JOB CORPS http://heraldnews.suntimes.com/photos/galleries/index.html?story=12068648 Joliet Job Corps appeared in an April 23 story about a county-wide Global Youth Service Day in the local newspaper, The Herald News. Two students who are part of the Corps' Bucket Boyz also...
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“Going Green” in NOLA: New Orleans Hosts Green Fair
By Randy Savoie New Orleans Job Corps Center medical trainee Jessica Flores says she has always been interested in the environment and last week's Green Fair just made her more passionate about "Going Green" "I've always been interested in the environment," says...
Trapper Creek Participates in Annual Earth Day Activities!
Trapper Creek Job Corps students "pitch in" to celebrate Earth Day and Global Youth Service Day. Each weekend in the month of April, numerous students have volunteered their time to help make a difference and make our county beautiful. Among these volunteers are...
Penobscot GYSD pt.4
Brewer Housing Authority and City of Brewer Storm Drain Project
Penobscot “mobilizes” 127 students and staff to participate in Global Youth Service Day!!
Bangor Housing Authority 4/20/12 Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) is an annual campaign that celebrates and mobilizes the millions of children and youth who improve their communities each day of the year through service and service-learning. Established in 1988,...
Anaconda JCCCC and Global Youth Service Day
Anaconda, MT-- Anaconda JCCCC Student Government Association (SGA) president, Andrew Edersheim, led the way for Job Corps and 18 of his fellow students. On Saturday, April 21st, the local Family Resource Center hosted Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) at numerous sites...
SJCC Earth Day event on center
SJCC held there annual Earth Day event today, staff and students participated in planting trees, flowers and put down bart in flower beds through out the center. All staff and students had Earth Day everyday T-shirts on as everyone participated in a different areas on...
EJCA students celebrate Women’s month
EJCA female students started their Women's month celebration with great speakers and role models. On March 9th, Catalina Martinez, a strategic member of nationally recognized marine oceanographer Dr. Robert Ballard locator of the Titanic. She is an inspirational...
EJCA is Fueling a Greener Rhode Island
EJCA recently developed a partnership with Newport Biodiesel and is reycyling the center's cooking oil into clean burning biodiesel to heat homes and power vehicles throughout Rhode Island. Biodiesel is a renewal, non-toxic locally produced fuel that can be used in...
Career & Education News
Shreveport Job Corps Center student leaders, accompanied by staff, attended the Northwest Louisiana Small Business Summit on February 17, 2012. The students had an opportunity to talk with local vendors about their businesses, and shared tips with the students to...
Little Rock Job Corps Center “Keep[ing] Little Rock Beautiful!”
The Little Rock Job Corps Center participated in "Keep Little Rock Beautiful" city cleanup for the second straight year. The Center students and staff cleaned the street in front of its current location, Scott Hamilton Drive. They also cleaned a local park (Wakefield...
Carpentry Graduate Student testifies along with Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis
Graduate carpentry student, twenty-two year old Nate Ford, was selected to testify along with Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis before the Committee on Education and Workforce to the U.S. House of Representatives on March 21st. During the testimony, Secretary Solis...
Anaconda JCCCC–Going Green for the Ides of March
Anaconda Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center (JCCCC) which lies in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest of southwest Montana opened its doors in mid-March of 1966. Forty-six years ago, Tim Moriarty, an Irishman from Butte and Anaconda JCCCC’s then deputy...
Northlands’ New Wind Turbine Featured in the News
“It’s a terrific symbol for the Job Corps program,” spokesman Ian McGaughey said. “The turbine is a very visible representation of our commitment to reducing CO2 emissions in Vermont and elsewhere.”
Turner Job Corps Students helping with construction of downtown projects
ALBANY, GA -- Between the Downtown Art Park and Albany Theatre project there was a lot of discussion at tonight’s Albany Dougherty Inner City Authority (ADICA) meeting. The conversation about projects like these led back to one main discussion point: Getting local...
Old Dominion Job Corps Center’s Green Team Believes in “Earth Day Every Day”
Students at Old Dominion deserve recognition for working in the cold to recycle cardboard boxes on Center.
Working with Municipalities
Potomac Job Corps’ Ground Hog Day program began with a big bang. Students began the annual project by shadowing Forest Heights municipality on January 30th . Students from four trades assisted the Forest Heigths Police Department and Mayor Goodall in daily tasks. ...
Finch Henry Job Corps Now a tobacco free Center
Finch-Henry Job Corps Center offi cially celebrated its new status as a tobacco free campus with a ribbon cutting last week. Students, staff members and local offi cials, including (from left) Donna Smith, Ina Bibbs, Gladys Ellis, Quinlan Williams, Sonyama Jackson,...
EPA
Potomac Job Corps has been invited to assist the GWARDC ( Anacostia Environmental Group) in preparing and distributing fertilizers for neighborhood trees. This project is funded through the U.S. Solid Waste and Emergency Response.
Students recognized on “Chevrolet Celebrates 100 Years of Production”
Students mural was recognized on MSNBC.com on Chevrolet Celebrate 100 years of production. The city of Flint is known for numerous GM plants which were throughout the community - the slideshows and picture stories shared history of the production of Chevrolet....