Jobs for Delaware Graduates helps students succceed

In Delaware and nationally, many students have fallen off the grid amid the pandemic.

However, Jobs for Delaware Graduates, the local Jobs for America's Graduates affiliate, kept its students engaged during this year of unprecedented disruption, with a school return rate of 96 percent. The JDG Class of 2020 had an astounding 88 percent graduation rate last year, despite the pandemic. 

JAG was founded 40 years ago to address the inequalities too many of America’s young adults experience, which can limit their opportunities and prevent them from reaching their full potential. JAG helps the nation’s most vulnerable young people overcome significant academic, economic, and emotional challenges to succeed in school programs, out-of-school programs, jobs, and life.

JAG specialists continue to show that the model is needed now more than ever to keep students engaged, learning, securing jobs, and making good choices.

Jobs for Delaware Graduates was designed in 1978 by five working groups in Delaware, drawn from business, educational, workforce, labor union and community leadership. The purpose of the organization was to simultaneously address Delaware’s unemployment and dropout rates.

Together, the public and private-sector leaders of the state developed the model of Jobs for Delaware Graduates.

JDG’s mission is to enable students to achieve academic, career, personal and social success. More than 60,000 young people have participated in JDG programs since its inception, and more than 250 local employers rely on Jobs for Delaware Graduates for producing enthusiastic, well-prepared and effective employees.

To learn more, go to jobsdegrads.org.