JOB CORP

Job Corps’ mission is to educate and train highly motivated young people for successful careers in the nation’s fastest-growing industries. At Frenchburg Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center, they support the Job Corps program’s mission to teach eligible young people the skills they need to become employable and independent and place them in meaningful jobs or further education and skills for independent living.

The Menifee County SNAP-ED Assistant partnered with the Frenchburg Job Corp’s Vocational Development Specialist to present seven lessons from the Healthy Choices for Every Body curriculum to twelve students. Five of the twelve participants showed 42% improvement in one or more diet quality indicators. Such as eating fruits, vegetables, red and orange vegetables, dark green vegetables, drinking less regular soda, drinking less fruit punch, fruit drinks, sweet tea, or sports drinks, and cooking dinner.