JOB CORPS Name: DeAndre Jackson Age: 25 Center: Cleveland Job Corps Region: Chicago Hometown: Cleveland, OH Career Area: Carpentry Dates in JC: September 2015 - January 2017 Employer: Donley's Construction Company Position: Service Hand DeAndre Jackson knows the Job Corps...
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Carl D. Perkins Job Corps Students give their skills and time to support community
Students from the Carl D. Perkins Job Corps Center's Carpentry Class honored Martin Luther King Jr. a bit early when they performed a week of service Jan. 9-14 at Fitzpatrick Baptist Church in Prestonsburg, KY. Students Ismael Perez, Brandon Harless, Austin Justice...
Cleveland Job Corps What Are You Doing For Others ?
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?" Martin Luther King Junior. This year, the Cleveland Job Corps Center responded to that question by not just volunteering for one day, but throughout the week. Volunteering is part of the...
Cleveland Job Corps Congratulations Spring 2017 Graduates
Seventy-one graduates of the Cleveland Job Corps Center (CJCC) were recognized at commencement ceremonies on January 20, 2017. CJCC Center Director, William Houston welcomed the Spring Class of 2017 graduates and their guests. Angelique Wilson, CJCC Medical Assistant...
Blue Ridge Student’s Learning History, Providing Service, and Enjoying Fellowship
"Volunteers help drive our country's progress, and day in and day out, they make extraordinary sacrifices to expand promise and possibility," expressed President Obama during a proclamation. And the Blue Ridge Job Corps "Village" demonstrates that on both Martin...
Burdick Job Corps “Read to Lead”
The Quentin N. Burdick Job Corps officially kicked off their “Read to Lead” program last week. A group of students went to the local Barnes and Noble Bookstore in Minot, North Dakota, and participated in a reading event. The students read to a group of young toddlers...
Safety Today Secures Tomorrow at the Alaska Job Corps Center
The Alaska Job Corps Center does not take safety for granted. Their program is far more comprehensive than the standard safety program focusing on standard trips and falls. And that is why the Alaska Job Corps leads the way as a center with a strong safety culture....
MLK Community Service
Guthrie Job Corps Centers' Y2Y Ambassadors and staff volunteered at God's Food Bank. They divided up product and prepared it for disbursement.
National Reading Day
For the National Reading Day on January 23rd, SJCC student ambassadors visited the local Head Start center to read to the children. We all had so much fun, and can't wait to participate in Job Corps' Reading to Lead initiative on March 2nd!
From “Nothing to Everything” in less than 2 years
Andrew Bruketta is leaving the Alaska Job Corps for a job. And it isn’t just any old job. It is a highly skilled position, with excellent benefits, leave and expected to pay well over 60,000 a year. Andrew says frankly that Job Corps is whatever you make it. “Just...
Job Corps Works!
On January 17th, SJCC had a visit from one of our former trainees, Davontaye Jordan, who finished the program in July 2016. He reached out to us and asked if he could give back by visiting the center to speak to the current trainees. His words were inspiring. "I would...
Alaska Job Corps Students Serve The Homeless
It looked like a ski lodge at first, with people sitting on chairs and benches and wearing their parkas and hats. Nearly two feet of fresh snow surrounded the building. But missing from the ski lodge portrait was the fancy gear and bright colors. In fact some of the...
Cleveland Job Corps Alpha Omega Chapter Centennial/Founders’ Day Celebration
The Cleveland Job Corps Center received a "Legacy Community Partners Award" from Alpha Omega Chapter on January 15, 2017. Cleveland Job Corps Center Director, William Houston was invited to sit on the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., and Alpha Omega Chapter...
MLK Jr. Day of Service!
On January 11th, SJCC students participated in Job Corps' MLK Jr. Day of Service. Over the month of December, students and staff gathered as many donated scarves as possible. Last week, we drove to Cesar Chavez park to tie the scarves on trees to help keep the local...
Blue Ridge Job Corps Students Participate in MLK Parade
On Saturday January 14, 2017 Blue Ridge Job Corps students joined with Appalachian Peace Education Center in celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King. It began with a intergenerational forum at Charles Wesley United Methodist Church in Abingdon Virginia . The...
Martin Luther King Annual Breakfast
Brunswick Job Corps Staff members attended the Martin Luther King Annual Breakfast sponsored by Coastal Georgia Community Area Action Agency.
Charleston Job Corps Center wishes you a very Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to all of our students, staff, vendors, Community Relations Council, Workforce Council, Work Based Learning Partners and center supporters. We look forward to great things in 2017 as we provide academic and career technical training for 21st century...
Cleveland Job Corps and the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) and Cleveland Job Corps Center (CJCC) completed a Memorandum of Understanding that will give CMSD students an opportunity to obtain career training in construction and healthcare at the CJCC. The federally funded program...
CLEVELAND JOB CORPS WORKFORCE SUMMIT
Multiple employers in the North-east Ohio Manufacturing sector, community stakeholders, politi-cal representatives, and non-profit companies related to man-ufacturing training; in addition to education institutes Cuyahoga Community College and Cleve-land Metropolitan...
CLEVELAND JOB CORPS MOM’S FIRST PROJECT
On Friday, November 21, 2016, Cleveland Job Corps Cen-ter Medical Secretary, Rolanda Wilson hosted a community support event with MOM’S First Project for the Cen-ter’s prenatal students. Bridjetta Levison, MOM’s First Project Case Manager offered the prenatal students...