The Charleston Job Corps Center (CJCC) operating under Horizons Youth Services (HYS) planted pinwheels at the front entrance of the center on Wednesday, April 11 in honor of National Child Abuse Prevention Month.

According to NCTSN (National Child Traumatic stress Network), “April was first declared Child Abuse Prevention Month by presidential proclamation in 1983. Since then, April has been a time to acknowledge the importance of families and communities working together to prevent child abuse.”

Participants included students Sarah Lynch, Ajanae Anderson, Rashawn Ragsdale, Tatiana Cortez, Whitney Friday, Renne Adzadu and center staff Tia Welch, Business Community Liaison.

Job Corps is a no-cost education and career technical training program administerd by the U.S. Department of Labor that helps young people ages 16-24 improve the qualityof their lives through career technical training program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor that helps young people ages 16-24 improve the quality of their lives through career technical and academic training. CJCC is overseen by the Philadelphia Regional Office of Job Corps and is operated by HYS.
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Pictured left to right: Sara Lynch, Ajanae Anderson (bottom), Renne Adzadu, Tatianna Cortez, Whitney Friday and Rashawn Ragsdale.

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