JOB CORPS The New Haven Job Corps Center’s C.N.A. and C.M.A. students teamed together to enroll donors for their second blood drive of the year. Students assisted American Red Cross volunteers in securing donor appointments, registering donors, assisting on the floor at the...
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New Haven Students Help Youth Groups
The Culinary Arts students baked a variety of desserts, and students volunteered at the Second Annual Come Together Dinner. Building Community to support youth, the Citywide Youth Coalition, local Collaboratives, Local Interagency Service Team (LIST), and area Youth...
Mark Shriver, National Keynote Speaker for New Haven Job Corps Center National Commencement Day
Ranked second in the nation for job placement, the New Haven Job Corps Center recently joined 125 Job Corps centers across the country to celebrate the second annual “National Job Corps Commencement Day” ceremony, and to congratulate the Job Corps graduates. Recent...
New Haven Job Corps Culinary Arts Students Receive President’s Volunteer Service Award
Culinary Arts students from the New Haven Job Corps Center were the recipients of the President’s Volunteer Service Award for their continuous efforts in helping out at the Connecticut Food Bank. The award, presented by President Obama’s Council on Service and Civic...
New Haven Job Corps Student Receives National Recognition
When carpentry instructor Windell Walker saw an opportunity to nominate a female for a non-traditional occupational trade award, New Haven Job Corps Student Michelle Johnson was an easy choice. The Office of Job Corps established the Better Occupational Opportunities...
New Haven Job Corps Recognized for Repairs on Rocky Neck Boardwalk
The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (CT DEEP) announced that all state parks and forests are open for the traditional Memorial Day weekend’s start to the summer season with many new features in place. At a weekend preview at Rocky Neck...
New Haven Job Corps Students Participate in Global Youth Service
Students at the New Haven Job Corps Center joined millions of youth around the world and made a difference on Global Youth Service Day. Certified Nursing Assistant (C.N.A.), and Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), students participated in a week long blood pressure...
New Haven Job Corps SGA “Give Back”
In an effort to “give back” to the community, the outgoing Student Government Association Officers of the New Haven Job Corps Center, voted to assist the West Rock Community Center’s afterschool program after hearing they had difficulty obtaining funding for games for...
Employment Opportunities Common Goal for New Haven Job Corps Center and Senator Blumenthal
The New Haven Job Corps Centers Outreach and Admissions Counselors, Lawrence Jackson and Basil Mitchell attended a job fair hosted by Senator Blumenthal at the Courtyard Marriott in Waterbury, CT on April 11, 2012. Mr. Jackson praised Senator Blumenthal for his...
New Haven Job Corps Leads Diabetes Awareness
As an offshoot of our Leadership Training Program, students discussed "giving back" and decided to raise awareness and “Walk for Diabetes” and to promote healthy choices. Over 144 students and staff walked the 2-mile long block of the New Haven Job Corps Center. ...
New Haven Job Corps Culinary Student Joins New WBL Site
New Haven Job Corps Culinary Arts student Gloria Coopwood is on a 10-week paid internship at a new Work Based Learning site for the New Haven Job Corps Center - Village Cafe, a local eatery and a social enterprise of Marrakech, Inc. The Village Café, located at 520...
HBI Retiree Back in the Classroom Making a Difference
Wanting to continue to make a difference is what drove Eddie Hakim out of retirement and back into the Job Corps classroom. After 21 years working for the Home Builders Institute at Job Corps Centers all over the region, Hakim called it a career. But after a two-year...
Student Job Shadowing
New Haven Job Corps students from several career paths joined more than one million young people nationwide this year to get a taste of the workplace from the professionals shaping it. The students participated once again in the annual Groundhog Job Shadow Day, an...
Job Corps Training Leads to Job Corps Job for FM Grad
The New Haven Job Corps trained Tyshawn Beckford so well in the Facilities Maintenance trade that two years later he landed a job on the Center maintenance team. “I love being here on campus again,” said 27-year-old Tyshawn, Class of 2009. “I wouldn’t trade this job...
New Haven Job Corps Center Earns Prestigious NEASC Accreditation
The New Haven Job Corps Center has earned accreditation from the prestigious New England Association of Schools & Colleges, Inc. Accreditation, which came in December following a two-year application process, indicates that the New Haven Center meets or exceeds...
CULINARY STUDENTS WIN CHOCOLATE AWARDS
The New Haven Job Corps now has an “award winning” Culinary Department, thanks to the students who prepared delights for a “friendly” chocolate competition and submitted entries to the 3rd Annual Valentine Chocolate Festival honoring “Children and Chocolate.” ...
To Our Job Corps students & Job Corps supporters throughout the U.S.A.
"You are important"..."you can achieve"..."to succeed you must exceed"..."you count in a big way"..."failure is not an option." These are but a few of the words we say to our students, and that students say to each other-every training day. Our thoughts turn...
New Haven Job Corps Center and Operation ELF
As part of CT Governor M. Jodi Rell’s Taskforce and holiday initiative, New Haven Job Corps Center students and staff partnered with the staff of CT DOL to collect toys for Operation ELF (an acronym for Embracing Lonely Families). The purpose of the drive is to...
New Haven Job Corps Center and Housing Authority of New Haven-HUD Success Story
In Job Corps' continuing effort to reach out to significant New Haven employers, a New Haven Job Corps Center carpentry student was hired in November by the Housing Authority of New Haven-HUD. Career technical training in the carpentry trade including certifications...
New Haven Job Corps Develops Community Garden
New Haven Job Corps in partnership with ACES (Area Cooperative Education Services), have begun developing a local community garden to be shared by the Center and the local community. This garden will be used to grow flowers, produce, and vegetables. This produce is...