JOB CORPS Charleston Job Corps is proud of our Career and Technical Training completers for the Month of April 2022. Our community partners are challenged to make Charleston Job Corps a viable option when seeking skilled laborers. Our students have worked hard to acquire the...
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For Christie Barlow, an education at Whitney M. Young was the foundation for a great career
School never really clicked for Christie Barlow until she tried Whitney M. Young Job Corps Center. But once it finally did, it changed everything. “I worked as a Cement Mason and I went for my GED,” she said. “When everybody else was doing typing and clerical, I was...
Whitney M. Young graduate returns, hopes to inspire new generation
Orlando Kershaw’s career has taken him from Whitney M. Young Job Corps…to Whitney M. Young Job Corps. Kershaw graduated from the cement program in 2019. “I heard from a friend of mine. He went to a Job Corps over in Indiana,” he said. “For a while I wasn’t too sure....
Team work for retention at our Cleveland JCC
Excellent Teamwork with student retention occurs daily at CJCC. Together Everyone Accomplishes More. Like the pieces of a puzzle, all pieces play an important part to complete the whole picture. Providing HOPE for a better future today, every day. All day. In all...
If you build it, they will come: Whitney M. Young student hopes to build towering legacy
For most people, it’s a bad thing to have your head in the clouds. But for Dylan Harris, it may just be the brightest future imaginable. Harris (Carpentry) has lofty dreams – both figuratively and literally. The Whitney M. Young Job Corps student wants to be an...
New SGA Executive Team steps up to the plate…
As our Cleveland Job Corps Center has prepared to receive new on boarding students again, our SGA Executive Team has stepped up to the plate to reinstate Center Extracurricular activities that promise to enhance our students after hours and weekends activities. They...
Cleveland Job Corps SGA 2022 “Phenomenal”TEAM
...when a group of "future leaders of our tomorrows", gets up and performs as our Cleveland (SGA) Student Government Executive Board performed today, it deserves a "standing ovation". We had a Virtual Assembly today. Spearheaded by our awesome Center Director, Ms....
HBI student reaching for the stars
Three HBI student are well on their way to meeting their end goal. Robert Turner, William Lopez and Emmanuel Vasquez have beat all odds by sticking to the plan through out COVID and are now ready to step in to the workf0rce. All three student are starting on WBL and...
TLJC Student Success
Our students here at Talking Leaves Job Corps have been working really hard to achieve their goals. Student Dyna Battles received her GED on February 10, 2022. Keep up the good work Dyna!
TLJC Student Success
Our students here at Talking Leaves Job Corps have been working really hard to achieve their goals. Student Kaitlin McCane works hard to stay on track, even through COVID, to obtain her GED. Kaitlin plans on going to Advances Training in the Culinary Arts field once...
TLJC student success
Our students here at Talking Leaves Job Corps have been working really hard to achieve their goals. Student Taryn Cunningham says, "TLJC helps keep her aligned with her life goals by offering the classes she needs". Taryn was able to stay on coarse through COVID and...
Flint Genesee Job Corps Alumni Accepted at Eastern University
Anthony Graham, worked tirelessly and received his High School Diploma as well as successfully completing the CNA trade offered at Flint Genesee Job Corps, in partnership with Charter Health Care. Soon after, he joined the Advanced Career Training (ACT) program in...
Whitney M. Young Job Corps Center begins first-of-its-kind partnership with NAMI
Whitney M. Young Job Corps is about to make history. The center has an on-campus group affiliated with the National Alliance on Mental Illness – one unlike anything seen at Job Corps before. Amy Worthington (LCSW), Whitney’s mental health consultant, said that the...
Charleston Job Corps’ New Wave Network Boosts WIFI
The Charleston Job Corps' Student Enterprise is currently putting its training to the test. Students from the Network Cable Installation trade are applying their skills by adding an outdoor Wifi access point in order to strengthen the wifi signal in the administration...
Ring that bell: Arturo Sanchez graduates Whitney M. Young JCC with his head held high
There was a time when Arturo Sanchez (Carpentry) really struggled. But that time isn’t now. Sanchez is Whitney M. Young Job Corps Center’s latest bell-ringer. He graduated March 9 and he’s headed off to a career with KI Lumber. Sanchez had a difficult time adjusting...
Youth Leadership San Marcos
The Youth Leadership San Marcos held their monthly meeting. The topic for March was about Local Government Day. The leadership group began at Hays County Commissioners Court and witnessed the flow of their. Then, they went to the SM City Hall to hear from the Interim...
2021 BJCC Winter Virtual Graduation
Bamberg Job Corps held it's Winter Commencement Exercises on December 3, 2021. Our keynote speaker was Shamari Moody. Shamari Moody is a native of Denmark SC and is currently an educator in the Aiken County Public School System. Shamari presented a power pack speech...
Job Corps Attends SC Works Career Fair On The Campus Of Denmark Technical College, SC
Bamberg Job Corps Human Resources Director, Latresia Wesley and Admission Counselor, Joseph Taylor shares scholarship and career opportunities with local students and citizens of the community. There were over 30 vendors participated.
Across the country, Whitney M. Young graduate Burdine has helped out
You may have seen Jay Burdine all around the country. During his interview, he was in Mississippi. Before that, he was in Kentucky, helping clean up damage from the recent tornado disaster. And even before that, he was in Hawaii. As an Americorps member, he’s seen a...
CTST:Urban Forestry
Urban Forestry CTST (Career Technical Skills Training) project 21.01: Picture was taken behind building 6. Students helping to remove 2 – 8” limbs from the propane tank that is fenced in. We used technical rigging to hoist the limb off the fence not causing more...