JOB CORPS A native of Hammond, Indiana, AJCCs Leo Clark has been accepted into the elite Advanced Training program for Culinary Arts at the Treasure Island Job Corps Center in San Francisco, CA. While enrolled at AJCC, Leo successfully completed his culinary trade under the...
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INDYPENDENCE JOB CORPS ANNUAL EMPLOYER CAREER FAIR
Wednesday July 27, 2016 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Indypendence had their first annual job fair. The job fair was hosted and organized by Office Administration Instructor Mrs. Reynolds. The Fair offers HHA, CNA, and OA students a variety of local employers to speak...
Gadsden Students Assists Local Mission Center
7.13.16 Mrs. Mrs. Ayana Williams, CPP Instructor and four CPP students went to the Etowah Baptist Mission Center to help the Mission Center with the stocking of canned goods. The CPP students and Mrs. Williams went through all the cans of food that were donated to...
Gadsden CD Meet Mr. Mark Holden, Executive Vice President of Koch Industries
7.20.16 Mr. Juvenel Levros, Center Director, and Mr. Harold Carpenter, BCL Manager, attended the Alabama Fair Chance Employment Summit in Birmingham, AL. The Summit was hosted by the City of Birmingham and leaders from public and private sectors came from all over the...
ATTERBURY GRADS HAVE COLLEGIATE HOOP DREAMS
Who: Indiana Tech University - Fort Wayne, Indiana When: June/July What: College Basketball Try-Outs and Scholarship tour Residential Advisor Mr. Haymon, (submitted 3 articles this week), and took 6 students up to Fort Wayne Indiana to try out for the Indiana Tech...
BRICK MASONRY TRADE PROVIDING A PATHWAY
This week Mr. Flowers and his Brick masons began prep work to install a brick decking and walk way under a shelter house that sits between the male dorms in Watkins Plaza. As you can see there is quite a bit of planning and detail work that goes into these projects....
ATTERBURY HBI FACILITY MAINTENANCE ARE TITANS OF TILE
This week the HBI Facility Maintenance Trade took on the task of transforming a worn out dingy carpeted TV Lounge, into a treasure trove of tile. The two tone tile combination that they expertly laid down gives the lounge a refreshed and clean look. Unlike the old...
WRTV 6 ASHLEY BROWN TALKS POSITIVE CHOICES TO ATTERBURY FEMALES
Who: WRTV 6 Meteorologist, Ashley Brown When: July 6 2016 Why: Ladies Night Residential Advisor, Mr. Haymon, asked a connection, meteorologist from WRTV channel 6 News, Ashley Brown, to come and speak to the Atterbury female population on the centers “Ladies Night”....
Glenmont JCC and Albany County Residential Health Care form New Partnership
Glenmont Job Corps Center is pleased to announce a newly formed partnership with Albany County Residential Health Care Facility. This partnership began with communication between Mary Rosak of County Executive Dan McCoy’s office and Ann Marie Morin, GJCC Business...
Cement Students Go to Work
A group of Joliet Job Corps Center Cement students set the forms and then finished the new slabs of concrete for a picnic shelter in Winthrop Harbor, Ill. It was volunteer work. They were helping Trentin Heiny, a Winthrop Harbor resident, with his Eagle Scout project...
Careers Begin Here: Alaska Job Corps Center teaches Students to See Future Opportunities
Sometimes it is just ‘a way of looking at things’, which will actually expand and change one’s perspective. At the Alaska Job Corps, students are taught to look beyond the immediate horizon. They’re encouraged to investigate various options and side pathways....
Muhlenberg Job Corps assists local Library
During a couple weeks in July, several students and staff of the Muhlenberg Job Corps Center have moved out the Greenville library so the library can begin their remodel. These guys have put in numerous hours of manual labor and has been a very positive reflection in...
Turner Job Corps students participate in airport disaster simulation
65 TJC students participated as volunteer victims in an airport disaster simulation training. No actual blood was spilled, but students were in makeup to make the event more realistic for all emergency responders. Students portayed a variety of...
Students Volunteer at Aurora’s Feed My Starving Children
The Recreation Department took 12 students to volunteer at Feed My Starving Children on June 22. The non-profit organization and its volunteers pack boxes of meals that are distributed to hungry children in 70 countries. Before the students were able to begin their...
Kittrell JCC Students Visit Congressman George Holding’s District Office
On June 28, 2016, Kittrell Job Corps Center students Christian Peyton-Fisher, Sylvia Birdsong and Christina Graham along with Joan Robinson, Business Community Liaison Director, visited Congressman George Holding’s Raleigh, NC District Office. Students met with Alice...
ATTERBURY CNA GRAD JEFF GORDON RACES UP LADDER OF SUCCESS
He shares a Racing name, but our Jeffrey Gordon serves as a stellar model of how hard work, dedication, and focus can create achievement. Mr. Gordon is a native of Benton Harbor, Michigan. Upon AJCC enrollment, Jeffrey clearly knew that the Certified Nursing Assistant...
ATTERBURY IUPAT JOB CORPS GRAD BECOMES UNION APPRENTICE
Proud instructor and IUPAT Local 47 President, Kelly West, initiated Domonique Parker this month at the Local 47 Union meeting. He is working for a Union contractor, called Gibson Lewis, as a Drywall finisher. He starts his Apprenticeship schooling on August 8th....
ATTERBURY STUDENTS OLYMPIC VOLUNTEER EFFORTS
Atterbury Vocational Instructor Ms. Baker took a crew of students to the Olympic TEAM USA “Road to Rio” Kick-off event that took place in downtown Indianapolis. Students spent the day volunteering at the rock climbing wall, zip lines, registration tables, helped kids...
ATTERBURY & INDYPENDENCE MEDIA OUTREACH TAKEOVER
Atterbury and Indypendence have been masters of Media the last few weeks. Atterbury was featured in the Daily Journal Newspaper and online, in an article about Johnson County looking at ways to address the homeless population; the article then referred to the work our...
Charleston Job Corps Center, SGA sponsors clothing drive-July 2016
Charleston Job Corps Center's, Student Government Association is sponsoring a clothing drive to support victims of the WV Floods, June 2016. Staff and students are making donations of various clothing items that will be taken to the local Union Mission for...