Residential Living

 

 

 

 

Quentin N. Burdick Job Corps Center is a one of a kind job training facility! It is located in a quiet, northwest residential area of Minot, North Dakota. There are 250 residential students who live and are trained on our campus. Our residential students are provided with free linen, laundry, cleaning supplies, private lockers, and a television and entertainment lounge in each dormitory.

Although students from the local area can live off center, the vast majority of Burdick students take advantage of the modern residential facility. There's a male and female dormitory that contains suites where approximately 30 to 35 students reside, with typically four students in each room.

Burdick is unique in that it has a Solo Parent Program. The Solo Parents have their own dormitory that houses 24 solo parents, who may each have up to two children. Children should be between the ages of 6 weeks and school age. ABC Childcare Center operates a day care center attached to the Solo Parent Dormitory which allows the solo parents to just "go next door" to take their children to day care and then proceed to take advantage of the training opportunities at Burdick without worrying about the care of their children.

The Residential Program is an important aspect of the Burdick Job Corps experience. Learning to live with and get along with others is an important skill that our student employees learn. Student employees learn to work as members of a team by cleaning their dorm room and their dormitory before they begin the training day.

A typical student day at Burdick begins at 6:00 am. Student employees are required to be up, have their bed made, and off to breakfast by about 6:30 am. The training day begins at 8:00 am and ends at 4:00 pm. Typically, student employees are in bed by 10:30 pm.

The responsibilities learned at Burdick are all part of our 24/7 training philosophy. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, we have high expectations for our student employees. That's why we say:

"Give Us a Year, We'll Give You a Lifetime!"