JOB CORPS When our students leave us, Whitney M. Young Job Corps Center wants them to know everything they can about finding success after graduating. To that end, and to celebrate National Apprenticeship Week, Whitney took a group of students to the local carpenter’s union in...
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Ring that bell: Logan Wallace adapts, evolves and overcomes
When Logan Wallace (Brick) started at Whitney M. Young Job Corps, he thought he knew what he wanted out of the program. “I wanted my license, I wanted my high school diploma,” Wallace said. “I really didn’t care for the trade, but my instructor, he got on that level...
Whitney M. Young graduate returns, hopes to inspire new generation
Orlando Kershaw’s career has taken him from Whitney M. Young Job Corps…to Whitney M. Young Job Corps. Kershaw graduated from the cement program in 2019. “I heard from a friend of mine. He went to a Job Corps over in Indiana,” he said. “For a while I wasn’t too sure....
If you build it, they will come: Whitney M. Young student hopes to build towering legacy
For most people, it’s a bad thing to have your head in the clouds. But for Dylan Harris, it may just be the brightest future imaginable. Harris (Carpentry) has lofty dreams – both figuratively and literally. The Whitney M. Young Job Corps student wants to be an...
New SGA elected at Whitney M. Young Job Corps Center
The new Whitney M. Young Student Government Association has been selected. The votes were cast last week, and now, Whitney M. Young Job Corps Center’s students have their new leadership in hand. Serving as president is incumbent Aliciakaye Bryant, returning for her...
Whitney M. Young Job Corps Center graduate makes history as Miami’s first Black Chief Electrical Inspector
When Richard Way was a teenager, he enrolled at Whitney M. Young Job Corps Center. Thanks to that decision, he made history. “I was 16 years old, and needed a second chance in life,” Way said. “Job Corps helped me with that, and I’m very thankful.” Job Corps not only...
Nutthasit Chujan graduates from Whitney M. Young, gets ready for welding career
We’re sending another one out into the world. Nutthasit Chujan (Welding) has graduated from Whitney M. Young Job Corps Center and has secured himself a job at Roll Forming Company in Shelbyville, Ky. through Crossroads Professional Services. And as he tells it, Chujan...
Whitney M. Young prepares for a new year
New year, new students, new dreams to fulfill: Whitney M. Young Job Corps Center is about to get underway for 2022. With our remaining students from last year safely returning to center to continue their journeys, Whitney M. Young has a lot of bright young talent to...
Cleveland Job Corps Celebrates 2021 Graduates
Cleveland Job Corps Celebrates 2021 Graduates To commemorate the fifty-one Cleveland Job Corps Center students who victoriously completed the program, the center hosted their 10th Annual “National Job Corps Commencement Day” ceremony on September 17, 2021. Due to...
Proud of His Accomplishments
“There is no elevator to success you have to take the stairs. It is all a process you just have to stick with it,” said JuJuan Pinson reciting Zig Ziglar’s quote. “Every student that comes to the Cleveland Job Corps should know and apply this quote he recommended.”...
Exceptional Work Ethic and Proficiency
Cleveland Job Corps Center Clinical Medical Assistant graduate Jamesia Heath is employed at Cleveland Clinic. The twenty-two-year-old is a Medical Assistant in the Department of Infectious Disease. "I really love my job," stated Jamesia. Impressed with Jamesia's work...
Cleveland Job Corps Center Alumni Earns Her LPN
“Job Corps taught me discipline, how to listen, and to budget,” explained Shakia Smith. “But the most notable thing I learned was to apply myself to everything I do.” The Cleveland Job Corps Center alumni recently completed the Licensed Practical Nurses program at...
A Unique Path To Choosing a Career Technical Trade
u·nique /yo͞oˈnēk/ adjective Being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else. Every student we speak with has a different reason why they have chosen to study the trade they do. Many times there isn’t just a singular reason that people choose their professional...
Meet Dahja Smith
My Life before Job Corps was typical; I was hanging with the wrong crowds, easily influenced, quick-tempered, and very angry. I had many family issues that were taking a toll on me and what I wanted to become. I couldn’t afford college, but Job Corps would be the...
Cleveland Job Corps Partners with Youth Opportunities Unlimited Y.O.U.
Cleveland Job Corps Center (CJCC) is pleased to announce they entered a partnership with Youth Opportunities Unlimited on June 21, 2021. The alliance will permit CJCC students between the ages of 16 and 19 to be employed by Y.O.U. while still completing their training...
ALASKA JOB CORPS ADDS “RED CARD” SUPPLEMENTAL CERTIFICATION
There are now many new Red Card holders in the State of Alaska and they received their certification at the Alaska Job Corps. This is a supplemental tool in the Alaska Job Corps students’ toolbox. The primary goal of Alaska Job Corps is to train and place students...
93.5% of Alaska Job Corps Graduates Placed in Careers
It’s a never-ending success story at the Alaska Job Corps. In the last few months six graduates found employment in the health care industry. A few are now employed at other senior facilities as certified nursing assistants. Several are at Providence and Primrose...
Alaska Job Corps Adds Value to Training
For weeks students have been building and creating products for sale for an economic lesson at the Alaska Job Corps Center. As part of their training and academics, they planned, designed, and penciled out projects which they could afford (using training...
Keeping Energy High at the Alaska Job Corps Center
Winter darkness is pervasive in the higher latitudes and along with the darkness comes feelings of sadness and often depression. Recognizing this fact is a part of ongoing counseling and concern at the Alaska Job Corps Center. We know that employment training and...
Alaska Job Corps Promotes Non-Violence in Life, Home, Work and on Street Corners
It was the International Day of Peace of September 21. On the evening news you saw violence escalate in Charlotte, killings in Texas, assaults in Paris, weekend explosions in New York City; an air raid in Greece and hundreds of migrants, dying at sea while trying...