Treasure Island Job Corps

On Monday, March 26th, Treasure Island Job Corps Center Director David Miller and Jamba Juice Chairman and CEO James D. White formally announced an important partnership aimed at paving the way for Job Corps students to gain critical workforce skills to help them succeed in the culinary and food service sectors. At an event marking [...]

 Former Treasure Island Job Corps Center  Facilities Maintenance  student; now renowned rapper with recording contract with Columbia records Kreayshawn (Natassia Zolot )  was featured in the SF Chronicle of 12/22/2011. She was featured in SF Chronicle giving credit to Treasure Island Job Corps as having turned her life around! She is quoted as saying ““I [...]

Our students received acclaim and a feature in the main Chinese Bay Area Newspaper- “Sing Tao” “ Sing Tao” is the #1 NEWSPAPER for the Chinese, Cantonese, Mandarin etc speaking population- Chinese Press in the Bay Area, and has a HUGE readership. It is a HUGE boon to have a “lay” organization included, featured in [...]

In December, our Facilities Maintenance students were honored at festive luncheon for Stellar work on Treasure Island’s lovely Pavilion. Some of our students have been hired to work on our island such as our Security Students to support “TI Flea” by proprietors Charles & Angie Ansanelli. Our students have done such stellar work that this [...]

  Last week, several students and staff drawn from TIJCC’s Solar, Advanced & Basic Culinary, and Construction Trades programs highlighted new green skills learned as part of the “Go Green” event held on center. The event was covered by 106 KMEL, a popular radio station in the Bay Area.   The event highlighted students talking [...]

TIJCC/Advanced Culinary student featured on KTVU “Bay Area People” www.ktvu.com/community)   　 Shawntae did a great job of sharing some “tidbits” about the center and the advanced Culinary program. 　We even had 　mouthwatering pictures of her 　final project for the baking and pastry class -a wedding cake and some desserts- shown on the very short [...]

in a recent community project between the Treasure Island Job Corps Construction Trades Crew and Wine Valley Catering; our students receieved a well earned kudos for the quality of their work. So good, that owner and proprietor of Wine Valley Catering, Ms. Lorene McCaffrey sent the following letter: Way to go TIJCC crew!!     [...]

Treasure Island Job Corps Chef Discusses Student Nutrition at Washington Summit Visits White House Food Garden, Competes against Other Job Corps Chefs 9/16/2011 – Cafeteria Manager Ray Galicia of Treasure Island Job Corps joined other Job Corps chefs from across the country in the nation’s capital to share creative ways to serve more nutritious food [...]

Summer Break was a busy time for the farm, as it played host to some of the most important, hard-working people on campus: our Staff! As things slowed down, staff found time to stroll through the farm, take a tour, and even munch on a carrot. Many hadn’t ever stepped past the farm gate, but [...]

On Monday, April 11th, six hardy Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) students awoke at the crack of dawn (3:30 am to be exact!) to join 2136 other health care professionals who signed up to serve as volunteers in the Remote Area Medical (RAM) volunteer clinics held in Sacramento and Oakland these past two weeks. Our students [...]