JOB CORPS Whitney Young Job Corps created an opportunity for 3 gentlemen to start the year with a very promising future. Conner Cole and Johnathan Rivard have completed approximately 90% of their welding trade and are eligible to participate in the Work Base Learning program....
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Alaska Job Corps Students See Future Careers on Groundhog Job Shadow Day
There is nothing better than visualizing possibilities for one’s future. This is especially true if you are about to launch into the professional career pool—like Alaska Job Corps students. Over the last weeks, students have been fully participating in the annual...
First Workforce Summit brings Crowd to Alaska Job Corps
Amazing Workforce Summit at Alaska Job Corps Center “How did you get so many employers to this function?” was the frequently asked question at the Alaska Job Corps Workforce Summit on November 17. The full size basketball court was packed with CEO’s, managing...
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...
Potomac SGA and Community Living Partner for Results!
SGA in conjunction with the Community Living staff conducted a "How Are We Doing Survey" with the students today during both lunch periods in the cafeteria. This is a way to keep a pulse on the student culture. Students were asked 1) Do you feel comfortable talking to...
Potomac Job Corps Center Participate in the 2016 Presidential Elections
On November 8, 2016, Potomac Job Corps Center's BCL and CSIO took a bus load of students to the polls. They were anxious to cast their votes in this years' Presidential Election. Although, we encountered some opposition, including long lines and disgruntled voters,...
Alaska Job Corps Students Work and Learn on Real Job Site
The BLM Alaska State Facilities/Property Manager says it best: “Job Corps students strive to do the very best they can.” And Manager Alan Lorimer he should know because has been overseeing and encouraging Job Corps students’ work at BLM work sites for a very long...
Alaska Job Corps Accounting Students Value Accuracy in Public Service Event
Alaska Job Corps Accounting Services students practice precision and responsibility in their book and trade training. But they also practiced these exact same skills in a Public Service event, in conjunction with the United Way of Mat Su. 1027 backpacks were filled...
“Without a doubt, I’m 100% proof of Job Corps’ Success”
Twenty-two years ago Glenn Evans was a student at the Alaska Job Corps. This afternoon he was a mentor at the Alaska Job Corps for 75 students in the hard hat trades. Glenn is a successful business man, working for Columbia Hydronics Company. He started his career in...
Water Safety is part of Safety Culture at Alaska Job Corps
Alaska Job Corps students have many waterside opportunities in their off-time, after training hours. A full fleet of canoes, nicely berthed in a "canoe dorm", stand ready for the evening lake paddle. Swimming in lakes is common and fishing too is an abundant activity...
Alaska Job Corps Celebrates Cultural Diversity with Community
All the mayors were there, along with the Governor and the First Lady. It was the great Bridge Builders kick-off event in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley in Alaska and Job Corps students were there, performing and sharing food with all the community. "World Flavors"...
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...
Alaskans Benefit from Excellent Relationship between Job Corps and College
The Alaska Job Corps Center and the Mat-Su College have a good combined history, which strengthens every year. Both programs are located in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, near Palmer Alaska. There are many tight connections between the two facilities which both support...
Alaska Job Corps students do well in Advanced Employment Training
Alaska Job Corps offers nine career trades and specializes in preparing young adults to be trained to work force needs. Last week three Job Corps college students were applauded by the professor of Refrigeration and Heating Technology. Daniel Mielke wrote that the...
St. Louis Job Corps Student Shadows American Job Center
St. Louis Job Corps student Kaila Moore had a chance to shadow LaWayna Allen from the Missouri American Job Center North Oaks in St. Louis County. Kaila had a chance to participate in a St. Louis County training seminar on Youth Services and learn about all the...
ATTERBURY JOB CORPS STUDENT “ON TRACK” AT ADVANCED TRAINING – TCU
Former AJCC student Ashley Fitzwater is a resident of Warren, Michigan while having strong roots in her native city of Detroit. Miss Fitzwater attended undergraduate school at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, MI. Miss Fitzwater successfully completed her...
INDYPENDENCE JOB CORPS CENTER INDUSTRY COUNCIL FOR CNA
Atterburys downtown Indianapolis sister center, called IndyPendence, held a Center Industry Council meeting that focused on the C.N.A. trade on Thursday January 29th. A "CIC" as we call it, is a meeting where Job Corps enlists the input from Industry experts in an...
208 Lives Saved by Guthrie Job Corps Students
Guthrie Job Corps Health Care students participated in a Blood Drive for the Oklahoma Blood Institute on January 14, 2016. Health care students assisted with registering and prepari Both students and staff donated enough blood to save
Guthrie Job Corps Participates in MLK Parade
The Guthrie Job Corps Color Guard held their heads high and proud as they marched down Oklahoma Avenue in downtown Guthrie for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Parade on January 18th. Although temperatures were in the 20's and the wind was blowing making it even colder,...
We Moustache You to Stay Clean and Sober
Teap Specialists Kim Smithson starts a new "We Moustache You to Stay Clean and Sober" program. She is posting pictures of different staff members with big "moustaches" on a bulletin board. First pictures were of the Center Director, Priscilla Mayberry, Operations...