MTC Honors Our Veterans

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Watch as some of your co-workers, who are also U.S. veterans, help us celebrate Veterans Day 2021. Thank you for your service!

A Passion for Automotive Repair Plus Advanced Job Corps Training Equals Success

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Clearfield Job Corps in Utah is one of the leading Toyota T-TEN sites in the country. T-TEN stands for Technician Training & Education Network. It’s an industry-leading program that develops and places thousands of factory-certified technicians in challenging, rewarding, and well-paid positions in more than 1,400 Toyota and Lexus dealerships across the country. Enter Aaron … Continued

Lives Are Being Changed at the Otero County Prison Facility…See Why

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Programming and education are key to success in prison; and so is the culture. Residents at the Otero County Prison Facility talk about their experiences in prison and what’s helping them change their lives.   How has the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) program prepared you for release? “Just having the course available to us … Continued

A Great Partnership in Chicago Helps Prepare Young People for Success

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A power packed partnership at the Paul Simon Chicago Job Corps Center. “It’s a win-win because what you really have is two organizations trying to place the young people into opportunities that will benefit them for the rest of their lives.” Ronald Hearns is with an organization that subcontracts with Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership. What … Continued

Clearfield Job Corps Graduate Shares Story of Personal Success

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Job Corps continues to change the lives of young people by providing them with the job and life skills they need to succeed. Meet Marcus Rodgers. He first attended the North Texas Job Corps Center where he studied commercial painting. Marcus always wanted to work in the auto body collision industry; something about making a … Continued

Part III: MTC Otero County Facilities Prove to Be Valuable Community Leaders

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In Part III of our look at the value the MTC Otero County facilities bring to their local community, it’s first thing in the morning, and the Chaparral leg of the Law Enforcement Torch Run of New Mexico is off. Providing needed funds for the Special Olympics program, the Otero County facilities are again leading … Continued

Part II: MTC Otero County Facilities Prove to Be Valuable Community Leaders

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In Part II of our look at the value the MTC Otero County facilities bring to their local community, we take you to a recent backpack giveaway event. “Today we have a partnership going on,” says Travis Dempsey, superintendent of the Gadsden Independent School District, “helping our kids get started back to school. We all … Continued

Green Thumbs at Corporate Office Support Local Families in Need of Food

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It began with 100 small tomato plants. Here you see Scott Marquardt, president of MTC, and other staff roll up their sleeves to get the MTC corporate garden planted in early summer. A few months later and the harvest is underway. “It felt wonderful,” says MTC’s Dale Bradshaw, “to be a part of something like … Continued

Job Corps Alumna Returns to the Program That Changed Her Life

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Jaime Miyake recently celebrated her seventh year anniversary as a valued employee at the Hawaii Job Corps Center where she serves as the buyer. Twenty-eight years ago, Jaime was a struggling youth, growing up in a shanty household being raised by a single mother in Kalihi. Her mother had to wok several jobs to support … Continued