IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:

Pam Black

(513) 631-4400, ext. 15

CINCINNATI, OH (June 19, 2006) –Jobs for Cincinnati Graduates (JCG), a school-to career transition program focused on helping at-risk Cincinnati youth graduate from high school, announced today its’ performance outcomes for the class of 2005.  For three consecutive years, JCG has exceeded the Jobs for America’s Graduates national standards (see chart below). JCG works and we have the numbers to prove it!

Performance Outcome	JAG Standard	JCG Outcome for 2004; graduating class of 2003	JCG Outcome for 2005; graduating class of 2004	JCG Outcome for 2006; graduating class of 2005
Graduation Rate	90%	94%	92%	95%
Positive Outcomes	80%	94%	90%	91%
Full-Time Placements	80%	82%	86%	91%
Total Jobs	60%	66%	70%	77%
Full-Time Jobs	60%	62%	66%	75%

Jobs for Cincinnati Graduates is part of Jobs for Ohio’s Graduates, a statewide program that helps youth successfully transition from school to career upon graduation. Youth enter the program as early as 9th grade, but no later than the beginning of their senior year.  The program includes a year of follow-up after high school; therefore a youth is engaged with JCG from two to five years. Its mission is to assist students with barriers to success, to graduate from high school, and thereafter find and keep quality jobs and enter post-secondary education or training. Launched over two decades ago, JCG and JOG are accredited by Jobs for America's Graduates. JCG and JOG are comprehensive, performance driven strategies for shifting positively the disturbing societal statistics regarding rates of dropout, graduation, and transition from high school to the private sector labor force.