JOB CORPS Submitted story to The Times Weekly in Joliet details the month-long activities at Joliet Job Corps that made up Make A Difference Month. We didn't do one day ... or even one week -- we had volunteer activities twice a week the entire month.
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Job Corps celebrates smoke-free living
Story in Nov. 16 Herald News talks about the Kickers program at Joliet Job Corps, a successful anti-smoking program, and the teacher who started the program. Story was pitched as a Great American Smokeout story. Staff photographer and staff reporter were very...
Where the Wild Things Are — Joliet Job Corps
Joliet Herald News runs two photos of our students volunteering at GR2012: Celebrating Sustainability, an ecology festival held May 19 at Joliet Junior College. The photos show student Darrell Conley of Memphis, Tn., trying to return a snake to its owner while it is...
Rep. Judy Biggert visits Joliet Job Corps
The Joliet Times Weekly ran a photo and story about the May 2 visit of Rep. Judy Biggert to Joliet Job Corps. She stayed for 3 hours and left with a favorable impression, the news story said.
Helping Hands — Joliet Job Corps
photo and caption ran in The Herald News about Joliet Job Corps students tacking for the second year painting stencils with message "Dump No Waste Leads to River" for City of Joliet. This helps preserve the DuPage River watershed. This Job Corps also performed this...
Joliet Job Corps honors supporters at commencement
http://heraldnews.suntimes.com/news/11100382-418/joliet-job-corps-honors-supporters-at-commencement.html Updated: March 8, 2012 2:39AM JOLIET — Joliet Job Corps gave three awards to those who play an important — and unpaid — role during its winter commencement...
Hold the phone!
A funny thing happened at the Feb. 10 winter commencement at Joliet Job Corps. Someone's cellphone went off while commencement speaker and retired Judge Raymond Bolden was speaking. He reached into his pocket, and pulled out his own ringing phone, which he immediately...
Creating Opportunities: Message to Students
Joliet Job Corps' winter commencement ceremonies was titled "Creating Opportunities; Achieving Success" and featured retired Will County Circuit Judge Raymond Bolden and Will County Executive Larry Walsh. A story and two photos about the event were featured in The...
What Groundhog?
Joliet Job Corps was recently featured in The Joliet Times Weekly participating in Groundhog Job Shadow Day, a national Job Corps initiative. A photo shows a rep from Valspar at Loewe's demonstrating the right way to fill a paint brush to student Jharitae Daniels.
Joliet Job Corps thanked for letter to editor
Joliet Job Corps was recently mentioned in a local newspaper Letter to the Editor thanking the Center for participating in the Jan. 16 Martin Luther King Day On, Not Off. Twenty-four students worked with several other agencies making valentines for veterans, cleaning...
Chef is cooking for a cause
Joliet Job Corps is hosting a fundraising luncheon
What a difference one week can make
Make A Difference Day isn't just a day for Joliet Job Corps. Students and staff performed nearly 450 hours of volunteer work over seven days, including at five Head Stars centers. These two photos and this text ran in Nov. 1 Herald News, Joliet, IL.
Bringing Your A Game Makes A Difference
“Show me your friends and I will show you your future,” said Ron Hill of Suda Mixed Martial Arts Academy. In other words, are your friends helping or hindering you? When you’re a teen-ager, friends mean the world, sometimes even more than family. But William Little,...
Young Men to Bring Their ‘A’ Game to Joliet Job Corps
William Little, 21, grew up the hard way due to his own bad choices. "I come from a good family," he said. The first 11 years, he was pretty much a good kid with a normal life. But that changed when his parents divorced after moving to Savannah, Ga. His mother kept...
Event at Joliet Job Corps Encourages Youth to Succeed
JOLIET — “We can be more than our environment,” said James Hill, of Suda Mixed Martial Arts Academy in Joliet. “My brother and I grew up on the southeast side and there were a lot of drugs and gangs, but we didn’t want to go that way.” James and his brother Ron will...
LPN Advanced Training Graduate Visits Joliet Job Corps
Former Joliet Job Corps graduate and completer of the Cassadaga LPN advanced training program stopped by the Center to pay a visit to her old instructors. Since her enrollment at the Joliet Job Corps Center, she accomplished many things including her Pharmacy...
Graduate Makes Joliet Job Corps Proud
Graduate of Joliet Job Corps now works as Yale security officer
Thousands of Will County Residents Seek Help for School Kids
Joliet Job Corps students assist at Back to School Fair that serves more than 4,000 people. Student remembers when he stood in line seven years ago at the same fair for a “hand up” and now he’s volunteering to help others.
Joliet Job Corps’ New A Team: Men Share Stories to Encourage Youth
Joliet Job Corps partners with other community agencies to help urban youth avoid gangs, prison
Eco-friendly fun with Joliet Job Corps
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