JOB CORPS Alaska Job Corps students are on their holiday winter break. On December 17th, they started their homeward trek. Some are local from the Matanuska Susitna Valley. Some are from Anchorage, one hour away. But many are from far away villages, all across Alaska. It may...
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Student Sable writes: The Y2Y Reach of Alaska
As the holiday grows near and people all around are reminded of cheer, happiness and good will towards man. We as Job Corps students intend to send each of our students home with 8 Pledge 4 Peace signature pledge cards. Students will take these to their villages,...
Leveling the Playing Field with Job Corps High School diplomas
The Alaska Job Corps program is proud to announce that 29 students have received their GED or high school diploma in the last few months. This is perhaps a understated phenomena of the Job Corps program. Many people assume--incorrectly-- that young people have a GED...
Community appreciates Alaska Job Corps
Alaska Job Corps combines Training with important Public Service Projects
The Pump Track Kiosk is done, in the ground, and being used at Wilson Park in the City of Palmer. The Alaska Job Corps Carpentry students can check that particular project off their list. But their list is long. In the last year, these students in employment training...
Community helps Job Corps Students learn to budget
ALASKA JOB CORPS STUDENTS SPEND MONEY WISELY WITH GUIDANCE FROM COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS It took Robert exactly 12 seconds to figure out how to spend his entire Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend check. “Send it to my Gram,” is what he said with a big smile. “She lives in...
Alaska Job Corps Stands Strong
On Tuesday, September 15th, Alaska Job Corps Y2Y students launched a powerful initiative to stop violence and bullying, on their center, in public areas, at their homes and in worksites. This roll-out effort is the result of weeks of work and planning. At a full...
Alaska Job Corps Removes Obstacles For Employment
Kayce Frantzich was almost 20 years old and had no GED, High school diploma, no certificates and little work experience. This was early 2002 and Frantzich had hit a major roadblock of opportunity. She found out about Alaska Job Corps Program, enrolled and was...
Remarkable Alumni from Alaska Job Corps
One is a sous chef at Google headquarters in Cupertino, California. One teaches at Harvard. One owns and operates one of the major roofing company in the state. One is an IT manager for largest school district. One is plant operator at largest water plant in state....
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...
Cheering Our Veterans at the Alaska Job Corps Center
Veterans Day at the Alaska Job Corps Center began with an appreciation breakfast serving homemade pancakes and custom omelets to all Veterans. This was followed by a well-organized all center assembly where 15 student and staff veterans were recognized. In addition...
Job Corps Healing Hands Make A Difference
Usually it takes months or years to make a difference in another person’s life. But for Alaska Job Corps students, the connection was nearly instant and the distinction was clear. Stella and Kameri are both Health Occupation students...
ALASKA JOB CORPS STUDENTS WALK THE CONSTITUTION ON CONSTITUTION DAY
Amendments to the United States Constitution were scattered all over the Job Corps Campus on Monday, September 17. Two hundred and fifty four students walked the lengthy circuit to get their Constitution passport stamped at each station. In addition to learning...
Alaska Job Corps Students Help Needy Children
Alaska Job Corps students were ready. Target employees were ready. The Salvation Army was ready. At nine AM, fifty young children arrived at the Wasilla department store. And the shopping started. This event paired school aged, needy children with an adult...
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...
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...
Job Corps Student Wows Crowd with Oratory Entry
Alaska Job Corps 2012 Oratory Competition - Megan Dauphinee This is a Human Services Student who competed in the National Oratory Competition at the Alaska Job Corps Center. There were seven contenders. All had amazing stories and tributes. Judges included U.S....
Alaska Job Corps conducts “Let’s Move” event in the heart of Alaska Winter
In the heart of Alaska winter, hibernation comes easy. But not for Alaska Job Corps students. Winter fitness activities are designed to help with the lethargy of darkness. Cross-country skiing is a popular aerobic activity. Basketball is king in Alaska and the...
Alaska Job Corps Center applauds 40 Graduates
It was a good day for 40 Alaska Job Corps Graduates. There was praise, recognition, pride and a wonderful sense of accomplishment. Alaska Native Dancers performed their "Goodbye," song. Colony High School Color Guard presented the flag. Student, Tekoa Dumpson,...