May 13th, 2013
April 25th, 2013 SJCC held there annual Earth Day event today, staff and students participated in planting trees, flowers and put down bart in flower beds through out the center. All staff and students had Earth Day everyday T-shirts on as everyone participated in a different areas on center. Colton Chaney, Landscaping instructor and Jamis Jones, Director of [...]
May 3rd, 2013
Springdale students and staff didn’t just celebrate Earth Day, they celebrated April as Earth Month! Although Springdale’s “Green Team” is active on center all year round, the team took April as an opportunity for education and outreach on center and in the community about environmental issues. The Green Team shared information for all staff and [...]
April 29th, 2013
In honor of Global Youth Service Day, the students and staff of the Gerald R. Ford Job Corps Center all joined together for the morning of April 26th and volunteered at local non-profit e-recycling organization Comprenew. Comprewnew is a free community electronics recycling organization that works to keep e-waste out of landfills. All 200 students [...]
April 24th, 2013
The Charleston Job Corps Center (CJCC) operating under Horizons Youth Services (HYS) celebrated Earth Day, April 22, 2013 and during the week of April 22-26, 2013. The Center kicked off activities with a student and staff assembly that featured information regarding the theme of Earth Day 2013 – Climate Change and watched Al Gore’s Project [...]
April 12th, 2013
Almond, NC – The U.S. Forest Service conducted a prescribed burn April 10th, 2013 on about 800 acres in the Cheoah Ranger District, Nantahala National Forest. Students from the Oconaluftee Job Corps CCC Forestry Conservation and Wildland Firefighting program were on hand to help burn out road line and watching for spot fires as the [...]
January 1st, 2013
Beginning January 1, 2013, Clearfield Job Corps will implement a campus-wide tobacco ban. Clearfield Job Corps staff members have been tobacco free since July 1, 2011. The tobacco restriction will now extend to all 1,120 students who attend the technical training center. “Given the current 60% tobacco use rate on campus, this change in policy [...]
December 21st, 2012
A special article was in the newspaper, Flint-Our Community Our Voice, while serving their community while learning to paint as a vocation. Students painted a mural on the barn of Calvary Lutheran Church – “Come Grow With Us”. One student explained “I used to be one of the people coming to get food – now [...]
December 21st, 2012
A special article was in the CPS Courier Newspaper of Flint Genesee Job Corps students giving back to the community in a big way by participating in the Make a Difference Day event, assisting 13 organizations to include big Brothers Bib Sisters of greater Flint, American Cancer Society – Breast Cancer Walk, Foster Hope- Shy [...]
December 18th, 2012
Fred G. Acosta students and staff spent Make A Difference Day helping and lending support to several local charities and civic events. The student body even helped with a massive neighborhood walk through clean up effort where they collected dozens of plastic bags filled with trash. In total FGA students totaled 355 and staff 26 [...]