Job Corps is a no-cost education and career technical training program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor that helps young people ages 16 through 24 improve the quality of their lives through career technical and academic training. Charleston Job Corps Center supports the Job Corps program’s mission of teaching eligible young people the skills they need to become employable and independent and placing them in meaningful jobs or further education.
Charleston Job Corps Center opened in June 1965 as an all-female center at the old Kanawha Hotel on Summers Street in Charleston, West Virginia. In 1976, their center became a coeducational facility. In 1997, their center moved to a mountaintop campus overlooking the city of Charleston. The Charleston Job Corps Center is overseen by the Philadelphia Regional Office of Job Corps and is operated by Horizons Youth Services. Our Center Director is Curtis Price.
The Partnership of African American Churches (PAAC) is a 501 (c) 3 collaborative, non-profit, faith based community development corporation, based in Charleston, WV.
While PAAC serves all communities, it intentionally targets African American communities in West Virginia. The PAAC is a specific initiative driven organization focusing on community and individual well-being which involves both policy change and programmatic implementation.
PAAC has recognized the need and is presently advancing as an intermediary resource agent to assist community grassroots projects in capacity building and securing support for various programmatic activities. This support is currently being provided to four communities in three counties and will ultimately expand to thirteen counties within West Virginia.