Job Corps: Providing youth a second chance at life
By Michael Collins
Evening Sun Contributor
ONEONTA – Job Corps, a federally funded program under the United States Department of Labor, provides free education, vocational training and job placement services to underprivileged youth between the ages of 16 and 24.
Celebrating its 50 year anniversary this year, the Oneonta Job Corps Academy is on a mission to spread the word about the programs they offer to young people in Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego and Tioga counties.
The purpose of Job Corps, said Lynn Price of the Oneonta Job Corps Academy, is to see students through the education and training in a particular trade, and to actually place them in in a career. Furthermore, if the student has dropped out of high school, Job Corps will first help them achieve their high school diploma or their TASC (the new acronym for GED).
“When they walk into an employer, our graduates will already have the necessary skills in place,” said Price, giving them an advantage over other, less-qualified, applicants. “We arm them with a trade, if you will.”
In addition to readying students with career skills, Price said that they also equip students with “life skills.”
“We instill in our students a work ethic — the idea that they are not entitled; that they need to work for a living; that they must start at the bottom and work their way up.”
“Our ultimate goal,” said Price, “is to make them into better people.”
Job Corps offers open enrollment to youth between the ages of 16 and 24 whose income falls below the poverty line. Interested persons are invited to attend orientation and tour the beautiful Job Corps campus in Oneonta. Orientation will give interested persons a glimpse of the strict rules and regulations – school uniforms included – of Oneonta Job Corps Academy to see if it is a match for them.
Oneonta Job Corps offers education and training in a variety of fields including auto body, auto tech, facilities maintenance, electrical, tile setting and cement masonry, CMA, CNA, and medical office technology. For students who graduate from Job Corps with high honors, they are eligible to apply for training in “advanced trades” at Job Corps locations around the country.
About Job Corps, Price said, “It is a terrific opportunity for anyone for anyone between 16 and 24. If you know of any people floating around, doing nothing, have them call me.”
For more information about Job Corps and the services provided, interested persons can contact Lynn Price at 607-431-1446, Lisa Hall at 607-431-1445 or visit oneonta.jobcorps.gov.
Evening Sun Contributor
ONEONTA – Job Corps, a federally funded program under the United States Department of Labor, provides free education, vocational training and job placement services to underprivileged youth between the ages of 16 and 24.
Celebrating its 50 year anniversary this year, the Oneonta Job Corps Academy is on a mission to spread the word about the programs they offer to young people in Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego and Tioga counties.
The purpose of Job Corps, said Lynn Price of the Oneonta Job Corps Academy, is to see students through the education and training in a particular trade, and to actually place them in in a career. Furthermore, if the student has dropped out of high school, Job Corps will first help them achieve their high school diploma or their TASC (the new acronym for GED).
“When they walk into an employer, our graduates will already have the necessary skills in place,” said Price, giving them an advantage over other, less-qualified, applicants. “We arm them with a trade, if you will.”
In addition to readying students with career skills, Price said that they also equip students with “life skills.”
“We instill in our students a work ethic — the idea that they are not entitled; that they need to work for a living; that they must start at the bottom and work their way up.”
“Our ultimate goal,” said Price, “is to make them into better people.”
Job Corps offers open enrollment to youth between the ages of 16 and 24 whose income falls below the poverty line. Interested persons are invited to attend orientation and tour the beautiful Job Corps campus in Oneonta. Orientation will give interested persons a glimpse of the strict rules and regulations – school uniforms included – of Oneonta Job Corps Academy to see if it is a match for them.
Oneonta Job Corps offers education and training in a variety of fields including auto body, auto tech, facilities maintenance, electrical, tile setting and cement masonry, CMA, CNA, and medical office technology. For students who graduate from Job Corps with high honors, they are eligible to apply for training in “advanced trades” at Job Corps locations around the country.
About Job Corps, Price said, “It is a terrific opportunity for anyone for anyone between 16 and 24. If you know of any people floating around, doing nothing, have them call me.”
For more information about Job Corps and the services provided, interested persons can contact Lynn Price at 607-431-1446, Lisa Hall at 607-431-1445 or visit oneonta.jobcorps.gov.
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