Jobs

Jobs for Delaware Graduates (JDG) was organized in 1979 as a private, non-profit corporation designed to prepare highly at-risk high school seniors for transition from school to work. School personnel and the Delaware Private Industry Council encouraged JDG to expand the program to include students in grades 9, 10 and 11. As a result, JDG established a partnership with James H. Groves High Schools in 1989 to provide services to out-of-school youth in a classroom setting. In 1992, JDG piloted a five-year program for students in grades 9 through 12 that included a year of work placement and training after graduation. In 2005, JDG expanded once again, partnering with the Delaware Department of Labor to provide individualized services to out-of-school youth, ages 16-21 years old, from Kent and Sussex counties. In 2010, JDG established a pilot program for middle schools that provided students in grades 7 and 8 with the leadership skills to effect positive behavior, to improve academic achievement and, ultimately, to ensure each student successfully transitions to grade 9. The middle school program has now been implemented in nine schools throughout Delaware.