GARY JOB CORPS
Gary Job Corps often hosts a quarterly community meeting to thank its local partners as well as inform them about what is going on at the center. GJC Center Director Norman Turner discussed his recent trip to Washington D.C. for the Job Corps Association Conference as well as the center’s goal of markedly increasing enrollment and the ways in which they planned to achieve that.
Turner said the trip to the nation’s capital was an opportunity to inform elected officials of all the programs and achievements occurring at the center, so that they might keep those in mind when making decisions that could impact the funding that it receives, as it is a federally funded program. “We left them with packets of information about … the local impact of the Gary Job Corps Center to this area as a whole, with having 500 plus staff [and being] contracted to have 1,400 students,” Turner said. “Those are a lot of human beings that pour into our local [community] and then even outside of this area. So my goal during that meeting was just to remind them of the impact that the Gary Job Corps Center has for this area and the areas outside.”
