Blue Ridge Job Corps Center

Blue Ridge student Devitta Jones has been hired as a full time CNA at Valley Health Care Center.  Valley Health Care Center is a long and short term care facility for adults and one of Blue Ridge Job Corps Work Based Learning partners.  Devitta is a former volunteer at  Valley helping residents in various ways.  Stacy Taylor, the Director of Nursing, [...]

Blue Ridge Job Corps’ own Mickaala Rodriguez is the National Job Corps Website “Featured Student of the Month” for December.   Mickaala, from Yorktown, Virginia, is currently doing work based learning in the Center’s Security Office.  She has a beutiful voice and along with two of her friends, sang the ”Star Spangled Banner” at Blue Ridge’s Graduation on Decmber 19, 2012.  [...]

This week, Secretary Solis expressed heartfelt condolences to the family, friends and classmates of 18-year-old Blue Ridge Job Corps student Misladis “Milly” Almaguer who earned her high school diploma days before succumbing to cancer on Nov. 23. On medical leave for cancer treatment since June, Milly told center staff, “I don’t care if I only [...]

November 10, 2011 – Bright skies and a brisk wind greeted the 38 participants in last Saturday’s Blue Ridge Job Corps “Make a Difference 5K’ sponsored by the school’s Blue Ridge Against Drugs club.  Ranging in age from 7 to 69, the runners completed the 3.1 mile course for a good cause, raising money for [...]

Students gathered around local veterans for a lunchtime event to celebrate and thank the veterans for all they have done for our country.  Students told the veterans of stories of how their family members have been involved with war efforts over the last 10 years of 9/11.

Students from Blue Ridge Job Corps Center were out and about several local healthcare facilities during Make A Difference week.  Students volunteers shined, as they proved their skills to the local Senior Center, Lifetme Wellness Center, Valley Healtcare, Smyth County Free Clinic and Smyth County Community Hospital.  The students conducted several health screenings ranging from [...]

In a recent meeting with a local Assisted Living facility in Marion, VA, BCL, Laura lincoln, found our just how important Blue Ridge Job Corps is to one local employer. Hands of Grace Assisted Living has hired several BRJCC as CNAs and Medication Aides.  Administrator, Tonya Tuell, stated “I could not live without the Blue [...]

Studying to become a nurse or medical assistant, doesn’t just mean taking vital signs and blood samples.  For some of our students, entering the medical field has presented other opportunities that might seem a little different than working in your average doctor office.  For our students, one particular opportunity is working with the Smyth County [...]

Smyth County News & Messenger – August 20, 2011 – Staff Writer, Dan Kegley “Painting down the Groundwork” published by Smyth County News and Messenger on Aug. 20, 2011. The article showcased BRJCC students who are volunteering on the weekends to help paint a community mural that will be displayed on the side of a [...]

Smyth County News & Messenger – Dan Kegley, Staff Writer It was all quiet on the set, atleast among those seated in the bleachers.  Out on the floor of Boehm Gym at Blue Ridge Job Corps Center Friday, however, students and staff, including center director Carol Parsons, were moving and grooving to the beat and [...]