Job Corps students help spruce up their community

About a dozen students from Reno’s Sierra Nevada Job Corps Center (SNJCC) have been hard at work recently, helping to spruce up their community’s North Valley Regional Park.

In addition to completing coursework in their chosen vocation at the center, students actively participate in volunteer work like the park cleanup.  Other students regularly carry out volunteer work for the American Red Cross and the Food Bank of Northern Nevada.
 
SNJCC Business and Community Liaison Helyse Sina said there is a sense among her center’s students of wanting to help out in light of budget cutbacks in western Nevada cities and counties.  "A lot of these students really like doing something to give back," Sina said.

 Since July 2008, more than 80 Sierra Nevada Job Corps Center instructors and other employees have joined more than 800 of the center’s students to complete more than 4000 hours of community service projects in the region.

Over the past year, a total of more than 105,000 community service hours have been completed by employees and students of the 26 Job Corps centers Management & Training Corporation operates or partners in operating.


(Posted 7/10/09)

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