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Display For West Michigan Home and Garden Show Becomes a Learning Opportunity The Home Builders Association of Greater Grand Rapids (HBA) will partner with the Home Builders Institute (HBI), a workforce training program at the Gerald R. Ford Job Corps Center, to create the Home & Garden Show grand entrance. The show opens February 28 [...]

Twelve Clearfield Job Corps students visited the MTC Corporate Office on Friday, February 1 for a job shadow experience with corporate staff. They visited the staff member offices, learned the specifics of their positions and were provided lunch. Each student was asked to bring their resume and the corporate employees gate them pointers on what [...]

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 [...]

McKinney Rotary Christmas Parade of Lights

The Clearfield Job Corps Center in Clearfield, Utah, was selected as the “Cool School of The Week” by local television channel Fox-13. The TV station’s morning show featured the school in eight segments and highlighted the school’s cooking, welding, electrical and automotive programs. The center offers training in 17 trades for young people 16 to [...]

The annual Laughs at Lunch at the Ogden Marriott Hotel in support of EnableUtah was held Thursday, October 25. Members of the community had an opportunity to help people with disabilities get jobs, while at the same time enjoy an entertaining lunch. The event featured lunches prepared by Ogden chefs and a comedy show by [...]

Job Corps students that have reached the end of their training program need real-world work experience before they begin their careers. Two young mechanics are getting that opportunity at UDOT’s Central Heavy Duty Shop where they serve as interns. For those interns and the UDOT mechanics that provide supervision, the experience has been very positive. [...]

North Texas Job Corps and Chi Zeta Omega partnered to register students to vote.  Volunteers from the chapter met with new arrivals on September 27, 2012 and spoke to the students about the importance of registering and the importance of voting.  The students were able to ask questions and received  answers that helped them make an informed [...]

Fourteen Alaska Job Corps students arrived at the Birchtree Charter School on a misty Friday morning.  Each student was geared up with hard hats and  safety boots.  As they filed off the bus, they were uncomfortable.  This was a busy and unfamiliar place.   The Charter school’s “natural playscape”construction plans appeared ambitious and unique. The students [...]

The Maine Conservation Corps (MCC) field team requested assistance in projects that were being done in Aroostook County. The outreach Coordinator and volunteer, Sarah Kilch Gaffney stated that MCC completes projects on the Appalachian Trail, State Parks and several public reserved lands, as well as municipalities and local land trusts. Loring Job Corps Cement Masonry [...]