It’s that time again: back-to-school season! We are very excited to get this school year underway, meet our new JOG students, as well as get back into class with our existing enrollees. This school year we are excited to be able to bring the Tri-County Jobs for Ohio’s Graduates (JOG) program to Ashland County!

Tri-County Jobs for Ohio’s Graduates (JOG) just wrapped up our first-ever golf outing! It took place on Monday, August 21st at Bunker Hill Golf Course. We wouldn’t have been able to make it as successful as it was without the help of our amazing sponsors and partners.

Tri-County Jobs for Ohio’s Graduates (JOG) is lucky to have staff that take our mission to heart and teach it to our students. Across all of the counties we work in, our staff helps young people across Ohio to achieve their academic and career goals. One of these staff members is Stow’s very own JK LeSeure.

Our work being done throughout Tri-County Jobs for Ohio’s Graduates (JOG) couldn’t be done without having models to rely on to give the same high level of care to all of our JOG students. The model that we follow is the JAG Model through Jobs for America’s Graduates. This model gives us the opportunity to approach our work in school and out of school with the same level of quality that our students, both new and existing, expect during their time with the JOG program.

If you have worked alongside Tri-County Jobs for Ohio’s Graduates (JOG) at any time, you will know that we love talking about our students. But, our love doesn’t stop there. We also are massively thankful to our employers and partners that work with us throughout the year. There are a number of ways that our employers do and can go above and beyond for our students.

Students at Tri-County Jobs for Ohio’s Graduates (JOG) come from a plethora of backgrounds. In the case of Asebel, she came to us looking to obtain her GED while also being a mother. These challenges are something that our Career Specialists work on to help accommodate our students so they can gain their GED while also being able to still put their families first.

Tri-County Jobs for Ohio’s Graduates (JOG) works hard every day to help connect tomorrow’s workforce with what they need to achieve their own successes. This comes through both academic and career efforts. One individual who has been involved in all facets of JOG is Rachael Jolly-Kosakowski.

Tri-County Jobs for Ohio’s Graduates (JOG) is lucky to have a staff of such caring adults who put the needs of our youth first. Not every young person enrolled in our program comes from a stable home life, and external factors like that play into how our students are able to learn and grow. JOG’s In-School Career Specialists work with students to address these factors, offering extended services and support that go above and beyond the standard curriculum.

Tri-County Jobs for Ohio’s Graduates (JOG) is proud to organize a plethora of events to our JOG family and to our community! These events include conferences to help our participants grow both as people and professionally, as well as community engagement activities that allow us to connect with our closest supporters. This article will run through our events (both ongoing and recently previous) and briefly explain them.

Sometimes the young people we work with come to us looking for one thing and walk away with something much more valuable. That is exactly the case for Zeke. He came to us at Tri-County Jobs for Ohio’s Graduates (JOG) looking to see how to get connected to SNAP benefits through Job and Family Services, but once he met with the staff at JOG’s Medina County office everything changed.

Tri-County Jobs for Ohio’s Graduates (JOG) works hard every day to help connect tomorrow’s workforce with what they need to achieve their own successes. This comes through both academic and career efforts. One individual who has been involved in all facets of JOG is Rachael Jolly-Kosakowski.

Since our inception in 1987, Tri-County Jobs for Ohio’s Graduates (JOG) has worked as an affiliate of, and close partner to, Jobs for America’s Graduates (JAG). Though we function independently as our own organization, we work with JAG to gain a foundation for how we can achieve our own success here in Ohio, making sure that we meet (or exceed) their criteria for success.

Jobs for Ohio’s Graduates (JOG) has been striving to put words to action since our inception. We work to ensure our students are academically successful as well as career-wise. Not everyone is able to jump straight into the fields they want to be in just out of their high school education. Our subsidized work program is one way the JOG program is able to put “our money where our mouth is.

We are lucky to have such great employment partners who want to see at Jobs for Ohio’s Graduates’ (JOG) students put in a position to succeed. From learning skills in the trades to developing interpersonal skills, these companies provide valuable professional development to our kids as part of the JAG Model, setting them up for success in their future careers. TimkenSteel is a great example of an employment partner who works with us in a variety of ways, including sponsoring, providing board representation and event speakers, and sharing information on metal-working and other trades with our youth.

Here at Tri-County Jobs for Ohio’s Graduates (JOG), our mission is to help youth with multiple barriers to success complete their education and successfully transition to employment at a livable wage or post-secondary job training. This mission is achieved by having caring Career Specialists who use trauma-informed care to help students feel heard, engaged and confident to complete requirements for their High School education or securing employment. Career Specialist Heidi Phillips has shown how this approach is effective through her interactions with her students, including Alyssia.

Since the beginning, Tri-County Jobs for Ohio’s Graduates (JOG) has worked hard to provide needed academic and career services to students in our local partner schools, but the JOG model is not limited to just those standard education tenants. Our specialists go above and beyond to help their students feel welcomed, supported, and engaged.