JOB CORPS On September 9th, a few Voter Registration Volunteers visited Turner Job Corps Center to educate our student employees about the importance of voting and to assist them in signing up to vote. Our student employees were excited to have the volunteers on site. The...
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Muhlenberg Job Corps: Community Nursing Home Resident Writes Letter of Gratitude
A very endearing letter was shared with staff that was written by one of Greenville’s Nursing & Rehab residents when the Health Trade students celebrated CNA Week at the facility. In the letter, the resident spoke about how the Job Corps students had treated them...
Charleston Job Corps host’s guest speaker for National Suicide Prevention Month.
Charleston Job Corps host's guest speaker at the Monday Morning Business Meeting in honor of National Suicide Prevention Month. Mr. Mark Mason, Intervention Specialist from Prevent Suicide West Virginia, demonstrated the ACT Method to students and staff as a tool to...
Thanks to our Employer Partners
Thanks to our newest employer partners, AllCare Clinic and Walgreen’s on 49th Street N. in St. Petersburg, for providing internships to our students. The AllCare Clinic, located in St. Petersburg is working closely with one of our Medical Billing and Coding students...
NAMI and Whitney M Young partnership reaches new heights
It’s been a minute since Whitney M. Young Jr. Job Corps Center started its first-of-its-kind partnership with the National Alliance on Mental Illness. But with some time and cooperation, NAMI and Whitney have managed to make some excellent strides in bringing better...
Charleston Job Corps Partner with Whitney M Young Job Corps
Charleston Job Corps' Network Cable Installation students are working on the initiative to provide increased network connectivity at Whitney M. Young Job Corps. By enhancing technology-related areas of need, this center-to-center partnership initiative will provide...
Edison Job Corps Signs New Partnership
On August 30, 2022, Jay Okon, Edison Job Corps BCL, hosted Paul Akins of Davis Ulmer Companies, to Edison Job Corps to sign a Memorandum of Understanding. The signing of the MOU formalized EJCA’s workforce and training partnership with Davis-Ulmer Companies, a...
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Joseph Tio-Payne ~ STUDENT SUCCESS
Joseph Tio-Payne started his career at Muhlenberg Job Corps in September of 2019. With multiple challenges in the height of COVID, Payne made the difficult decision in December of 2020 to put his Job Corps career on hold, as he could not continue participating in a...
Muhlenberg JC Health Trades Celebrate CNA Week
Muhlenberg Health Trade students and instructors received an invitation to Greenville Nursing & Rehabilitation Home to celebrate CNA (Certified Nursing Assistants) Week. Events kicked off on June 20 and students participated with both staff and residents...
Charleston Job Corps Freedom Festival
The Charleston Job Corps employees and students celebrate during the Freedom Festival in recognition of the center's decision to waive part of the Covid-19 requirements. The staff and students had a terrific chance to mingle during this celebration and simply enjoy...
FedEx Freight Tours the Gary Center
DOLJobCorps (@Job Corps) Tweeted: A HUGE thank you to @FedEx for touring Gary #JobCorps (TX) and visiting with some stellar students. #DYK @DOLJobCorps actively partners with local and national organizations to provide the best hands-on training for students? Start...
Our Cleveland Job Corps Center opens up the gates to our Communuty…
Mission accomplished, Mr. Munn, OA Manager, and his OA staff deserve a Round of applause! Great turn around for our very first Open House post COVID 19. Everyone, on Center, together made it happen. And it feels great! Because TOGETHER. EVERYONE. ACCOMPLISHES MORE....
National Flooring Contractors Apprenticeship Program (NFCAP)
Gary Job Corps and NFCAP are working with local flooring contractors from LL Flooring to discuss Work-Based Learning opportunities that will initiate their career path in the flooring industry. We look forward to seeing our NFCAP participants transition from training...
Charleston Attends Mountaineer Challenge Academy’s Career Day
On June 22, 2022, the Charleston Job Corps OA Director, OA Counselor, and BCL attend a career day at the Mountaineer Challenge Academy's Montgomery location. The cadets were eager to pursue career opportunities that included military service, apprenticeships,...
CNC in the Spotlight on Center…Mfging visitors impressed.
On June 9th, 2022, we had special visitors join us for a CNC Machine- Open House. A "to go lunch" was on us, with a tour of Center grounds, after a "show & tell" gathering in our CNC Shop was facilitated by our CNC instructor Mr. Carlos Lemus. We opened up our...
Charleston Job Corps Student Succes
Carlos Torre-Piris, a Charleston Job Corps student, enrolled in the program on July 27, 2021, hoping to find a career path. Carlos chose to pursue the Medical Administration trade at Charleston through the center's partnership with Ross Medical, which he completed on...
Pipelines open up for job opportunities at CJCC…via collaborative efforts with the Cleveland Clinic
On June 3rd, 2022, Ms. Kimberly Peavy, Program Manager, and Talent Acquisition Scout for the Cleveland Clinic, that is “consistently ranked as one of the best hospitals in the United States”, was on Center. Announcing to our students, that the Clinic is opening up...
Pipelines open up for job opportunities at CJCC…
Cleveland Clinic was in the house here at CJCC last week represented. And the Clinic opens up the pipelines for job opportunities throughout the Clinic for our Cleveland Job Corps graduates, as Ms. Kimberly Peavy, Program Manager, and Talent Acquisition Scout, ...
Charleston Job Corps’ Students Install Electricity to Storage Garages
Network Cabling and Facilities Maintenance students at Charleston Job Corps collaborated on a project to provide power to the storage garages behind the Career and Technical Training Buildings. Many of the TAR requirements in the electrical component of their training...