Collbran Job Corps — Local services in Collbran

I came into Collbran Job Corps back in 2012 through 2014. While in Collbran Job Corps I learned a lot about myself as being my own man and taking responsibility over what Collbran Job Corps had to offer to me. I came in with my high school diploma, I earned and worked hard for my leadership positions just before I got out. I will forever be a MeadowBrook student! Raptors all the way! While my time in Collbran Job Corps, I earned vocational leader in two different trades. Facilities Maintenance and Cement Masonry. Other leadership positions I earned and held were Top 5 peer counselor, Top 7 Recreation, Dorm Representative, and the Gold Coat. I worked for the wild land firefighter program as well. You give what you put out while attending at Collbran job corps. For future students coming in, I have a challenge for you and words of wisdoms. When you come in as a student, take as much opportunities you can to embrace what Collbran Job Corps has to offer to you. Focus on the present and future instead of the past. Learn from faculties and instructors as much as you can, and also teach them a little bit about yourself on how you can incorporate your leadership skills and who you are as a person. Train, mentor, and lead your peers into taking the initiative of developing them into one day being leaders themselves and upholding the tradition and legacy towards incoming students. Collbran job corps was meant to develop your self into a leader, education, work ethic abilities, to challenge yourself to overcome what life has to throw at you and most importantly to set you up for success. Remember, you take what you give and get while you are in this program. You decide whether you want to be a leader or a follower, the choice is yours. One last thing, ask yourself why you are here and thoroughly think about it. Why did you attend Collbran Job Corps? Leave a comment/ reply. I really would like to know why and what you intend to put forth to while in this amazing program. Thank you!

Very Respectfully,

SGT...

This place has many rules and is a student ran center in the sense that every student here is expected to care about the rules and be a positive influence on their peers. We have leadership opportunities for everything you can possibly think of. We offer many certifications and job training from top instructors as well as the chance to get a High School diploma, GED and a driver's license all paid for by the tax payers. Our students live on center and have thier meals provided for them. The best part is we get paid weekly allowance every two weeks on top of all the opportunities to make yourself a productive member of society. This place is not for everyone. This place is only for those who want to take the opportunities offered here to succeed and are willing to abide by it's rules and respect the staff and students. I have been at this center for 1 year and 3 months and have seen many people come and go for negative and positive reasons. I have recently graduated with a High School diploma and a GED as well as over 10 industry certifications offered in Office Administration Technology. Since coming here, I have changed myself in more ways than I can can possibly count. If there is one thing that I this place has taught me it is, "successful people do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do." I have recently browsed through the comments and some were negative and some were positive but one commentor noted that there are some rules here that people think are strange. These rules are here to better us as people. If you can deal with these rules, rise up to the standards we have in place and complete this program as I did, there would be little to no reason why you could not succeed in a job setting. The hardest part about this center is leaving because throughout your stay here, you make close friends here that you would consider family. So out of a 5 star rating I rate this a 10. All praise goes to God for this center and what it...

Beautiful Scenery. Very secluded to allow students to focus on themselves. The dorms are well managed by student leaders who earn their way up to their positions. Two staff per dorm. 4 dorms; 1 female and 3 male. Well run and includes vocational training 5 days a week from 8 am to 4 pm. Weekends are very lax and allow students to rest and recuperate before starting the next week in vocational training and/or educational teaching. Would recommend if you still need help with figuring out what you want to do for your life.

The main reason why I give it a three is because the Center is outdated. I understand that the funding the Center gets from DOL and DOA is not sufficient. Coming from a student who lives 24/7 there, everything could be better. Trades could get better tools and better machines. But DOL and DOA are still living in the 90's. Some things that are gang related here are not related to gangs at all within the last half decade. Whenever we go to Junction for a trip, we don't get any negative looks because of the colors we wear. We get looks because of how ridiculous we look climbing out of a white bus looking like we are ready to do some mandatory community service.

Considering that some staff are probably going to see this, I'm not dissing the Center in any way. There are rules that need to be put in and rules that need to be taken out in order to account for new cultural norms within our society. Wearing a belt more than six inches hanging out of the front isn't gang related. It looks stupid, not to mention that was "gang related" in the fifties when the Mafia would recruit in public areas. A Mafia member would overhang his belt to show he was recruiting. It's not the fifties anymore, and we're not living in the age of the Mafia. Many gangs nowadays stay in their own area and only worry about trespassers and people who look like a threat or a rival. The center needs to adapt...