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Wind River Job Corps Kicks off Women’s History Celebration

Wind River Job Corps will be celebrating Women's History throughout the month of March. The efforts kicked off today with the first 3 of 15 posters appearing all over campus - in trades, the dorms, rec center, wellness, cafeteria and more. Students nominated the women...

Wind River Job Corps Students Contribute Video Expertise

Students coming to Job Corps bring their own baggage, as well as their unique talents and skill sets acquired over the years. This was very fortunate for the team at Wind River Job Corps in Riverton, Wyoming as we struggled to produce a video profile worthy of the...

Wind River Job Corps Launches New Communications Tool

Students and staff can now feel they know more about what's going on around the Wind River Job Corps since we launched a new digital and hard copy newsletter, WRTalkAbout. While a limited number of hard copies are available on campus, students and staff received the...

WIND RIVER JOB CORPS STUDENT HELPS PEOPLE SMILE

Few things are as important as a smile for I’Javya Hogue, new graduate of the dental assistant program at Wind River Job Corps. From the Riverton, Wyoming campus, she will head to a position at the Smile Direct Club in Denver. The “hard” skills she learned in the...

OUTSTANDING Posters Inspire Wind River Job Corps Peers

RIVERTON, WYOMING - The Wind River Job Corps unveiled a new, student-focused "OUTSTANDING" campaign this past week with a series of 5 posters. Each poster tells the story of a recent graduate - where they came from, where they are going, the obstacles they overcame...

FROM SHY TO SHINING: WIND RIVER JOB CORPS STUDENT STEPS OUT

Cassidy Suedekum, recent Wind River Job Corps graduate, has a favorite quote from A. A. Milne, “You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” This is a very appropriate quote for the young woman from Firestone, Colorado, who left...

WIND RIVER JOB CORPS OFFERS GRADUATE AN ESCAPE TO A BETTER LIFE

Some lives head down a hard road. A young woman without a job, in an abusive relationship and exposed to drugs doesn’t have a lot to look forward to. Luckily for Keana Silletto, she was thrown a lifeline by her best friend who had already been attending Job Corps. On...

WIND RIVER JOB CORPS STUDENT ON ROAD TO WELL PAYING CAREER

The first thing Abel DeLuna did when he arrived at Wind River Job Corps was get his high school diploma. That was just the start of his successful journey. After working as a laborer at a paving company in Commerce City, CO with his dad, he had decided to look for a...

WIND RIVER JOB CORPS STUDENT BREAKING BARRIERS

Michaelia Moses didn’t come to Wind River Jobs Corps because she wanted to break barriers. Even so, that’s what she’ll be doing when she takes her first job in the petroleum industry, where only 15% of the highly skilled employees are women. Michaelia came to WRJC and...

Faces from Wind River Job Corps, Riverton Wyoming

Breanna Shakespeare is a 20 year old Northern Arapaho Tribal Member from Fort Washakie,WY is studying office administration. Kaitlyn Hart from Penrose,CO is studying carpentry. Daniel McElderry from Butte,MT and Gabe Shotgun, from Wind River Indian Reservation,an...