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Job Corps Works: Meeting the Needs for a Skilled Workforce
This report highlights and supports the Job Corps program. Through this paper, the reader will gain insight about some of the prominent challenges facing the very effective Job Corps program. Finally, the paper provides recommendations for investments that will help maximize program effectiveness with students, who have typically dropped out of our traditional educational system, and improve program outcomes.

Job Corps: Needed Now More Than Ever
This paper provides compelling information on why Job Corps is the training and education program that youth across America need to succeed. America’s economic success is dependent on typical Job Corps students, aged 16 to 24, and the economically disadvantaged, since they are the workforce needed to fill skilled jobs being left vacant. We need more production out of those students who are dropping out of school.

Meeting America’s Healthcare Employment Needs: The Job Corps/Community College Solution
As part of the President’s High Growth Job Training initiative, MTC was provided a $1.5 million grant to address Healthcare industry needs. Out of the 177 students enrolled in college as part of the program, 33 student participants (over 18%) successfully completed training during the grant time period, including 14 students who received industry-recognized college/career technical training certificates. A total of 45 students have entered employment in a healthcare field and nine completed AAS degrees with 65 still enrolled through 2006. This is the final performance report submitted to the DOL describing the lessons learned, outcomes and recommendations.

Partnerships Between Job Corps and Community Colleges: A Guide
With the increasing importance on partnerships in education and training the MTC Institute has created a guide on how to establish and maintain partnerships between Job Corps centers and Community Colleges.

Value of Education
Today's workplace pays a premium for education-more skills and training correlate with higher earnings and better positions. The majority of job growth will take place in fields requiring a high school degree as well as further training and technical/vocational certification.

Enhancing Partnerships Between Job Corps and Community Colleges
The MTC Institute demonstrates the need for partnerships between Job Corps and community colleges, and provides several examples of current and possible partnerships.

Rehabilitation Through Education: Correctional Educators
There is a growing public awareness of the need for cost-effective ways to reduce recidivism. Low offender educational attainment and work force changes in skill requirements amplify inmates’ difficulties in finding gainful employment once released. Education is a cost-effective means to reduce recidivism. Success requires maintaining trained and dedicated teaching professionals. This report examines correctional education, teacher attrition, and strategies to improve teacher retention.

The Challenge of Teaching (and Learning) in Prison
Correctional institutions are increasingly held to higher quality standards as the public grows more aware of the effect correctional programming can have on the number of inmates returning to prison. While effective in-prison programs can reduce recidivism by 25-30%, the correctional system as a whole is not designed to maximize rehabilitation through education. This report explores some of the hurdles faced by correctional management and educators with regard to programs, including an eclectic mix of students, low inmate motivation, a traditional process focus, limited resources, and the institutional culture, and presents new ways of managing them.

Career and Technical Education Certificates
Today's labor market places greater value on individuals with employer-recognized vocational certificates. Thus, the formal vocational training leading to certification must be aligned with the needs of industries and employers.

Home Away From Home
Home Away From Home focuses on the residential side of training at Job Corps Centers. This report discusses how to organize group life programs so as to target objectives around socialization and workplace readiness skills. Given the current attractive labor market, many students are lured from programs before completion. Therefore, we also examine the central role of residential advisors and their requisite training.

The Critical Role of Residential Life in Student Retention
This presentation provides an overview of the above report Home Away From Home - presented July 2003

Teaching Those Who Learn Differently
As academic standards and achievement increase around the nation, educators are confronted with the challenge of effectively teaching all students. Some students learn differently, but when their difficulties are recognized and appropriately addressed, they can excel. This Data Spotlight examines educational and learning differently trends and the research-proven methods for instructing these students.

Removing Barriers: Strategies and Suggestions For Teaching Those Who Learn Differently
Mounting research shows how we can effectively teach students with various learning differences, including those in Job Corps and correctional classrooms. This report outlines the elements of instruction and the classroom environment proven most effective with struggling students.

Removing Learning Barriers
This presentation provides an overview of the above report Removing Learning Barriers - Job Corps Alpha Leadership Conference July 2003 - presented July 2003

The Challenge of Teaching (and Learning) in Prison
Correctional institutions are increasingly held to higher quality standards as the public grows more aware of the effect correctional programming can have on the number of inmates returning to prison. While effective in-prison programs can reduce recidivism by 25-30%, the correctional system as a whole is not designed to maximize rehabilitation through education. This report explores some of the hurdles faced by correctional management and educators with regard to programs, including an eclectic mix of students, low inmate motivation, a traditional process focus, limited resources, and the institutional culture, and presents new ways of managing them.

Career and Technical Education Certificates
Today's labor market places greater value on individuals with employer-recognized vocational certificates. Thus, the formal vocational training leading to certification must be aligned with the needs of industries and employers.

Road Map to Retention
This Data Spotlight examines the problem of student dropout from school providing a model for better retention of trainees in the Job Corps setting.

Student Dropout and Completion
Student dropout and completion rates are key gauges of the success of an educational system. This Data Spotlight examines the demographics of dropouts and completers within the traditional education system as well as job training programs.

Value of Education
Today's workplace pays a premium for education-more skills and training correlate with higher earnings and better positions. The majority of job growth will take place in fields requiring a high school degree as well as further training and technical/vocational certification.

Job Corps Scholarship Benefit
This poster shows the dollar scholarship value of what the Job Corps Program offers our youth.

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