Tri County Jobs for Ohio's Graduates

1. Engage, serve, and produce positive outcomes using the JAG model for 1,000+ enrolled participants in JOG programming in Summit, Medina, Stark and Trumbull Counties.
2. 90% of JOG's in-school participants will graduate high school; 50% of JOG's out-of-school participants will attain their GED
3. 70% of youth will demonstrate competence in 37 core employment skills; 20 core skills for out-of-school population.
4. 100% of JOG program participants will receive a minimum of 12 months of intervention and follow-up services to support on-the-job success.

JOG will provide evidence-based intervention services (academic, counseling, employment readiness, leadership and career development, job and post-secondary educational placement) to 1,000+ at-risk and out of school youth, between the ages of 14 and 24 in Summit, Stark, Medina and Trumbull Counties. Our Jobs for America's Graduates model promotes graduation rates and a positive transition to career and/or post-secondary opportunities.

Opportunity gaps for each student are identified while developing their individualized service plan. The Career Specialist and student design a plan that will work to close or eliminate these gaps by securing resources. The holistic, wrap-around approach implemented in all JOG programs was designed specifically as a result of so many students having opportunity gaps that could not be resolved by employment alone. JOG has successfully been implementing the wrap-around approach for several years and has seen a difference in the level of success students can reach when social determinant barriers are removed.

Our evidenced-based program model is effective. We aim to maximize our engagement with students and stakeholders so that we may build long lasting relationships. These relationships are founded in transparency, commitment, accountability, and follow-through. We drive positive outcomes through these relationships and utilize the JAG model and competency-based curriculum. JAG’s national curriculum includes more than 85 competencies in the following categories Career Development, Job Attainment, Job Survival, Basic, Leadership and Self Development, Personal Skills, Life Survival, Work Place, and Economic Empowerment. We measure most everything we do so that we may be responsive to trends, needs and changing economies. To this end, we also realize that community collaboration is essential to success. JOG is a piece to the puzzle that can produce change and it is a part of our responsibility to identify the other pieces that can provide opportunity for our kids.

Since 1987, JOG has used JAG’s evidenced-based curriculum including 85+ employability competencies to help at-risk and out of school youth complete their education and successfully transition to employment at a livable wage or enroll post-secondary job training. We have met, or exceeded, our national standards for (1) Graduation Rate, (2) Job Placement Rate, (3) Obtained Full-Time Placement, (4) Experienced Positive Outcome Rate, and (5) Full-Time Engagement-work/college for more than 20 years.

As an affiliate of the national Jobs for America's Graduates organization, JOG uses the JAG model, and as such, has 5 national standards that JOG has met or exceeded for the past 23 years. JOG's 30-year averages for achieving the following national successes: Graduation Rate of 91.6%, Employment Rate of 64.5%, Full-time Jobs Rate of 68.8%, Full--time Engagement Rate of 84% (combination of work/college that equals full-time commitment) and a total positive outcome rate of 82.4%. All JOG programs are held to these national evidence-based standards that have been reviewed for the past 30 years.