Job Corps Center in Nampa (Hope: home, employment, landscaping)

[oldhippie]

Does anyone have any knowledgeof or experience with the Job Corps center in Nampa? My son is thinking about signing up and going to that center. What is the area like where the center is located? Any info would be helpful.

Thanks

[Green Pieces]

Truthfully, I don't know about the specific Job Corps in Nampa. However: in my experience, Jobs Corps in general is full of vagrants, people right out of jail, drug addicts, migrant workers, etc.

I have never seen Jobs Corps provide training for anything above the lowest labor positions, and the employers that hire from job corps typically are looking for unskilled cheap labor. Not much room for advancement.

My suggestion, put together a resume and list all skills, then apply at some of the temp. services - or seek an apprenticeship with a company that intrerests him.

[TOPGUN]

Originally Posted by oldhippie

Does anyone have any knowledgeof or experience with the Job Corps center in Nampa? My son is thinking about signing up and going to that center. What is the area like where the center is located? Any info would be helpful.

Thanks

Look into the California Conservation Corps for him. I did that for a few years, best "job" I ever had. They have some great programs, fire centers too.

TopGun

[fabforever]

The center is located in a nice area on top of a hill in front of a golf course, it is very green and pretty up there. There is not much around it and it is located next to the Nampa juvenile corrections center and hospital. Down the road one way you will find a new Wal-Mart, the Idaho center and several car dealers, the other way you will run into the Nampa train tracks (not the nicest area of Nampa). I don't know much about the center, but I am a runner and I used to run that way quite often and see the kids outside making out on the grass. I am guessing that happened during break or something, and I am guessing it wasn't allowed since they were always hidden behind a bush or something... I also saw some of their summer activities outdoors and it didn't look too bad. However I don't know much about the program, you might want to visit the place and see it for yourself before enrolling your son. Also, look into BSU's hands on program, they have training for young people in several fields, I hear the cooking program is excellent and their car repair program is quite good also. I am not sure of the requirements to join, but some of my students a few years ago where thinking of entering these programs. Apparently the requisites were much lower than a normal 4 year degree and the employment prospects were fairly good.

[Summer1]

Originally Posted by Green Pieces

Truthfully, I don't know about the specific Job Corps in Nampa. However: in my experience, Jobs Corps in general is full of vagrants, people right out of jail, drug addicts, migrant workers, etc.

I have never seen Jobs Corps provide training for anything above the lowest labor positions, and the employers that hire from job corps typically are looking for unskilled cheap labor. Not much room for advancement.

My suggestion, put together a resume and list all skills, then apply at some of the temp. services - or seek an apprenticeship with a company that intrerests him.

This is going towards 'Green Pieces'. I went to Centennial Job Corps. No, I am not a vagrant, nor have I ever been in jail, and my only addiction is coffee. However, my parents were farm workers. They worked hard to get what they now have, which is a lot by anyone's standards. And yes, they were born and raised in here in the United States. Two weeks after I completed the program, I was hired by a lucrative business and am now making a VERY comfortable living as a partner. I also married a Job Corps graduate and with his carpentry skills and my business knowledge (of which some I learned at Job Corps), he now owns his own successful construction company. So the next time you want to post something as ignorant as that comment, you might want to do a little research into the subject. And it actually is a nice facility.

[youngin]

i keep gettin mixed repsonses from people on job corps itself and of course the area of nampa idaho. i am trying to make and ecucated decision here not only that i am trying to make a step to better my life in that manner (and no like the others i read said i am no vagrant,criminal or illegal) i am just a confused kid trying to find a start to my LIFE and im wondering if the centenial program in nampa would be a good place to start

[robotfood1]

It would be a great place to start.

Go for it!

[SHAWNDEL]

[quote=oldhippie;784868]Does anyone have any knowledgeof or experience with the Job Corps center in Nampa? My son is thinking about signing up and going to that center. What is the area like where the center is located? Any info would be helpful.

Thanks[/QUOTE hello I am a past student of nampa job corps it is a wonderfull program .I highly recommend it .if your sons intention is to play around it wont work for him but if he really wants to make something of his self and work hard this i a great oppurtunity. I hear so much negative comments but job corps was the best thing that ever happened to me .I have a great job with great pay .I own my own home and have a great family and I honestly cant say my life would have turned out as well as it has if I wouldnt have gone there. thank you so much and good luck with your son

[SHAWNDEL]

Job Corps Is The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me .i Married A Job Corps Graduate Living Comfortable As Well .neither One Of Us Have Criminal Back Grounds Either .we Both Work For Reputible Companies .please Stop Putting Down The Center You Are Taking The Hopes Away From People That Really Need This Program . Positive Feed Back Is Important Not Only For Them But For Our Society.mabe You Should Go Take A Tour And Find Out What The Campus Is All About .dont Get Me Wrong Some People Go There For The Wrong Reasons And Some Go For The Right Reasons .its All What We Want To Make Out Of Life Im Sorry You Have Such A Negative Feed Back Good Luck To You.thank You

[Vinyard Meadows]

The CCC sounds great. It was established during the depression of the 1930s and has interesting things to do and learn. Job Corps however, is far different.

Some JC graduates go straight from the Nampa campus to the Nampa homeless shelter. They may have enjoyed JC, but I met one young lady with obvious mental disabilities that had been councelled at Job Corps to be a Secretary. A Secretary? Secretaries have to multi-task and give a competant appearance. they juggle numerous projects. This young lady could not compete. She went from Job Corps to the shelter. Nothing in between. No offers for work. Nice young lady, but lacking basic office skills. She couldn't operate a phone! Couldn't work with a com****r, though she'd been told that she could... at Job Corps. Her counselor may have taken away a comfortable life for her by sending her off in the wrong direction. She'd do fine at any number at other professions. Mentally disabled people like her CAN do well in the workplace. Productive and content. But she'd been told to be a Secretary.

There should be statistics for where these graduates wind up. If objective stats are available, heed them.

I might send someone to learn landscaping and a few other departments, but the clerical department can't possibly be run by competant folk if she graduated from that program.