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Education…the Best Gift!

Graduate Brian Simmons at the Gainesville Job Corps Center says he received the best gift of all this holiday season while enrolled at Job Corps----he received his High School Diploma and he has a job! “I passed the FCAT and ACT and now I am a High School graduate,”...

GJCC Career Expo

Dozens of students from 5 of the Alachua County High Schools poured into the Gainesville Job Corps Center earlier this month to learn about the center’s career technical opportunities . November 1st, the Center hosted it's 4th annual Career Expo. Job Corps trains and...

Pre-Law Student Goes to Work!

Pre Law Graduate Sam Reese is proud of his accomplishments. Reese said he enrolled in the Job Corps program in July of 2011. Now, just a little over a year later, Reese is a certified security officer with his first job! Reese was hired at PCI Security, which is a...

GJCC Student Goes to Work!

Ronesha Butler, a recent graduate of the Gainesville Job Corps Center, successfully secured employment on June 15th, with Home BY Choice. Ronesha’s trade of choice was CN A  and she received her Home Health Aid Certification. Some of  Ronesha’s  responsibilities...

GJCC Student Spotlighted in Del-Jen News…

Gainesville Job Corps Center’s scholarship recipient, Zana Green, was elated when she received the news that she’d been chosen above all the other applicants at the Center to receive Fluor’s $5,000 Job Corps Scholarship. “I’ve applied for scholarships before but never...

Employer Shares the Job Corps Works Story!

Job Corps Works for Employers! Securitas is an international security contractor and one of our sites is the SiVance LLC plant in Gainesville, Florida. Securitas and SiVance are both thankful to the Job Corps Center for training highly skilled, dedicated and committed...

MEDIA-Student Says Job Corps Saved His Life!

Reichert students get lesson in HIV/AIDS By AIDA MALLARD Special to the Guardian Published: Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 6:01 a.m. AIDA MALLARD/Special to the Guardian Calvin Washington, a 20-year-old student at Job Corps, talked about losing his mother to HIV/AIDS...

GJCC Participates in the Air Potato Roundup

Five students at GJCC had the opportunity to participate in Gainesville’s largest community event on Saturday, January 28th, 2012. More than 1,000 volunteers came together for the 13th Annual Great Air Potato Roundup, which is modeled after a litter clean up, to...

HIV/Aids Awareness Day Recognized at GJCC

Students at the Gainesville Job Corps Center know how to protect themselves against HIV/AIDS. February 7th is nationally recognized as Black Aids Awareness Day. Students held an educational assembly about the dangers of unprotected sex. Student Kenneth White rapped...

Job Corps Works Editorial…

Committed Community Business Partner Nkwanda Jah shared a letter with the editor explaining how the Job Corps Program Works in Gainesville. Below is a copy of the editorial: The Job Corps works One of the most important keys to Gainesville's economic recovery is the...