Christian Job Corps of Madison County Alabama Inc.

1. Help men and women in the Madison County and surrounding counties become more self-sufficient by increasing the number of graduates obtaining jobs as well as pursuing higher education or vocational training.
2. Help each participant gain knowledge that will help her spiritually and determine the course of her future.
3. Increase the enrollment in our program.

1. Provide life skills training for all students.
2. Give opportunities for students to gain work experience.
3. Prepare students for job searches.
4. Broaden relationships with temp agencies and job training programs.
5. Encourage students to move beyond their current level of education if needed for their career
path.
6. Provide Bible study.
7. Better publicize our services to the community. We also plan to utilize Board members to be
more intentional in their support by becoming community advocates and seeking
opportunities to speak on behalf of CJC.

1. We offer classes in money management to increase financial literacy and communication
skills to deal with workplace situations.
2. Our volunteer internship program allows students to experience real work situations, learn
new job skills, and make connections within the community for future employment.
3. All students are given instruction in basic Microsoft computer skills, thus preparing them
both for the job search as well as job responsibilities.
4. We provide all students instruction in creating/updating a resume, job search, and
interviewing skills in our career classes.
5. Our site coordinators and instructors encourage our students to pursue higher education
by providing access to local educational resources. We also have a GED tutoring program
which prepares our students who lack a high school diploma to take the GED exam. We
offer scholarships for taking the GED practice tests and the actual exam. We also offer
scholarships for our graduates to attend vocational training or college locally.
6. Bible study is one of the classes provided in our curriculum. Additionally, each student is
assigned a mentor who works with her one on one in Bible study and goal setting.
7. We have prioritized money in our budget to go toward advertising our services. Additionally,
we are expanding our network of partnerships with other helping agencies and service
providers to gain referrals.

1. Over 800 women have successfully completed our job readiness program.
2. We have increased the number of women served through our resource referral services, job-
readiness classes, mentoring program, continuing education classes, scholarship program,
car donation program, and career clothes closet.
3. We have successfully implemented a men's program to what was once a program specifically for women.
4. We have made changes in our GED tutoring program curriculum in response to the changes in
the GED exam and are seeing a greater number of students pass the GED. We also provided
extended GED tutoring to those students who need more time preparing for the GED.
5. In the last three years, our graduates finding jobs within a year after beginning our program
ranged from 60% - 86%.
6. We would like to see a greater percentage of our participants find jobs with a livable wage.
7. We would like more of our graduates to enroll in higher education or vocational training.
8. We would like for our organization to have more name recognition in our community so that
more people view it as a resource, thus increasing our program enrollment.