JOB CORPS Woodstock students and staff celebrated Y2Y 9/14-18/2015. Y2Y was a national initiative taken by all Job Corps Center to address issues of peer-to-peer violence and aggression. Woodstock held activities and events aimed towards raining awareness and educating...
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Alaska Job Corps Stands Strong
On Tuesday, September 15th, Alaska Job Corps Y2Y students launched a powerful initiative to stop violence and bullying, on their center, in public areas, at their homes and in worksites. This roll-out effort is the result of weeks of work and planning. At a full...
CTS Corner
The Washington Metro Transportation Authority met with Woodstock's Grad-90 students and Career Transition Services staff to talk about employment opportunities with the company (especially Security Trade). Woodstock is looking forward to this partnership.
AJCC Welcomes the Best of the Best Welders
This week is the start of a new adventure for the Advanced Trade Welding program at the Albuquerque Job Corps Center. New students have arrived from all over the United States to participate in the program. All students who were accepted into the program have proven...
Delaware Valley Job Corps Graduation
Students have successfully graduated from the various trades offered at the Delaware Valley Job Corps Center. The Carpentry Trade graduates are Saul Bravo-Benitez, Michael Friberger, and Yilda Pelaez; Culinary graduates are Kewing Belizaire, Chalindre Bonaparte,...
Making It Big In The Big Apple
On Friday, September 4th, former Shriver Carpentry student Jonathan Ayala visited the center to share the story of his success working with the New York City Local #157 Carpentry Union and to present Instructor Dave Basilio with a large aerial photo of the site he is...
Atterbury Job Corps: 98th Graduating Class
Friday, August the 21st was a Great Day at Atterbury Job Corps Center. Students have spent 2015 staying motivated to not only take on the challenges of job training and higher education, but did so while overcoming the obstacles of everyday life that throw so many off...
Bright Lives, Bright Futures: Joliet Job Corps Center Students Graduate from the Program
Students learn many lessons at the Joliet Job Corps Center. But out of all of them, perseverance is perhaps the most important one, said Lisa Bowman, valedictorian of the recent graduating class. “At times, giving up seemed like the easiest thing to do,” said the...
Roswell Job Corps – Former Student, Isaac Chaparro addresses graduating class of 2015
Isaac Chaparro is 20 years old, born and raised in Las Cruces, NM. My family includes my parents, Eunice Delgado and Gonzalo Chaparro, 3 brothers and 2 sisters. I attended Alameda Elementary School, Picacho Middle School. During middle school I began playing football...
Roswell Job Corps – Faces of Job Corps
Meet Kanrod McLeod: Hartford Job Corps Academy Manufacturing Graduate
Kanrod McLeod grew up in Kingston, Jamaica in a community where crime and violence were the norm. Always wanting to make his mom proud, he did well in school until the escalating violence kept him from attending and obtaining his high school diploma. When he was...
Hartford Job Corps Academy Celebrates National Job Corps Commencement Day with Special Guest: Lenita Jacobs-Simmons, National Director, Office of Job Corps
On August 21, 2015, the Hartford Job Corps Academy joined 126 Job Corps centers across the country to celebrate the 5th Annual “National Job Corps Commencement Day”. Over 120 Clinical Medical Assistants, Certified Nurse Assistants, IFS-Insurance, and Manufacturing...
Little Rock Job Corps holds 2015 Summer Commencement Ceremony
On August 21st, the Little Rock Job Corps Center held our summer commencement ceremony for over 125 graduates. The Center would like to send a special thank you to all of our special guests that joined in celebrating our students accomplishments. Special guests...
Tongue Point Job Corps Center Celebrates National Commencement Day
Alaska Job Corps graduates receive personal high praise from Senator and Governor
Alaska Job Corps graduates have a large community support group backing them. As they walked across the graduation stage last week, they shook hands with the Governor of the State of Alaska, Bill Walker; U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan; and President of Chugach Alaska...
Clearfield Students Building Bridges
The Battle of the Bridges took place at Salt Lake Community College Meadowbrook Campus on 04/08/15 at 2:00pm. The teams that took place came from BYU, Weber State, DATC, Ogden-Weber Community College and Salt Lake Community College. The Universities faced off as did...
CJCC Job Shadow events
Groundhog Job Shadow activities started off Fri- day, January 31 with students job shadowing staff. It continued thru February 7. 212 students from various trades and 46 staff members participated in tours, presentations and individual job shadow experiences with 18...
New Haven Job Corps Students Have A Dream
New Haven Job Corps Students have a dream about their future, and they shared that dream with hundreds of community members, organizations, and schools in downtown New Haven that participated in an event which was a tribute to the Rev. Martin Luther King who 50 years...
“A Job Corps Success Story”
The student employees at the Iroquois Job Corps Center enter the program with goals of obtaining one of the “3 Es” – employment, enlistment or enrollment. For one of our student employees, her goal of obtaining employment came to fruition before she even left. This...
Iroquois Job Corps Center Highlighted in Daily News
The Iroquois Job Corps Center was proudly displayed on the entire back page of The Daily News on January 16, 2013. The Daily News showcased Iroquois' student employee's in "A Service to the Community", "A Meeting with Senator Charles Schumer", "Making Strides Breast...