WHAT IS JOBS FOR CINCINNATI GRADUTES?

• Jobs for Cincinnati Graduates (JCG) is a non-profit organization, created in 1982 by the Cincinnati Business Community.
• JCG provides comprehensive school-to-career job readiness programs for high school students with barriers to success.
• Our vision is to lead every JCG student to graduation, a successful career, and life-long learning.

WHO ARE JCG STUDENTS?

• They are youth identified by their school as likely to dropout, and needing additional support to make a successful transition from high school to adulthood.
• Or, they are youth who have dropped out of high school and want to re-enter the educational system through non-traditional educational programs.

HOW ARE YOUTH ELIGIBLE FOR THE JCG PROGRAM?

• Youth must be between the ages of 14 and 21, and face barriers to success. They must attend one of the JCG partner schools or be a high school dropout.
• Barriers include: low income, failing a prior grade, failing to pass Ohio Graduation Test, absenteeism and/or suspensions, single parent family, low income family, prior court involvement due to neglect/abuse or delinquency, pregnancy, or being a teen parent.
• A student must have three barriers to be accepted into a JCG program.
• Our 2009-10 Education Partners include: Aiken College and Career High School, Mt. Healthy High School,  Oyler On-Line Plus,  Purcell Marian, R.A. Taft Information Technology, Western Hills Engineering High School, Winton Woods, and Woodward Career Technical.

WHAT DOES JCG DO FOR ITS STUDENTS?

• JCG provides students with basic life skills, job attainment skills, and job maintenance skills.
• JCG helps students identify skills, interests and achievable career plans by using job shadowing, internet research, part-time jobs, community service projects, skills competitions, and service learning.
• JCG assists students with the Ohio Graduation Test, tutoring and developing plans to ensure sufficient credits to graduate.
• JCG follows each student for one year after graduation to assist in overcoming any barriers that might impede their continued success.

HOW MANY STUDENTS DOES JCG SERVE ANNUALLY?

• JCG provides programming to over 460 youth each year and follow-up services to 200 High School graduates.

HOW DOES JCG BENEFIT THE COMMUNITY?

• By increasing the High School graduation rate;
• By preparing High School students to enter the workforce,
• By preparing youth to become productive members of our community,
• By decreasing juvenile crime and delinquency, and
• By increasing the number of people working and contributing to society.

HOW IS JCG ADMINISTERED AND FUNDED?

• JCG Career Specialists are assigned to partner schools in Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
• Management staff administers JCG from our office in Roselawn.
• JCG Projected Annual Operating Budget is $1.5M in FY2009-10.
• JCG is funded by the State of Ohio, Workforce Investment Act (WIA) contracts, schools and through the generosity of local foundations, corporations and individuals.
• JCG is affiliated with Jobs for Ohio Graduates (JOG) and Jobs for Americas Graduates (JAG).

JCG 2008-09 PERFORMANCE OUTCOMES

• 95% of our youth, who were in 9th-11th grade in May 2008, returned to high school for the 2008-09 schoolyear.
• 90% of our youth graduated high school.
• 52% of our youth obtained post-secondary college or training, a total that has increased 25% in the last five years.
• 89% of our youth who have transitioned from high school to college in the fall of 2007 successfully completed their first year of college and returned for their second year.

 WHICH SCHOOLS USE JCG?

• Aiken College & Career High School
• Mt. Healthy High School
• Oyler On-Line Plus High School
• Purcell Marian High School
• R.A. Taft Information Technology High School
• Western Hills Engineering High School
• Winton Woods High School
• Woodward Career Technical School

JCG is reaching out to the community to increase support, and identify new support, in order to sustain this valuable program. 

If you would like more information on JCG, or would like to learn how you can help JCG ensure academic and career succes for its students, please contact:  Gretchen Finniff, Development Director, at (513) 631-4400, or gfinniff@jcgemail.org.