JOB CORPS On Thursday April 25, 2024, students and staff participated in an Earth Day Celebration beautifying their center! They worked on landscaping, planted flowers, raked, and cleaned up after a long cold winter! They take pride in their center located in the hills of...
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Ring that bell: Hill nurses a powerful dream as she graduates Whitney M. Young
Charlese Hill (CNA) didn’t know much about Job Corps when she decided to give the program a shot – just that it was a free education. “I kind of just went for it,” she said. “I just took my chances.” With a start like that, though, Hill has accomplished great things...
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....
TLJC student success
Our students here at Talking Leaves Job Corps have been working really hard to achieve their goals. Student Taryn Cunningham says, "TLJC helps keep her aligned with her life goals by offering the classes she needs". Taryn was able to stay on coarse through COVID and...
Mark Sneed: the man with the golden arm
When Welding Instructor Mark Sneed started at Whitney M. Young, he entered into a D-Grade program. The plaques on the wall in the welding classroom, which celebrate welding as one of the strongest trades on-center, indicate that’s no longer the case. Sneed has been at...
TLJC partners with Cherokee Nation Career Services to sponsor a CAN/COAT Drive for the local community
Talking Leaves Job Corps & CN Career Services Can/Coat Drive As the Holidays and colder weather approach, Talking Leaves Job Corps partnered with Cherokee Nation Career Services to sponsor a Can/Coat Drive for our local community. The cans were all donated to a...
Introducing our new CD
Carl Hilliard is a proven and experienced Center Director for over 20 years and has a total of 26 years of Job Corps experience. His excellent leadership as the Center Director of various Job Corps Centers for over 20 years, consistently placed the centers he managed...
Whitney M. Young Jr. Job Corps recognizes distance learning superstars
Joshua Landfair, from Memphis, TN, enrolled at Whitney M. Young Jr. Job Corps in August 2019. Since then, he has completed the Eminence High School Diploma program and will receive his high school diploma when he completes his Certified Nurse Assistant career...
From homelessness to a promising future
Whitney M. Young Jr. Job Corps is far more than a job training program for Brittany Lafever. It’s also a home. Lafever, from Louisville, KY, spend her childhood in foster care until she aged out of the program at 18. For the next two years, she was homeless. But her...
Whitney Young Jr. graduates prepare for college at KSU
William Lloyd, of Cleveland, OH, started at Whitney M. Young Jr. Job Corps in January 2019. He obtained his high school diploma through the Penn Foster High School program and completed the Certified Nurse Assistant career technical training program. He currently is...
Whitney Young Jr. graduates prepare for college at KSU
Detereon Wray, from Memphis, TN, enrolled at Whitney M. Young Jr. Job Corps in May 2019. He came with his high school diploma and currently is finishing his Cement career technical training program through distance learning. While on center, Wray served in the Student...
Face of Job Corps: Teachers That Make A Difference
Ms. Mintlow is a Office Administration instructor that doesn't limit her care for students to the trade or her classroom. She cares enough to seek out donations of dresses for students that didn't have the type of wardrobe they really desired to wear to the center's...
FROM SHY TO SHINING: WIND RIVER JOB CORPS STUDENT STEPS OUT
Cassidy Suedekum, recent Wind River Job Corps graduate, has a favorite quote from A. A. Milne, “You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” This is a very appropriate quote for the young woman from Firestone, Colorado, who left...
Westover Student Named Massachusetts Champion!
"Congratulations! Because of the exceptionally high score you received on your Microsoft Office Specialist MOS Word 2013 exam, you have been named Massachusetts’s Champion and selected to compete in Certiport’s 2019 Microsoft Office Specialist U.S. National...
Clearfield students volunteer & run in homeless shelter 5k
Saturday 8/13/16 RA Kareece Thompson took students Johnnie Vining, Justin Cornelius, Roberto Yong, and Evan Nabors all helped volunteer to oversee a 5k marathon to support the Young Futures Homeless Shelter in Ogden. The duties that they engaged in were keeping...
CJCC Students sweep top 3 in 5k benefit run
6 Clearfield Students participated in the 2016 Stepin for Life 5K run to benefit the Northern Utah HIV/AIDS Project this year on August 6th. Three of the students placed in the top three at the finish line at the event which began at the MTC Learning Center pavilion...
Clearfield students spend a night out against crime
Clearfield students of dorms B1 and A4 participated in a joint community service project at the Ogden National Night Out Against Crime. The services the students provided were cleaning up the free haircut area, handing out bike helmets to children, picking up trash...
Local Councilwoman Visits Clearfield Students
Wednesday, May 11th Dorm "A" held a leadership forum with guest speaker Karianne Lisonbee, Syracuse City Councilwoman and Republican Nominee for Utah State House of Representatives District 14. Students learned about state governance, personal leadership, the...
CJCC UAW program earns Toyota recertification.
Clearfield Job Corps is happy to announce, its United Auto Workers training program has been recertified as a Toyota Training Program. Many months of hard work by our staff went into this remarkable accomplishment. Clearfield Job Corps is one of about 35 schools...
Clearfield gets new Deputy Director: Reyna Delgadillo
I am first generation Mexican‐American. I was born and raised in a small agricultural town in Southern California. I decided early on that I did not want to spend the rest of my life working in the fields and decided to go to college. I went to college at San...