St. Louis Job Corps Center

While on a field trip to attend the May 2012 Senior Health Fair at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, CNA students Terriona Slayton, LaMartin Franklin, Darrow Sanders, Delora Milburn, and Jasmine Westbrook jumped into action to assist one of the elderly participants who had stepped off a curb and tripped while trying to load the [...]

St. Louis Job Corps students James Murrell (Painting) and Donnell Thomas (Culinary Arts) met with Congressman Clay at his 7th Annual Congressional Job Fair Harris-Stowe State University. The young men thanked the congressman for putting on the Annual Job Fair and discussed their career plans with him. James and Donnell along with 8 other students [...]

The St. Louis Job Corps is a community team player and our students helped move Earth “Day” to boost Urban Agriculture at Your’s Inc. Urban Farm. St. Louis Job Corps students Calvin Hardy (Pharmacy Tech), Crystal Hosch (TCU), Darrow Sanders (HOT), Dyvon Wayman (Carpentry), Everett Fry (Welding), Justin Graves (Security), and Peter Dantzler (HBI) signed [...]

Several current and former St. Louis Job Corps Center Office Assistant trade students participated in job shadowing with Central Portfolio Control Debt Collections Agency in Chesterfield, Missouri. They spoke with the Vice President of Business Development, Dean Christiansen about expectations of Collections Agents and details related to the Collections business. They received an actual breakdown [...]

Bringing business and networking opportunities to our students is a priority at the St. Louis Job Corps Center. On February 23, the African-American Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan St. Louis held its monthly meeting at the St. Louis Job Corps Center. Chef Kelly Ross’ Young Culinary Professionals prepared and served brunch to local business leaders. [...]

Hip Hop Health Initiative: Garden Box project.   Students from the HBI, Carpentry, and Painting trades at the St. Louis Job Corps program helped reconstruct and paint 15 garden boxes for the Hip Hop Health Initiative program.   The program is operated by David Sanders and Kyria Virshelle (Former Miss Black USA) and is a part of [...]

Matthews-Dickey Boys and Girls Club.   Three Job Corps students when to help do some basic clean up of newly donated ball fields.   The students spent 3 hours working on organizing materials for future services orientated projects at the 30 acre 10 ball field locations.   This project will continue throughout the following year as the Boys [...]

St. Louis Job Corps Students participated in a Family Hospice activity day taking young people who have lost a family member through games and activities to help them cope with the loss.   Activities included a Monkey Bridge, Water Balloon Toss, Three Lagged Race, Tipsy Turby, Bridges, and a Water Bottle Rocket Launch.    Saturday October 22, [...]

Jennings School District Health Fair: HOT students participated in a two month long health study in coordination with St. Louis University studying juvenile obesity in School.   The study began at the beginning of September and concluded on October 28th.   A total of 66 HOT and CMA students from the Center volunteered to do heights and [...]

Women take the lead in Student of the Month for the Construction Training Programs Chaylah Buntyn (Welding), LaShanequa  Kimmins (Carpentry), Angel Tolliver (Plastering), and Michelle Green (Painting) all received the Student of the Month Award for their trades  for September 2011.   These young women have risen to the top of their programs and show promise [...]