June 22nd, 2012
Gayle Owens, Community Outreach Coordinator for Little Rock Parks and Recreation, telephoned. I would know her lovable, Southern drawl anywhere. I also knew that she usually called about community business and when she had big jobs, she called us first. Little Rock Job Corps has the metal Gayle likes. Usually, we come enforce, well organized [...]
June 22nd, 2012
Keyeon Hopson entered Job Corps, focused. He never needed the redirection some students do. His uniform was always professional. He addressed staff with the respect of “Yes Sir, no Mam.” After choosing Culinary as his Trade of choice, he quickly excelled to campus Leadership. Mr. Hopson volunteered for the STARS Outreach Team and represented Job [...]
June 22nd, 2012
The Little Rock Job Corps Center’s logo has been placed on the Martin Luther King Commission’s Website. The Little Rock Job Corps Center’s STARS’ Outreach Team and Security Trade Students are often called upon to assist with large events. In addition, the Little Rock Job Corps Center is always invited to attend educational workshops and [...]
May 1st, 2012
The Little Rock Job Corps Center was asked to participate in the local Food Bank’s (Community Partner) largest fundraiser. The Security Trade and their instructor, directed traffic and provided crowd control and security. In addition, the Culinary Trade and their instructor, got the honor of working with the Chefs from Arkansas Governor’s Mansion… In response [...]
March 29th, 2012
The Little Rock Job Corps Center participated in “Keep Little Rock Beautiful” city cleanup for the second straight year. The Center students and staff cleaned the street in front of its current location, Scott Hamilton Drive. They also cleaned a local park (Wakefield Park) in cooperation with the Department of Housing & Neighborhood Programs and [...]
February 29th, 2012
The Little Rock Job Corps Center and The Little Rock Compassion Center ( http://lrcompassioncenter.org/press_release.php) have formed an Outreach partnership. Every Last Monday of each Month the Little Rock Job Corps Culinary class and Student Leadership Organization goes the Compassion Center which feeds and serves the homeless. The Culinary class cooks two meals lunch and preps [...]
December 14th, 2011
AmeriCorps and Job Corps Changing Lives Ulysses Harris (r) Ulysses Harris has a quiet, somewhat humble demeanor. Despite that, he shows an attitude of assuredness. What is most impressive about Mr. Harris is that, he “Models, Mentors and Monitors.” He Models by following the “Peer Normative Culture” of Job Corps. He dresses appropriately. He follows [...]
December 13th, 2011
It was good to see and entire classroom of students, excited about “Math” for a change. The Little Rock Job Corps Center has integrated a financial planning class into the Grad 90 course.
The NEFE HSFPP was designed and developed around a special type of education called performance-based learning. With performance-based learning, students take what they learn and apply it directly in the course of each unit. Carefully designed exercises and activities move the student step-by-step toward each of the seven core competencies that the program teaches. In the process, students
1. Create their own financial plan
2. Create their own budget
3. Propose a personal saving and investing plan
4. Select strategies to use in handling credit and managing their debt
5. Demonstrate how to use various financial services
6. Create a personal insurance plan
7. Examine how their choice of career and lifestyle will affect their financial plan
Along the way to learning these seven lessons, students also learn dozens of related skills, all designed to help them see how easy and important it is to manage their resources. http://hsfpp.nefe.org/channels.cfm?chid=97&tid=1&deptid=14
December 12th, 2011
Upon hearing of the “Be Decent” Campaign the Arkansas Food Bank’s Outreach Coordinator, made a surprising request. After receiving a photo of the actual pass, she replied, “Thank you! I would like to use this for our facebook page to encourage other businesses and organizations to do the same.”
December 12th, 2011
After working in the Arkansas Food Banks warehouse, organizing donations for the barren shelves Ms. Janet Ingram (l) presents the Food Bank’s Outreach Coordinator Ms. Katherine Kaigler with a Little Rock Job Corps Tee-Shirt & Recyclable carry bag.