JOB CORPS It was the municipal election last evening. At city hall in downtown Anchorage things were predictably chaotic--but that is just the way it is on election evenings. Precinct volunteers and workers deliver the secure hard ballot boxes, in their SUV’s and cartons of...
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Alaska Job Corps Preps New Behavior Management System
Alaska Job Corps Center is preparing for the New Behavior Management System. Both staff and students are being trained in the specifics which will be defined as a Level 1, Level 2 or minor infractions. Beefing up the Job Corps disciplinary system is a reflection of...
Job Corps Certified Nursing Assistants help Seniors at Regional Medical Center
Every month Alaska Job Corps Certified Nursing Assistants travel to the Mat Su Regional Medical Center to work with the elders at the monthly Senior Circle presentations. Students take blood pressures and work with the elders as requested. The elders are interested in...
Business Brings Excel to Life for Accounting Students
Excel is just software-- until you see it in action. Twelve Alaska Job Corps Accounting students did just that--last week at the Matanuska Electric Association’s main headquarters. This was a hands on opportunity and students heard directly from employees in the...
Alaska Job Corps Center Embraces Challenges of Last Great Race
On March 6th, the Alaska Job Corps Center did not stand passively by as the 85 dog teams raced to Nome, during the 2016 Iditarod’s running of the Last Great Race. Instead, they were at the starting line in Willow Alaska. Students and recreation staff cheered,...
Health and Hope is Part of Alaska Job Corps Career Training
28 Alaska Job Corps students are now certified in the Alaska Youth Mental Health First Aid program. This involved an eight hour intensive training from Deb Cosello, project coordinator for “You Are Not Alone,” a youth led suicide prevention training and outreach...
Alaskans Benefit from Excellent Relationship between Job Corps and College
The Alaska Job Corps Center and the Mat-Su College have a good combined history, which strengthens every year. Both programs are located in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, near Palmer Alaska. There are many tight connections between the two facilities which both support...
Alaska Job Corps Recognizes Civil Rights Leader
Alaska Job Corps students partnered up with students from the University of Alaska's Mat Su College to celebrate and recognize civil and human rights on Elizabeth Peratrovich Day. Y2Y students and many Job Corps students participated in the tours, films and round...
Alaska Job Corps students graduate into High Paying and Long Term Careers In Water Management
At nearly any Water plant in the State of Alaska, you will see former Job Corps students. The Job Corps Water/Waste Water program has graduated dozens and dozens of certified students, whom have sat successfully for their State Boards and gone on to high paying and...
Alaska Job Corps students do well in Advanced Employment Training
Alaska Job Corps offers nine career trades and specializes in preparing young adults to be trained to work force needs. Last week three Job Corps college students were applauded by the professor of Refrigeration and Heating Technology. Daniel Mielke wrote that the...
Survival evolves into Success
Alaska Job Corps Office Administration student Ahava Faith James has read hundreds and hundreds of books in her short lifetime. Reading has been her love, her duty, and her survival. For years in isolation, books were her friends. Not surprisingly, her favorite genres...
Homeless Never-more
Alaska Job Corps student Eugina is both alert and accomplished. But it wasn’t always this way. Eugina has had to fight her way to this level, a victim of foster systems, adoptions, homelessness and lack of education. But today, she is far away from those challenges....
Alaska Job Corps Student Interns with Senator Begich’s office
When Danielle James started the Alaska Job Corps program last January, she had hoped to become employable. She has done far more than that in less than one year. Dani James, from Kenai, has earned and excelled in her academic and vocational training. She has held...
JOB CORPS WORKS FOR COMMUNITY
Fourteen Alaska Job Corps students arrived at the Birchtree Charter School on a misty Friday morning. Each student was geared up with hard hats and safety boots. As they filed off the bus, they were uncomfortable. This was a busy and unfamiliar place. The...
Alaska Job Corps students help with Emergency Flooding
It was 3:50 on a late Friday afternoon and everyone was looking forward to the start of the weekend. But that’s also when the Alaska Job Corps Center received the call from the local police. Was there anyway students or staff could help with the frightening storm...
Generation station groundbreaking includes Job Corps
At the base of an Alaskan mountain and surrounded by forest, is the new site for the Eklutna Generation Station groundbreaking. Dignitaries, contractors, partners, and community leaders joined in the groundbreaking for ten dual fuel generation sets to provide power...
Senator Begich Honors Gold Medal Job Corps Winner
Two weeks ago, Megan Dauphinee participated in the National Job Corps Oratory Competition. Her speech focused on the dramatic changes in her life, thanks to Job Corps' assistance and training. After the speech she traveled up to Capital Hill to meet with Senator...
Senator Murkowski’s Personal Congratulations Affect Alaska Job Corps Gold Medal Winner
Alaska Job Corps student Megan Dauphinee returned from the Nation's capital with a gold medal, after a stellar performance in the National Job Corps Oratory Competition. One of the finest moments was when U. S. Senator Lisa Murkowski came to the competition to...
Alaska Job Corps Students Job Shadow Professionals
There is no more valuable nor effective "hands-on" training than job shadowing. And that is why, on February 2, National Groundhog Job Shadow Day, sixty-four Alaska Job Corps students participated as "job shadows" at a number of professional sites in South Central...
ALASKA GRADUATES ENVISION POSSIBILITIES
As Glenn Evans looked out over the crowd of anxioux students, he remembered sitting nervously in that same audience, eighteen years earlier. Dressed well, in a nice suit, he nodded knowingly to the Palmer Job Corps students, “I know it’s hard. But you have to...