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Jaguar Fitness Club Welcomes Guest Instructor

In a great finale to a week dedicated to health and fitness and hosted by the Jaguar Fitness Club, Charles Murray, the exercise physiologist, wellness coach and certified yoga instructor from New Lenox’s Silver Cross Hospital led a boot camp-style workout for staff...

Learning Healthy Habits

During a health awareness event that was held on Aug. 15 and sponsored by the Joliet Jaguar Fitness Club and Heals, students were honored to have guest speaker Charles Murray, an exercise physiologist who also is a wellness coach and a certified yoga instructor at...

Joliet Job Corps Center’s August Graduation

The Joliet Job Corps Center’s Aug. 12 Commencement Ceremony honored 94 students who successfully completed the program. After the graduates marched into the Center’s large auditorium, Deputy Center Director Gloria Whatley urged each one to be a good citizen and to...

Kickers T-Shirt Contest: Let’s Quit Smoking

During the first two weeks of July, students were invited to create drawings that would become a new logo for the Kickers, a group of 11 students who work with TEAP Specialist Patricia Alberty as they try to quit smoking cigarettes. The drawings were displayed in Ms....

The Y2Y “Cut It!” Challenge

Students gathered in the large auditorium on July 21 for the “Cut It!” Student Assembly. Hosted by the Y2Y Partners for Peace, the event marked the launch of a new challenge involving a spin-off of the popular hip hop song, “Cut It.” The goal of the challenge is to...

RISE Leaders Visit the Center

For the past few years, the staff of the RISE Alternative High School in Chicago Heights, Ill., have referred some students to the Joliet Job Corps Center. But they never had seen it for themselves. On Aug. 8, Principal Ken Peterson, Social Worker Tim Keene and...

Grad 90 Students Attend Chicago Career Fair

Grad 90 students enjoyed a trip at the end of July to the Chicago Career Fair at the Chicago Congress Hotel. The students thought that the employers were very professional and friendly at each table. During the fair, they had an opportunity to speak to representatives...

Meeting Congressman Dan Lipinski

The Joliet Job Corps Center’s Student Ambassadors traveled to Palos Hills, Ill.,  on July 25 to meet congressman Dan Lipinski and his staff. The Ambassadors wanted to talk to the Congressman about the Job Corps program and their studies, so they stopped by the...

Enriching Activities After the Training Day

When the training day is over, it’s time for fellowship and fun at the Joliet Job Corps Center. The Center’s Counselors and Recreation Specialists put lots of time and effort into organizing enriching activities for the students that are really enjoyable. Sometimes...

Disabilities and the Work Force

There are businesses who want to hire workers with disabilities. The leaders of these businesses think that these workers can be just as good -- if not better -- employees as anyone else. That’s the message shared by Bill Emmett, a consultant for Tangram Business...

Grad 90 Attends Job Fair

A group of Grad 90 students dressed in their finest business attire on July 20 and set out on a job hunt. Accompanied by Career Transition staff members Candace Brown, Shenika Bradley and Cheryl Jessup, they attended the Shiloh Baptist Church’s Career Fair. The...

Cement Students Go to Work

A group of Joliet Job Corps Center Cement students set the forms and then finished the new slabs of concrete for a picnic shelter in Winthrop Harbor, Ill. It was volunteer work. They were helping Trentin Heiny, a Winthrop Harbor resident, with his Eagle Scout project...