DOL-09/08/07-1B: Job Corps

Improve educational achievements of Job Corps students, and increase participation of Job Corps graduates in employment and education.

Other Information:

Strategies: * Provide academic and vocational training as well as social education and other support services, such as housing and transportation. * Incorporate the best research and practices of business, education, labor, and other partners for a career-focused, alternative education pipeline for disadvantaged youth. * Implement new data validation procedures and report performance using common job training performance measures. * Implement integrated competency-based career and academic training. * Continue to examine the program’s physical assets to determine whether they are being fully utilized. * Improve outreach and recruitment services and will continue to examine ways to reduce the share of students who drop out of the program.

Stakeholder(s):

• Office of Job Corps: The Office of Job Corps provides intensive training to more than 60,000 economically disadvantaged youth ages 16 through 24 through 122 primarily residential centers nationwide.


• Economically Disadvantaged Youth: Ages 16 through 24
  •  (Performer, Beneficiary)


• Job Corps Students
  •  (Beneficiary, Performer)


• Job Corps Graduates
  •  (Performer, Beneficiary)

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