There are now many new Red Card holders in the State of Alaska and they received their certification at the Alaska Job Corps. This is a supplemental tool in the Alaska Job Corps students’ toolbox. The primary goal of Alaska Job Corps is to train and place students...
Alaska Job Corps Adds Value to Training
For weeks students have been building and creating products for sale for an economic lesson at the Alaska Job Corps Center. As part of their training and academics, they planned, designed, and penciled out projects which they could afford (using training...
First Workforce Summit brings Crowd to Alaska Job Corps
Amazing Workforce Summit at Alaska Job Corps Center “How did you get so many employers to this function?” was the frequently asked question at the Alaska Job Corps Workforce Summit on November 17. The full size basketball court was packed with CEO’s, managing...
Keeping Energy High at the Alaska Job Corps Center
Winter darkness is pervasive in the higher latitudes and along with the darkness comes feelings of sadness and often depression. Recognizing this fact is a part of ongoing counseling and concern at the Alaska Job Corps Center. We know that employment training and...
Careers and Mountains are Lifetime Climbs.
The Alaska Job Corps program is more than a daily eight hour training program, five days a week. Both after class and on weekends, students continue to participate in leisure time activities with a purpose. Last weekend several students joined AKJCC Career Prep...
Alaska Job Corps Accounting Students Value Accuracy in Public Service Event
Alaska Job Corps Accounting Services students practice precision and responsibility in their book and trade training. But they also practiced these exact same skills in a Public Service event, in conjunction with the United Way of Mat Su. 1027 backpacks were filled...
Careers Begin Here: Alaska Job Corps Center teaches Students to See Future Opportunities
Sometimes it is just ‘a way of looking at things’, which will actually expand and change one’s perspective. At the Alaska Job Corps, students are taught to look beyond the immediate horizon. They’re encouraged to investigate various options and side pathways....
Alaska Job Corps students show that public service isn’t always a Flashy Selfie; sometimes you just have to put your boots on.
Alaska Job Corps students were doing public service, after the training day, for an elder with a goat farm. The students learned from the elder, helped with the goats and helped fix the fences. Public service isn’t always a flashy public effort. Sometimes it is just...
Alaska Job Corps Center is one of Largest Contributors to Major Recycling Facility
The Alaska Job Corps Center is one of the largest contributors to the Regional recycling facility in the Mat Su Borough. All classrooms, dormitory halls, residential rooms, administration and activity centers have their own building recycle stations with separation...
Business Brings Excel to Life for Accounting Students
Excel is just software-- until you see it in action. Twelve Alaska Job Corps Accounting students did just that--last week at the Matanuska Electric Association’s main headquarters. This was a hands on opportunity and students heard directly from employees in the...
Alaska Job Corps Center Embraces Challenges of Last Great Race
On March 6th, the Alaska Job Corps Center did not stand passively by as the 85 dog teams raced to Nome, during the 2016 Iditarod’s running of the Last Great Race. Instead, they were at the starting line in Willow Alaska. Students and recreation staff cheered,...
Job Corps Graduates already Employed and More to Come
The gym was full and there were no more chairs. Or bleachers. Or standing room. The place was jam packed on Friday, Feb 26 when 57 students graduated at the Alaska Job Corps in Palmer. Community leaders, friends, family, alumni, colleagues, employers and staff watched...
Alaska Job Corps students graduate into High Paying and Long Term Careers In Water Management
At nearly any Water plant in the State of Alaska, you will see former Job Corps students. The Job Corps Water/Waste Water program has graduated dozens and dozens of certified students, whom have sat successfully for their State Boards and gone on to high paying and...
Alaska Native Job Corps Students love Mat Su Community College Culture Club
Alaska Job Corps students “came home” at the Mat Su College’s Alaska Native Cultures Club Wednesday, November 18. The community college extension of the University of Alaska hosted a full day celebration in honor of the coming of winter, also known as “Heyi nittu,”...
Community appreciates Alaska Job Corps
Alaska Job Corps combines Training with important Public Service Projects
The Pump Track Kiosk is done, in the ground, and being used at Wilson Park in the City of Palmer. The Alaska Job Corps Carpentry students can check that particular project off their list. But their list is long. In the last year, these students in employment training...
Alaska Job Corps Removes Obstacles For Employment
Kayce Frantzich was almost 20 years old and had no GED, High school diploma, no certificates and little work experience. This was early 2002 and Frantzich had hit a major roadblock of opportunity. She found out about Alaska Job Corps Program, enrolled and was...
Alaska Job Corps graduates receive personal high praise from Senator and Governor
Alaska Job Corps graduates have a large community support group backing them. As they walked across the graduation stage last week, they shook hands with the Governor of the State of Alaska, Bill Walker; U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan; and President of Chugach Alaska...
Alaska Job Corps helps with Alaska State Fair Parade
The Palmer Police and Alaska State Troopers were assisted by the Protective Services students on Saturday, August 29. Thousands of visitors and fair goers flocked to town to see the official State Fair Parade wind itself through downtown Palmer Alaska. Standing neatly...
Alaska Job Corps Student Interns with Senator Begich’s office
When Danielle James started the Alaska Job Corps program last January, she had hoped to become employable. She has done far more than that in less than one year. Dani James, from Kenai, has earned and excelled in her academic and vocational training. She has held...