JOB CORPS The week of July 7 –11, 2010 several Woodstock Job Corps Center Security Trade students set aside their vacation time to lend their skills to a worthwhile cause. Tyler Sirbaugh, Daniel Oaks, Shawn Braxton, Devon Leith and Bryan Delancey provided security services at...
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Woodstock Job Corps Center: Brick Shop Guest Speaker
On Thursday, July 29, 2010 Woodstock’s Brick Masonry shop enjoyed a visit from a seasoned brick mason worker. Mike Byers, CEO/President of Masonry & Tile Contractors Inc. in Pikesville, came to Center to speak to the Brick students about working in the field, how...
Woodstock Job Corps Center: Sojourner-Douglass College Recruitment Session
On Friday, July 30, 2010 Sojourner-Douglass College was at Woodstock Job Corps Center to conduct three separate information sessions for students. The college is beginning what may soon become Woodstock’s premier college institution housed on site at the Woodstock...
Faces of Job Corps: Celeste B.G.
Student Success Story: Celeste B.G. Clearfield Job Corps. Celeste B.G. came to Clearfield Job Corps in October of 2009 from Denver, Colorado. After learning about the training opportunities available at Clearfield Job Corps, Celeste began researching computer repair...
Faces of Job Corps: Karece T.
Student Success Story: Karece T, Clearfield Job Corps Karece T. came to Clearfield Job Corps in January of 2008 from San Bernardino, California. He was looking to do something different and better with his life when some friends at Inland Empire Job Corps told him...
Faces of Job Corps: Stephan S.
Stephan really did walk five miles to an unfinished school each day. Stephan and his family were Liberian farmers caught in the midst of a long civil war so they left Liberia and came to to Minnesota. Soon after his arrival he enrolled at Hubert H. Humphrey and since...
Faces of Job Corps: Shiquita S.
At the age of 18, Shiquita foolishly quit school and left her parents’ home believing there was something better. After moving from house to house and getting involved with the wrong crowd she followed the advice of her brother and enrolled at the Whitney M. Young Job...
Faces of Job Corps: Patricia W.
Patricia decided to come to Job Corps when she tagged along with one of her brothers to attend a meeting and decided she liked what she heard. Patricia had never been exposed to a dormitory or classroom style atmosphere but she quickly adjusted and grew very fond of...
Faces of Job Corps: Maurice N.
Maurice N. arrived from Miami, Florida after lengthy unemployment and worries about his future. He came to the center with his high school diploma and quickly obtained numerous leadership roles at Muhlenberg. Since his arrival Maurice has: Become Student Government...
Faces of Job Corps: Natasha
Natasha was a 16 year old single mother who dropped out of High school to care for her daughter who wanted to earn a high school diploma but had no child care. So Natasha enrolled in the Hawaii Job Corps Center to better herself and improve the future for her child....
Faces of Job Corps: Minh T.
Minh, also known as "Minty," was a successful student, graduating from high school in Las Vegas, Nevada with honors. However, after her troubled home life led her to run away, Minty found it difficult to be successful without a place to call home. This led to her...
Global Youth Service Day: Denison Job Corps
The students at Denison Job Corps Center focused on helping their surrounding community on Global Youth Service Day. Several of the parks and recreation areas of the surrounding community were in desperate need of some rehabilitation and clean up. Painters of the...
Earth Day at Columbia Basin Job Corps
The students at Columbia Basin Job Corps organized a service learning project for Earth Day that was helpful to the community and educational for the students. The City of Moses Lake storm drains empty to the lake. The students and staff of Columbia Basin helped...
Faces of Job Corps: Marcos P.
U.S. Navy Chief Warrant Officer Marcos enrolled in the David L. Carrasco Job Center, in El Paso, Texas, hoping to make a better life for himself. He was concerned about facing a future of crime and poverty. While enrolled he: Earned his high school diploma Completed...
Faces of Job Corps
Student Success Story: Latisha C. Latisha enrolled at Exeter Job Corps Academy after surviving a devastating car accident that left her close friend in serious condition and herself recovering from physical injuries. She decided then that she did not want to end her...
Faces of Job Corps: Letchia Hickey
Letchia Hickey was born in Jamaica Queens , New York City. As a child she had a passion for helping others. She attended P.S 48 elementary then moved on to I.S. 8 preparatory middle school. After the passing of her mother in 2001, Letchia relocated to Apopka, Florida...
Faces of Job Corps
The Cleveland Job Corps Academy (CJCA) is proud to announce the selection of not one, but two CJCA students as National Job Corps Youth Ambassadors for Program Year 2009. Teondra L. Mills and Sean Barnett were selected from over one hundred applicants and will...
Oneonta Student Shares Success
Faces of Job Corps: Amanda S. Amanda came to Oneonta Job Corps Academy at the age of 17, hoping to get away from a dramatic home life and be able to focus on getting an education that would allow her to be successful. After enrolling Amanda accomplished the...
Faces of Job Corps: Mark Smith
Mark Smith came to the Albuquerque Job Corps Center as an Advanced Welding student after completing basic welding at the Woodstock Center in Baltimore, Maryland. He already had his High School Diploma and was an exemplary student back home. He claims that his Mom...
Faces of Job Corps
Student Success Story: Alexander K. Alexander K. came to Homestead Job Corps Center to learn a vocational trade and earn his High School Diploma. Prior to that, he attended five different local high schools with no success. The staff at Homestead Job Corps Center,...