JOB CORPS In the Wednesday, July 6, 2011 edition of the Floyd County Times, two photographs along with extended captions and articles were published that focused on recent achievements by students at Carl D. Perkins Job Corps Center.
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Northlands’ Jack Mayer Wins Notable Book Award
Northlands doctor Jack Mayer says he wasn’t planning on writing a book about the Holocaust, but a magazine left on his desk grabbed his interest…
Joliet Job Corps’ New A Team: Men Share Stories to Encourage Youth
Joliet Job Corps partners with other community agencies to help urban youth avoid gangs, prison
Kittrell Job Corps Fluor Job Corps 2011 Scholarship Recipient
Kittrell Job Corps Center 23 year-old Fluor Job Corps Scholarship recipient, Adam Blanton enrolled at Kittrell Job Corps Center in January of 2010. He’d already earned his high school diploma and completed his trade in Health Occupations by April, 2010. During his...
Star Student at Finch Henry Job Corps Center
Grace Health and Rehab of Grenada, MS has been an employer partner with Finch-Henry Job Corps for several years. Most recently, they hired graduate Jaquita Simpson, CNA, a native of Charleston, MS. In an recent employer feedback, Staff Development Coordinator, Lynn...
Northlands Student Gets Way Out of Her Comfort Zone
As an Urban Forestry student, Molly regularly climbs 60 feet up in trees with a chainsaw. “It’s gotten me way outside of my comfort zone,” she said. “I kind of surprised myself. I’ve grown a lot in Urban Forestry…”
Finch-Henry Job Corps Students Shadow Congressmen
Teressa Turner (left) spent the day with Congressman Alan Nunnelee (center), show with Roger Givens of the Finch-Henry Job Corps Center. Alex Hunter (right) spent the day with Congressman Bennie Thompson. Two students from the Finch-Henry Job Corps Center were...
Hartford Job Corps is ‘Ticket to College’ for Boston Area Native
The Hartford Job Corps Academy has been Cristina Grace’s ticket to college. Her long journey to higher education began years ago after graduating from high school in her hometown of Norwood, MA. She had planned to go right to college and study nursing, but she...
The Pies Fly at Northlands Job Corps Academy
Faculty and staff at Northlands Job Corps Academy in Vergennes, Vermont volunteered to be the targets of whipped cream pies…
Iroquois Job Corps Spring Graduation Ceremony
The Iroquois Job Corps recently held one of its largest graduation ceremonies with more than 130 graduates receiving completion diplomas. Key note speaker Stephen Huston of Rochester, NY reflected on over 25 years of experience working with at-risk youth from the...
Exeter Job Corps Academy Students Meet with Senator Jack Reed in Washington, DC on May 17, 2011
EX Leadership Students with Senator Reed Exeter Job Corps Academy (EJCA) Leadership students attended the 2011 Adams & Associates Annual Leadership Conference in Columbia, MD and Washington, DC during the week of May 15. EJCA staff Gabrielle Andos and students...
EJCA 2011 Graduation Alumni Keynote Speaker is Hired by Lockheed Martin
EJCA '09 Alumni Edson Cardoso, recent 2011 Spring Graduation keynote speaker secured employment in June 2011 with Lockheed Martin in Atlanta, GA. Mr. Cardoso will be earning over $18.00/hr and is hired for the position of sheet metalist. Mr. Cardoso graduated from...
Another Exeter Job Corps Welding Student Hired by Electric Boat/Quonset Point
Another student success story with EJCA Electric Boat welding partnership! Manufacturing Technology graduate Raquel Pereira was hired on May 9, 2011. Raquel was a 2011 Spring Graduate who completed the Maufacturing Welding program. She was hired for the fabricator...
Carl D. Perkins Job Corps Culinary Team Advances to Final Round at Culinary Arts Expo
When the smoke cleared at the 2011 Job Corps Culinary Arts Expo in Mays Landing, New Jersey, held this year from June 13 through June 17, four aspiring chefs from the Carl D. Perkins Jobs Corps advanced to the final round, finishing fifth overall to secure the spot....
Homestead Job Corps Graduate Encourages Others to “Be Your Own Person”
Charles M. recently completed the U.S. Dept. of Labor’s Homestead Job Corps Center program. At age 24, Charles is mature beyond his years. “From what I’ve been through, I’ve learned it’s better to be different and your own person than to follow others.” He speaks...
Woodstock Job Corps: Woodstock Graduate Lands Job at BG&E
On Friday, June 20, 2011 Garret Gross, a former Woodstock graduate and Electrical student, came back to Woodstock to lend a helping hand. Gross is the first of Woodstock’s graduates to be accepted into the BG&E training program and graciously spent his personal...
Successful Alaska Student Completes Job Corps Program
Successful student completes Alaska Job Corps Center program “This is the first book I’ve ever read,” says Chao Her, a student at the Alaska Job Corps Center. Chao holds a book entitled, “Mentor—The Kid and the CEO,” by Tom Pace. It’s not a costly book but Chao...
Philadelphia Job Corps Graduate Hired at Volt Management Corporation
Philadelphia, PA – Lashawna Bingham working and stronger than ever. After obtaining her Administrative Medical Assistant certification (AMA) Lashawna thought she was big time. Then upon separation in September, 2010, Later, she thought, finally as a Job Corps...
Bamberg Job Corps Ranked #1 in Atlanta region
Center Director Eric Jones announced that the Bamberg Job Corps Center has been ranked 28th of 122 Job Corps Centers throughout the country. The reality, he explained, “is that we are number one the in the DOL Atlanta Region. There are four Job Corps Center in...
Bamberg Job Corps Students Donate $1,080 to Red Cross
A group of very active Job Corps students donated a $540.00 collection with a matching $540 DESI Corporation for the Japan Relief Efforts to the Bamberg Chapter of the American Red Cross last week. "This is very significant," said Red Cross chapter executive director...