JOB CORPS Nine carpentry trainees from Charleston Job Corps, along with their instructor, Tommy Fitzwater, were asked by the Carpenters Local Union 439 to help with a project the Make A Wish Foundation had planned for a disabled child in Procious, WV. The child was born with...
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Volunteer WV speaks of the AmeriCorps Program to Charleston Job Corps Career Transition Readiness Students.
Dana Bryant of Volunteer WV, was a guest speaker at the Charleston Job Corps Center on September 18, to bring awareness of the opportunity afforded by AmeriCorps. Dana a former AmeriCorps Vista participant, shared her stories and gave examples of aid and assistance...
Modern Men volunteer at Urban Agriculture Conference, Expo
Students learn about urban gardening Members of Charleston Job Corps' student group "Modern Man" volunteered at the West Virginia Urban Agriculture Conference and Community Expo May 3-4, held on the campus of West Virginia State University. Ten club members served as...
Charleston Job Corps Center gets competitive with campus beautification
Senior Residential Advisor, Anita Dunnigan, assists students with the Planting for Peace competition. Dorms vie for top honors in courtyard flowerbed planting, designs. Y2Y Ambassadors and SGA sponsored a competition May 18 to encourage students to participate in the...
Charleston Joins the YWCA in the Race to end Racism April 27
The 3rd annual YWCA Race to End Racism, presented by TransCanada Corporation, is a 5K Run/1 Mile Walk on Charleston’s West Side on Saturday, April 27, 2019. Charleston Job Corps Center participated with a team of four members who were Dyesha Lee, Taveon Newby,...
Charleston Job Corps Center aides with Community Garden on the West Side of Charleston
In acknowledgement of Earth Day, Charleston Job Corps partners with Tom Toliver and the West Virginia State University Land Grant Extension to aid in preparation for the new community garden on Charleston’s West Side on April 22. Students from student government...
Charleston Job Corps Joins City of Charleton’s Spring Clean-Up Initiative
Spring cleaning is right around the corner for many, including some communities in our region. Every Saturday in April, the city of Charleston took part in the “Capital City Team Up to Clean Up” event. The projects consisted of litter collection, landscaping, fence...
Charleston Job Corps Center Prepares Breakfast for Families at Ronald McDonald House
Charleston Job Center students and staff prepared breakfast for the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern West Virginia on December 16. Three Students, Isaiah Smith Owens, Kiera Waters and Nadaysha Osborne and Two Staff, Nancy Shepherd, BCL and Tierah Williams,...
Whitney Young Partners with Food Literacy Project
On September 5, Whitney Young Job Corps hosted the Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm to park their edible, mobile learning garden - the Louisville Truck Farm on campus. Giving the Whitney Young Job Corps culinary students the opportunity to pick by hand fresh from...
Keeping our Red Rock community clean
Staff and students took advantage of the mild temperatures on Wednesday, February 14 to clean up garbage and debris on Center. Every Career Technical Training area participated. Above, Auto Collision Repair students, Bir Setisuruwal (left) and Kevin Perry clean up.
North Texas Job Corps Center Carpentry Class Honored by the North Collin County Habitat for Humanity
The North Texas Job Corps Carpentry class was the recipient on January 19th of the esteemed "2017 Habitat Outstanding Youth Group Award" for their excellent workmanship with the North Collin County Habitat for Humanity affordable home building efforts. This...
Charleston Job Corps Center supports YMCA Mel Wolf Child Dev. Center-May 2017
The YMCA-Mel Wolf Child Development Center recently received a grant to start a garden for the children at its local daycare facility. The center was able at its local daycare facility. The center was able to purchase all the materials and obtain a garden specialist...
Charleston Job Corps Center unites with Hubbard Hospice House-May 2017
The Facility Maintenance (FM) Dept. at Hubbard Hospice House received much needed assistance with projects, thanks to CJCC student Mark Pollard, who is completing a work-based learning internship with the hospice organization for his facilities maintenance trade....
Alaska Job Corps Center earns Alaskans for Litter Prevention and Recycling Outstanding Community Recycling Program Award for 2016
Being green is a way of life at the Alaska Job Corps Center, and that commitment to sustainability was recognized on Thursday when the Alaskans for Litter Prevention and Recycling program presented Alaska Job Corps with the 2016 Outstanding Community Recycling Program...
Charleston Job Corps Center students support Equal Pay-April 2017
The Charleston Job Corps Center (CJCC) operating under Horizons Youth Services (HYS) supports Equal Pay for Women Day observed April 4, 2017. The date symbolizes how far women must still go in the year to earn the same amount of money men earned in the previous year....
Charleston Job Corps Center observes Earth Week 2017-April 21, 2017
The Charleston Job Corps Center (CJCC) operating under Horizons Youth Services (HYS) observed Earth Week with community beautification projects on Tuesday, April 18 at The Father’s House Church with Pastor Lloyd Hill and Friday, April 21 with Charleston Kanawha...
Charleston Job Corps Center lends a hand to The Father’s House-April 18, 2017
CJCC students from the career technical trade of Facilities Maintenance gave a helping hand to The Father's House church on Tuesday, April 18, 2017 in honor of Earth Week. Pastor Lloyd Hill requested students help clear debris and prepare the outside area for flower...
From “Nothing to Everything” in less than 2 years
Andrew Bruketta is leaving the Alaska Job Corps for a job. And it isn’t just any old job. It is a highly skilled position, with excellent benefits, leave and expected to pay well over 60,000 a year. Andrew says frankly that Job Corps is whatever you make it. “Just...
Leadership is Growing at the Alaska Job Corps Center
NEW ENERGY WITH STUDENT GROUPS AT THE ALASKA JOB CORPS CENTERS The Alaska Job Corps Center Student Government Association (SGA)is revved up with a new board and a new heart. Student government sets the standard for rest of the students at the Alaska Job Corps...
REDUCE FOOD WASTE, GET RID OF TRAYS!!!
Finding simple solutions to reducing food waste can be the best. The Center decided to eliminate the use of trays in an effort to reduce food waste. When students have a tray to fill with food, they’ll do just that. And more often than not, students realize their eyes...