JOB CORPS is a federal government program for youth, administered by the U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration.
Job Corps is a free education and training program that helps young men and women prepare for employment, learn job skills, earn a GED or high school diploma and find a good job.
Students will live on a center campus, study and hang out with a lot of different young people from all different places...and even develop lifelong friendships. Students are between the ages of 16 – 24.
There are 18 Job Corps Centers in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio and Wisconsin, known as the Chicago region. To learn more go to http://chicagoregion.jobcorps.gov/aboutjc/about.htm
Barbara Seales
Extension Educator, Career and Workforce Preparedness
Cook County Unit
8751 South Greenwood
Suites 112-122
Chicago, IL 60619
Phone: 773-768-7779 x110 FAX: 773-768-4818 sealesba@uiuc.edu
