JOB CORPS The student-organized American Red Cross blood drive at the San Diego Job Corps Center on March 14, 2011 resulted in the highest number of units of blood ever collected on center in one day. “We’ve been having blood drives for the American Red Cross and the San Diego...
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San Diego Job Corps Partners with SD Housing Commission, Sherwin-Williams Company
For the second year, the San Diego Job Corps Center partnered with the Achievement Academy of the San Diego Housing Commission in offering their students a certificate painter’s training program by Sherwin-Williams. Job Corps students and rental assistance clients of...
San Diego Job Corps Graduate Offers Advice to Center Students
"There are great opportunities in the information technology field when you graduate from Job Corps," advised San Diego Job Corps graduate Gabriel Trujillo. Trujillo recently spoke to students in the Computer Technology Career Technical Training Program at the center....
San Diego Job Corps Students Participate in Groundhog Job Shadow Day 2011
San Diego Job Corps Students Participate in Groundhog Job Shadow Day 2011 “Spending the day working at the South Bay Unified School District was a valuable experience for me,” stated Ariel Beamon, a student at San Diego Job Corps, enrolled in the Office Administration...
San Diego Job Corps Winter 2011 Graduation
Friday, January 21, 2011 was a special day at the San Diego Job Corps Center. Two hundred and eighty students completed their academic requirements and Career Technical Training courses, and took part in the center’s semi-annual graduation. One of the proud graduates...
San Diego Job Corps’ Peter Lominit: Overcoming Adversity
“It has been a long, difficult journey to arrive at this place in my life,” stated Peter Lominit, sitting at his desk at Job Corps, where he works as the center’s Shipping and Receiving Clerk, “but I am happy and proud of what I have accomplished since I came to...
San Diego Welcomes Scripps Mercy Hospital Staff
In October 2010, eleven volunteer doctors, nurses, and administrative staff from Scripps Mercy Hospital visited the San Diego Job Corps Center and spoke with students about careers in the health care field. Among the groups in attendance were students in the center’s...
San Diego Job Corps Makes a Difference
“Our students and staff conduct thousands of hours of community volunteer service each year throughout San Diego County,” advised Frank Buttino, Business Community Liaison at the San Diego Job Corps Center. “It affords our students an opportunity to use skills they...
San Diego Job Corps Assists Barrio Station
“Job Corps has been a godsend for us. Without them, we couldn’t afford to fix our computers,” advised Barrio Station, San Diego founding member and Executive Director, Rachael Ortiz. “Eight years ago we partnered with the Urban League of San Diego County to build a...
San Diego Job Corps’ Award Winning Culinary Arts Students
During the second week of October 2010, four students from San Diego Job Corps’ Culinary Arts program participated in the 3rd Annual Culinary Expo at the Treasure Island Job Corps Center in San Francisco. Seventeen teams from Job Corps’ San Francisco Region took part...
San Diego Job Corps Assists San Diego Thunder Boat Regatta
In September 2010, San Diego Job Corps’ Carpentry trade once again took the lead in assisting at the 47th Thunder Boat Regatta held in Mission Beach, San Diego. This year, the Culinary Arts trade and the Computer trade joined the Carpentry students in helping out at...
Second American Red Cross Blood Drive at San Diego Job Corps This Year.
Continuing our partnership with the American Red Cross, the San Diego Job Corps students and staff donated 67 pints of blood at the September 28th center blood drive. The amount collected exceeded the 60 pints donated in June. “It was an awesome blood drive...
San Diego Job Corps Partnership with San Diego Housing Commission and Sherwin Williams Company
During September 2010, San Diego Job Corps partnered with the San Diego Housing Commission for Sherwin Williams Company’s ‘Home-Work’ Painting Training Course. Nine Job Corps students enrolled in the center’s Career Technical Training Painting program, teamed up with...
Young Legislators Internship Program at San Diego Job Corps Center
“I am interested in how the government works and asked a lot of questions in my Social Studies class at Job Corps,” Dawnyetta G. stated. “My SIATech instructor told me about the Young Legislators Internship Program that other students on center were involved in and I...