JOB CORPS The American Culinary Federation Education Foundation (ACFEF) Quality Program approval committee had the pleasure of reviewing the Job Corps application for program accreditation. It is with great pleasure that Edison Job Corps’ Culinary Arts program earned the ACFEF...
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Let’s Move! Columbia Basin Job Corps CCC
Columbia Basin Job Corps CCC Let's Move! The students, staff and even the Mayor of Moses Lake, WA join in on the Let's Move! intitiative to promote youth fitness!
Edison Job Corps Academy students celebrate “Make a Difference Day”
Edison Job Corps Academy celebrated “Make a Difference Day” by volunteering at two different organizations for the second year in the row to support the needs of their local community. On Friday, October 21, 2011 students helped packing hygiene products at the “Feed...
Edison Job Corps Students Support Greater Plainfield Habitat of Humanity and Campus Beautification
On September 28, 2011 carpentry students led by their instructors supported construction efforts of the 34th home that is being built by the Greater Plainfield Habitat of Humanity. Two days later, painting students and their instructor started a painting job of the...
Edison Job Corps Academy hosts Outreach & Admission Day
To enhance center culture and student transitional success, Edison Job Corps hosted an Outreach & Admission (OA) Day in October, which included thirteen OA staff members from CHP as well as center’s Volunteer Recruiter, Counselors, Management Staff and Center...
Edison Job Corps On Center Events
Information about Edison Job Corps Academy center hosted events and activities can be access via below links: Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office Presentation Explaining Criminal Justice System presented by Assistant Prosecutor Cindy Glaser and Metuchen-Edison NAACP...
Edison Job Corps Carpentry Students Built Gazebos on Campus
Edison Job Corps students know that approximaletly 70% of trainig is hands- on and they appreciate that. And altought they will complete the program when times come and continue their path to success, the project they worked on will remain on campus for others to...
Highlights from A+/MCTS Edison Job Corps Advanced Program
Edison Job Corps Academy recently became an active member of Microsoft IT Academy. This membership provides great benefits including but not limited to online access to lessons plans, power point presentations, practice tests, operating system software, discounts on...
Boston Region ETA Youth Conference November 14 – 16, 2011
Boston Region Job Corps Director Joseph Semansky, EJCA students Kevin Badaraco-Rodriguez, Christian Brooks, Jasmine Almaraz, Cassie Lee Josephs and EJCA Center Director Joseph P. DiPina Jr. November 15th, 2011 pictured above. EJCA students had the opportunity to...
Lifeblood Drive at the Hooks Job Corps
The Dr. Benjamin L. Hooks Job Corps Center had a blood drive on November 3, 2011 and collected over 40 units of blood. The students and staff participated in the blood drive. Hooks is one of the largest contributors of blood to Lifeblood. Hooks has a quarterly blood...
Hooks Job Corps in Whitehaven Christmas Parade
Members of the cheer team and Sandy Williams, CEP and Cheer team coordinator decorated a float for the Whitehaven Christmas parade with the theme of "It's Our Time to Shine". The Christmas parade started at the Southland Mall in Whitehaven, went down Elvis Presley...
Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure
20 students and staff recently participated in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. The race is held annually in Memphis and students volunteer and work the race. 16 students and staff also walked to 5K race.The purpose of the race is raise awareness about breast...
Job Corps Success Story Lands $20.95/Hour Job
“Push yourself to prove yourself.” Those words have guided Northlands student Tearron Dinkins to great heights as he completes his training in Urban Forestry…
Iroquois Job Corps Highlighted in The Daily News
The Iroquois Job Corps was highlighted in The Daily News in the Wednesday, December 7, 2011 edition. The Iroquois Job Corps appeared in the SCHOOLS section with the entire back page devoted to their involvement in the community with food pantry deliveries,...
Iroquois Job Corps Holiday Family
The Iroquois Job Corps students and staff have adopted a family for the holidays. The Adopt-A-Family program is through Community Action in Albion, NY. Students assisted in choosing the items and helped wrap the various presents. This year the family consisted of 3...
Iroquois Job Corps Contributes To Local Food Pantries
The Iroquois Job Corps students and staff collected over 400 non-perishable food items and delivered the items to 2 local food pantries. After reading a recent article in the Batavia Daily News about the increased need of families for assistance the Iroquois Job...
Iroquois Job Corps Serves The Community
The Iroquois Job Corps Center students and staff participated in the "Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Fundraiser" held at Watt Farm in Albion, NY. Students and staff raised just over $3,900.00 by donations and bake sales that were held on the Iroquois...
Genesee County Nursing Home Hires Iroquois Job Corps Graduates
The Genesee County Nursing Home located in Batavia, NY has hired 4 Iroquois Job Corps Certified Nursing Assistant graduates in the past 3 months of 2011. A student worked based learning partnership between the Genesee County Nursing Home and the Iroquois Job Corps...
Brunner International Hires Iroquois Job Corps Students
Brunner International, a Medina, NY steel based manfacturing plant has offered full time positions to 3 Iroquois Job Corps students. The students have taken part in a worked based learning opportunity for the past 12 weeks. The students will graduate from the...
Archaeologists Look For Famous Shipyard Next to Northlands Job Corps Center
Archaeologists from the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum spent nearly two weeks digging and evaluating a site on Otter Creek adjacent to Northlands’ campus in Vergennes, Vermont that they believe may be the site of a historic naval shipyard…