Helping Our Community Youth:
The Job Corp program was started in 1964, and this year it celebrates not only its 50th anniversary, but also the milestone of training more than 2.7 million young people across the country. On this City Corner, Host Sarah Thompson, looks at St. Louis Job Corps and focuses on two of its programs — Advanced Career Training Program and Home Builders Institute — as well as the program’s support and encouragement of women in construction and technical trades. Sarah is joined by Jeffrey Taylor, Business Community Liaison of St. Louis Job Corps, Sophia Downs, Owner of Brighter Horizons Career Services and graduate of St. Louis Job Corps, and Nautica Allen, Current Student with St. Louis Job Corps’ Home Builders Institute.