JOB CORPS NEWS

 Former Treasure Island Job Corps Center  Facilities Maintenance  student; now renowned rapper with recording contract with Columbia records Kreayshawn (Natassia Zolot )  was featured in the SF Chronicle of 12/22/2011. She was featured in SF Chronicle giving credit to...

Our students received acclaim and a feature in the main Chinese Bay Area Newspaper- "Sing Tao" “ Sing Tao” is the #1 NEWSPAPER for the Chinese, Cantonese, Mandarin etc speaking population- Chinese Press in the Bay Area, and has a HUGE readership. It is a HUGE boon to...

In December, our Facilities Maintenance students were honored at festive luncheon for Stellar work on Treasure Island’s lovely Pavilion. Some of our students have been hired to work on our island such as our Security Students to support "TI Flea" by proprietors...

  Last week, several students and staff drawn from TIJCC’s Solar, Advanced & Basic Culinary, and Construction Trades programs highlighted new green skills learned as part of the "Go Green" event held on center. The event was covered by 106 KMEL, a popular radio...

TIJCC/Advanced Culinary student featured on KTVU "Bay Area People" www.ktvu.com/community)   　 Shawntae did a great job of sharing some "tidbits" about the center and the advanced Culinary program. 　We even had 　mouthwatering pictures of her 　final project for the...

in a recent community project between the Treasure Island Job Corps Construction Trades Crew and Wine Valley Catering; our students receieved a well earned kudos for the quality of their work. So good, that owner and proprietor of Wine Valley Catering, Ms. Lorene...

Treasure Island Job Corps Chef Discusses Student Nutrition at Washington Summit Visits White House Food Garden, Competes against Other Job Corps Chefs 9/16/2011 – Cafeteria Manager Ray Galicia of Treasure Island Job Corps joined other Job Corps chefs from across the...

On Monday, April 11th, six hardy Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) students awoke at the crack of dawn (3:30 am to be exact!) to join 2136 other health care professionals who signed up to serve as volunteers in the Remote Area Medical (RAM) volunteer clinics held in...

Between April 15th and 17th, approximately 100+ Treasure Island Job Corps students joined millions of other youth across the globe to celebrate Global Youth Service Days - three days set aside to encourage youth worldwide to participate in a variety of community...

Treasure Island Job Corps & Chinese Newcomers Center Collaborate on Food Drive – San Francisco Chinatown Date of event: Thursday, November 18, 2010 Over 200 trainees and 15 instructors from Treasure Island Job Corps' Security, Academics, Office Assistant and CMA...

Every week, Mr.  Shamont Waters, his  CPP (Career Prep) classes 2 and 4 and the rest of the Instructional team for CPP 2 and 4 make a "pilgrimage" to the SF  Food Bank for one purpose: serve. As part of development exercises, the students are shepherded to the San...

In Feb. of this year- 2011, Treasure Island Job Corps staff and students were honored to receive a visit from the office of Congress Woman Barbara Lee. The Congress Woman has established a Work Based Learning office in her Oakland office and has provided opportunity...

It has been a gratifying experience to have as our CRC chair Ms. Margena Wade. Through her support of our students, we were able to get some paid opportunities for our Construction trades students to participate in a SEMINAL work such as the rebuilding of the Bay...

Out of the Mayor's office of the City of San Francisco, the Neighborhood Empowerment Network (NEN) hosts an award ceremony each year to honor organizations doing noteworthy work here in our fair City.  This year's event was quite the extravaganza of community and...

Now that things are slowing down for the winter, we thought we'd catch you up on what we've been doing over the past few months!      The Treasure Island Urban Farm officially broke ground, this past Spring… twice!     The second ground-breaking was our center-wide...