JOB CORPS Over the past year, the Academic Department made a number of technological changes to help students who are working toward their high school diploma or GED. A key change has been the implementation of SMART Board Interactive White Boards in the GED and math...
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Gold Card Rewards
Every month the CSIO Department rewards the Gold Card students with a fun-filled outing. For the month of November, the students took a trip to the Hollywood Fun Park. CSIO staff Candace Brown and Shalonda Cotton accompanied the students as they enjoyed playing video...
Staying Safe at the Joliet Job Corps Center
It’s one of a kind: the Visitor Management System at the Joliet Job Corps Center. When IT manager Richard Brown joined the Center’s staff in 2013, visitors stopped at the security check point outside the building and signed a paper log before entering the building....
The Next Move: Advanced Training
DeYondre Carraway and Shannon Lee made the next amazing step in their life. They traveled to the Hubert H. Humphrey Job Corps Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Tuesday to begin Advanced Training in the Transportation Communications Union Program. Shannon is from...
Joliet Job Corps Center and Congresswoman Robin Kelly
Joliet Job Corps Center BCL Stewart Warren recently met with Aimee Ramirez, director of operations and special projects for Congress-woman Robin Kelly. They discussed a Nov. 23 roundtable meeting between business owners and training facilities that will be hosted by...
Juliet’s Restaurant Works with the Joliet Job Corps Center
The Joliet Job Corps Center’s Culinary Arts students now will have the opportunity to learn while working at Juliet’s restaurant. The downtown Joliet restaurant recently signed a memo of understanding for a Work-Based Learning partnership with the Center. That means...
TABE Testing Incentives at the Joliet Job Corps Center
TABE testing teaches students about leadership, not just about academics. TABE math and reading students at the Joliet Job Corps Center work on critical thinking skills and the process of analyzation while preparing for the tests. There are awards for improvement dur...
Joliet Job Corps Center Students Visit the Aunt Martha’s Job Fair
The Aunt Martha’s office in Park Forest hosted a job fair on Oct. 29 featuring more nearly two dozen top employers from Chicago and the suburbs. Each of the companies had part-time and full-time positions that needed to be filled immediately. Business Construction...
Joliet Job Corps Center Students Visit the One-Stop
Career Transition Readiness students recently visited Joliet’s Goodwill Workforce Center. Workforce Coordinator Joyce Cooper — a true friend to the Center and its students — assisted them as they signed up for employment training events at Goodwill and to receive job...
Ashlee Cannon’s Road to Success
Ashlee Cannon is a Joliet Job Corps Center success story. After earning her high school diploma, she enrolled at the Center in the summer of 2013 and began the Security/MILCAP program. She was ranked as the sergeant of her class and served as SGA Treasurer, Dorm...
Fighting Breast Cancer at the Joliet Job Corps Center
The Joliet Job Corps Center welcomed Dr. Gamilah Pierre of Partners in Obstetrics and Women’s Health as the guest speaker for our Breast Cancer Awareness Assembly on Oct. 29. Organized for the Center’s female students and staff, the event was the culmination of Breast...
Breast Cancer Awareness Week at the Joliet Job Corps Center
Joliet Job Corps Center Student Leaders declared Oct. 22 as Breast Cancer Awareness day this year. Student Lisa Bowman asked everyone on Center to wear something pink that day to recognize this important cause. Students and staff wore pink shirts, socks, make-up and...
Halloween Hoopla at the Joliet Job Corps Center
To celebrate Halloween and Mentor Wednesday on Oct. 28, students and staff gathered in the cafeteria to decorate and eat 400 cupcakes baked by the Culinary Arts students as a special project.
A New Role for Zharmelle Moffett
Zharmelle Moffett has a new position at the Joliet Job Corps Center. She is now the Administrative Assistant in Education and Training. Ms. Moffett began working at the Center five years ago as a Records Clerk. She also has served as Work-Based Learning and CPP...
Alicia Grangent Returns to the Joliet Job Corps Center
One of Joliet’s own has come home. Alicia Grangent, the former CPP/Counseling Manager at the Joliet Job Corps Center Center, is now the new Social Development Director. She has an extensive history with the Center and Adams and Associates. In 2007, Ms. Grangent began...
Think Pink Thursday
On Oct. 22, Joliet Job Corps Center stu-dents and staff joined forces to recognize Breast Cancer Awareness Month on “Think Pink Thursday,” the brainchild of student Lisa Bowman. “I personally know someone who has been affected by breast cancer and felt this would be a...
Cleaning Lessons
Some people are naturally a little tidier than others. And the members of the Dorm Government at the Joliet Job Corps Center are aware of that fact. After it recently became clear that some students need a help with their housekeeping skills, they asked residential...
Joliet Job Corps Center Students Volunteer at Witches Night Out
Without the Joliet Job Corps Center’s students, it would have been a very scary situation Thursday at Witches Night Out. Held at Joliet’s historic Jacob Henry Man-sion, the annual costume party raises thousands of dollars for local charities benefiting women in need....
Culinary Arts Students Bake Fabulous Cakes
Miracle Sawyer and Arianah Walker worked together recently to bake a pair of delicious cakes. Each confection had alternating layers of chocolate and white cake. To get the project started, the students first baked the two cakes. Then they cut through the center of...
Leadership at the Joliet Job Corps Center
Joliet Job Corps Center students have been working diligently on their campaigns the Student Government Association and leadership roles in their dormitories. They have been attending leadership training sessions led by Ms. Sorrells every Wednesday to prepare for the...