Posts Tagged ‘Joliet Job Corps’

Joliet Job Corps is hosting a fundraising luncheon

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.

“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, 21, of Joliet said he learned a hard lesson [...]

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 William; his father [...]

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 be panelists [...]

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 Technician and Certified Nursing Assistant vocational trade completion. Once she started Pharmacy Tech, [...]

Graduate of Joliet Job Corps now works as Yale security officer

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 partners with other community agencies to help urban youth avoid gangs, prison

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