STUDENT SUCCESS STORY: MINH NGO ON THE GO Minh Ngo is on the fast track at age 23, always keeping his eye on the goal. Minh came to the United States from Viet Nam just a few years ago with his family, knowing very little English. He attended English Language Learner...
Long Beach Students Complete Start Young Initiative Entrepreneurship Program
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Long Beach Job Corps Center Director Recipient of Go Long Beach Award
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Long Beach Hosts Civil Rights Leader at Advanced Leadership Graduation
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Long Beach Job Corps Student Travels to China
Long Beach Job Corps Student, Matthew Moody, recently travelled to China with 3 other Job Corps students. Matthew was one of 4 students selected to travel to China as part of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) program. Below is the link to the article about...
Delegation From India Ministry of Labour Visits Long Beach Job Corps Center
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Healthcare Employer Hires Long Beach Medical Office Support Graduate
Cambrian Homecare in Long Beach, California recently hired Hazel R., a recent Long Beach Job Corps Center graduate. Hazel completed the Medical Office Support Program and utilizing her newly acquired skills, is now employed in the corporate office as an administrative...
Company Helps Insure Success for Long Beach Graduate
The Fred Loya Insurance Company recently hired Long Beach Job Corps Graduate Bianca M. Bianca is a Customer Service Representative Trainee with the company and is currently training in the South Gate Corporate office. In addition, she is preparing to take the State...
School District Hires Long Beach Graduate
Barnabe R. just needed a little encouragement to help him thrive. Mr. Matthew Davis, who was his Career Counselor at the time, was just the person to give him that encouragement along the way. According to Mr. Davis, ''Job Corps was stability for Barnabe...
Employer Partnership Leads to Long Beach Hires
Long Beach Job Corps Center and Equity Residential, a company that manages apartment communities, have worked together and the result is full time jobs for some Facilities Maintenance students. A process is in place whereby the Long Beach Job Corps Facilities...
Long Beach Students Hold Book Drive for Veterans
The Long Beach Job Corps Student Government Association sponsored a book drive to benefit veterans. Students and staff brought in books to donate to veterans at the VA Hospital in Long Beach. The students brought in many books, as did staff members. Paperback and...
Long Beach Students Work with Community Members to Make City Greener
Long Beach Job Corps students recently joined forces with community members to make the city greener. The students worked with 7th District City Council member James Johnson, city staffers, and Long Beach residents to plant 14 trees on 33rd Street in Long Beach. Under...
Long Beach Students Donate Blood to Save Lives
The Student Government Association of Long Beach Job Corps Center recently held a blood drive in cooperation with the American Red Cross. Student volunteers worked with Ms. Cheryl Berlow, Senior Account Manager, from the Donor Resources Department of the American Red...
Volunteering at the Child Life Center
Several students from Long Beach Job Corps Center spent time with youth patients at the Child Life Center at Miller Children's Hospital in Long Beach, California. The students, who were were accompanied by their instructor on Friday, October 21, 2011, helped them...
Students Make a Difference with Head Start Children
A small group of Long Beach Job Corps students made a big difference at the Head Start/Early Head Start Center operated by the Long Beach Unified School District on Friday, October 21, 2011. The students, accompanied by a staff member, spent the morning with...
Helping at Habitat for Humanity ReStore
On Friday, October 21, 2011, the Long Beach Job Corps Industrial Painting students, accompanied by their instructor, spent the day volunteering at one of Habitat for Humanity's ReStore facilities in Norwalk, California. This was one of 4 Habitat for Humanity sites...
Students Pitch In To Educate Youth and their Parents
Forty Long Beach Job Corps students and staff members went to California State University Dominguez Hills in Carson, California to assist in preparing for the university's education fair, one of the largest educational events in California. The students took part in...
Boys and Girls Club Sparkles with the Help of Neighbors
Dozens of students from the Long Beach Job Corps Center walked a block away to their Make A Difference Day site with 3 of their respective academic instructors on October 21, 2011. The project at hand involved cleaning the Freeman E. Fairfield Boys and Girls Club....
What a Difference A Day Makes
Long Beach Job Corps students and staff members conducted a neighborhood street cleanup and beautification project on Cota Avenue, Technology Place, and Santa Fe Avenue in Long Beach, California as one of several Make a Difference Day Projects on October 21,...
Long Beach Facilities Maintenance Class Makes a Difference
The Long Beach Job Corps Center's Facilities Maintenance class was the first group to leave the center and the last group to return. They spent the day at the Euclid Rehab, a Habitat for Humanity project in Lynwood, California, as one of several Make A Difference Day...