JOB CORPS Students from the Jacksonville Job Corps Material Handler's class participated in a week long volunteer community service project with the Material Handling and Support Operations of Jacksonville. The Christmas Party of Jacksonville is a program in which numerous...
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Long Beach Students Work with Community Members to Make City Greener
Long Beach Job Corps students recently joined forces with community members to make the city greener. The students worked with 7th District City Council member James Johnson, city staffers, and Long Beach residents to plant 14 trees on 33rd Street in Long Beach. Under...
Spirit of Giving…
After working in the Arkansas Food Banks warehouse, organizing donations for the barren shelves Ms. Janet Ingram (l) presents the Food Bank’s Outreach Coordinator Ms. Katherine Kaigler with a Little Rock Job Corps Tee-Shirt & Recyclable carry bag.
Smoking Cessation Workshop to Return 2012
Ms. Joyce Raynor (Center for Healing Hearts & Spirits), partnered with Wellness, to kick off the “Tobacco Prevention & Smoking Cessation” program at Little Rock Job Corps. Over 30 students and staff signed up for the launch of the program. The program does...
Little Rock Signs Two BIG WBL Partnerships
Little Rock, has just signed two new Work Based Learning partnerships. Security Courses has signed up to work with the Parks and Recreations Department of Little Rock. There is a discussion to add other courses to this. This came about, because we partnered with them...
Northlands Students Clean Up Neighborhood
“It doesn’t really matter about getting noticed for doing this,” a student said. “What matters is that we took a little time for an activity worth doing.”
Flint Genesee Job Corps on Students on ABC News!
Students from the Flint/Genesee Job Corps Center were busy making a difference in various activities in our community, to include working alongside the Habitat for Humanity. Students from the hard trades (brick, painting, and masonry) worked on their 4th new home and...
Flint Genesee Job Corps Makes a Difference!
The Flint Genesee Job Corps Center recognized "Make a Difference Day", the largest national day of helping others – a celebration of neighbors helping neighbors, in a big way. Students in all trades were seen throughout the city of Flint, giving back and "making a...
Talking Leaves Job Corps Students Volunteer on National Make a Difference Day
Click on the attached link for the full story: http://www.cherokee.org/PressRoom/32784/Press_Article.aspx
“Give Life Donating your Pop-Cap”
The Activity was called “Give Life Donating your Pop-Cap”. This activity was held on Arecibo Job Corps Center of Puerto Rico. Our partners were Lions International Club Association. Our trade’s students organized a contest between each trade to “Make a Difference Day”...
Gerald R. Ford Job Corps Center Students Participate in Local Park Clean-up Project!
Over 20 students and 4 staff members of the Gerald R. Ford Job Corps Center spent their morning of October 21st assisting the City of Grand Rapids with a clean-up project at the local Lincoln Park in honor of Make A Difference Day. Students raked leaves, picked up...
CARE Ownership Partners With The Dow Chemical Company And Pittsburgh Job Corps To Restore Blighted Properties
In today’s economy, it is remarkable what organizations can do when they work together. Through the combined generosity of CARE Ownership, The Dow Chemical Company, InsulRight, and the labor of students learning the construction trade at the Pittsburgh Job Corps...
Anaconda Job Corps CCC partners to make a difference for MADD 2011
For Make A Difference Day (MADD), four Anaconda students and one staff partnered to replace an old bridge that had fallen into disrepair and contributed to subsequent flooding and closure of a local ATV trail. Over the course of two weeks this month, 14...
Clearfield student becomes first Job Corps Solar success story.
When the Solar 8 program started at Treasure Island Jose Mota was assigned as an interpreter for another student who had joined the program. Jose transferred to the Solar program after completing the electrical trade training program at Clearfield Job Corps. Jose...
Dream Machine Recycle Rally
On October 7, 2011 it was reported by "The Dream Machine Recycle Rally Team" that the Guthrie Job Corps Center has been ranked 25th out of more than 500 schools in terms of total pounds of bottles and cans recycled over the last three months. This gives the Job Corps...
Proyecto Especial de Job Corps
KLUZ News September 29, 2011. 05:02 PM Albuquerque, NM- Estudiantes de Job Corps en Albuquerque se unieron a un grupo de ingenieros para construir un hábitat sumamente especial. Por medio de este proyecto estudiantes tendrán la oportunidad de practicar sus habilidades...
Volunteering Hard Work to Care for the Land and Serve the People
ANACONDA, MT—National Public Lands Day (PLD) was last Saturday, September 24, 2011. As an integral part of the Forest Service, Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers (JCCCC), such as the one west of Anaconda Montana, are available to support projects to improve...
Building a “Comfort” Library
At Potomac Job Corps, we strive to offer the most comprehensive menu of learning and training in everything we do. A comfort library is one example of our efforts to reach success in the most diverse manner possible. The new comfort library will incorporate all...
Gardening at Potomac
The Potomac Job Corps Brick and Carpentry trades designed a community garden to encourage healthy eating habits, teach environmental education, and to help students learn more about organic gardening. Square foot gardening, container gardening, propagation techniques,...
Woodstock: Former Student Daniel Oakes Is Just Warming Up
Daniel Oakes, a former Woodstock Security student, is now traveling all over fighting fires. Daniel first came to Woodstock from Virginia on December 1, 2009. He completed his Security trade and in October 2011 transferred to the Schenck Job Corps Civilian...