Scripps Mercy Hospital visited the San Diego Job Corps Center and spoke with students about careers in the health care field. Among the groups in attendance were students in the center’s...
San Diego Job Corps Makes a Difference
“Our students and staff conduct thousands of hours of community volunteer service each year throughout San Diego County,” advised Frank Buttino, Business Community Liaison at the San Diego Job Corps Center. “It affords our students an opportunity to use skills they...
San Diego Job Corps Assists Barrio Station
“Job Corps has been a godsend for us. Without them, we couldn’t afford to fix our computers,” advised Barrio Station, San Diego founding member and Executive Director, Rachael Ortiz. “Eight years ago we partnered with the Urban League of San Diego County to build a...
San Diego Job Corps’ Award Winning Culinary Arts Students
During the second week of October 2010, four students from San Diego Job Corps’ Culinary Arts program participated in the 3rd Annual Culinary Expo at the Treasure Island Job Corps Center in San Francisco. Seventeen teams from Job Corps’ San Francisco Region took part...
San Diego Job Corps Assists San Diego Thunder Boat Regatta
In September 2010, San Diego Job Corps’ Carpentry trade once again took the lead in assisting at the 47th Thunder Boat Regatta held in Mission Beach, San Diego. This year, the Culinary Arts trade and the Computer trade joined the Carpentry students in helping out at...