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Toys for Tots project

Sometimes good deeds are rewarded! Members of the Salvation Army team came to the Hubert H Humphrey campus to treat the students with a pizza party, T-shirts, backpacks and certificates of recognition for their efforts during the Toys for Tots registration process....

Youth Legislative Day 2013

HH Humphrey student government members participated in Youth Legislative Day at the Capitol as advocates for the Job Corps program. They were given a special privilege by Senator John Hoffman who brought them onto the floor of the Senate and up onto the dais for a...

Como Conservatory Water Gardens

Just in time for Memorial Day 2013, Humphrey’s HBI students and their instructor worked on the installation of the Water Gardens at the Como Conservatory. Water gardening gives these students a unique training as part of their landscaping training requirements. The...

Trade Expo

HH Humphrey held a career fair on the campus. Students were the exhibitors, like CNA student Chris Russ who got the chance to explain his CNA/HHA trade training program to Paul Rheingans, Employment and Financial Coach for CommonBond Communities. CommonBond is the...

Office Administration credentials

At the core of what we all do, the most exciting times at Job Corps are in the classroom. These six Humphrey students have challenged themselves and each other to earn as many certifications as possible in their Office Administration trade. As a group, they have...

Salvation Army Red Kettles

The Salvation Army is getting ready for the kick-off of its Red Kettle annual campaign. In the Minneapolis-St Paul metro area, there will be 2000 bell ringers out with their red kettles during the holidays, hoping to raise $9.8 million locally to support their...

Dinner with Santa and Ms Claus

Humphrey students were charming as Santa’s helpers and elves at the local Langford Park holiday dinner with Santa and Mrs. Claus. It gave the students a chance to meet the one hundred and forty neighbors who attended. This annual event is a favorite in the...

Citywide recognition for HH Humphrey

“For over thirty years, the Hubert H Humphrey Job Corps Center has been a part of the Como Park neighborhood. The center and its students have become an important part of the fabric of our neighborhood. Each year dozens of Job Corps students donate hundreds of...

Feed My Starving Children

Fifty-one Humphrey TCU students and staff prepared and packed 19,244 MannaPack™ meals at Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) for delivery to Haiti. Working in teams, they packed rice, extruded soy nuggets, a mixture of vitamins, minerals and a vegetarian flavoring with...

Christmas in May

Painting students from Hubert H Humphrey’s IUPAT program participated in the Christmas in May Chaska. Chaska is a small community of 27,000+ located southwest of the Minneapolis-St Paul metro area in the Minnesota River Valley. It is home to the Jonathan Association,...

Lyngblomsten Summer event

Humphrey student volunteers spent the last Saturday of their summer break helping at the Lyngblomsten Mid-Summer Festival. This event attracted over 1500 visitors to enjoy food, games, artists and entertainment on the Lyngblomsten campus. 140 musicians and actors...

Construct Tomorrow hands-on event

Seventeen skilled trade unions participated in a hands-on expo on the grounds of Hubert H Humphrey to give our young people and other students the chance to learn about the building trades and find out about apprenticeships. The unions set up stations around the...

Summer 2014 Graduation

Hubert H Humphrey held its Summer Graduation on August 8, 2014. There were seventy-six graduates with fourteen platinum card-holders among them. Thirty of the graduates completed in health care fields, Certified Nursing Assistant and Medical Office Support. Medical...

Emergency Medical Technicians Academy

Three students from Humphrey graduated from the EMS Academy, Tarence Wade, Ravinia Walker and Yessica Perez-Montoya. These students and previous graduates from Humphrey have completed either Medical Office Support or the Certified Nursing Assistant programs. The Saint...

Community clean-up

Humphrey students were volunteers at the annual Community Clean-up, a three-district effort that recycles and disposes of several hundred tons of debris from the neighborhoods. Furniture, bikes, TVs and other useable items are given to groups that help families in...

Fundraiser for slain officer

Four Culinary Arts students from HH Humphrey were chili chefs at a fundraiser for a Mendota Heights police officer shot to death during a routine traffic stop. Officer Scott Patrick left behind a wife and two daughters and the money raised will go into the Scott...

Congressman Erik Paulson

Congressman Erik Paulson, R-MN 3rd Congressional District, visited Humphrey Job Corps to tour the center and meet with students working on their skills. He visited classrooms and chatted with students, asking them about their trades and their plans for the future. It...

Employer Appreciation

“My employer told me the Job Corps students I sent him were professional, polite and well-spoken and he’d hire a hundred if he could!” commented Seth Wellnitz, a recruiter from Command Center, during a lunch at Humphrey. Hubert H Humphrey hosted an Employer...