It's for 16-24 year olds, and is a cumulative thing that begins with GED or diploma training, culminating in testing to get one of those and then either more training if you fail, or moving on if you pass. Bob has chosen diploma, which made me proud because it's harder and takes longer. Next you pick a course area for job training. There are things like business administration, construction, all kinds of generalized areas, and Bob is picking computer...repair or programming? I can't recall right now, but either way that is the beginning and he'd like to move on to eventually helping to design/write gaming software...you can't actually get a college degree at JobCorps, though you can transfer some of the credits you get there, but they do job placement at the end, which is really helpful, and once you've finished the program you also get $1300 or something like that? The idea being that you're moving out of the dorms and will need a lump sum to get into an apartment with a roommate or something (Bob lives with us, still, but he still gets the money upon completion).
There are a lot of dropouts who've wound up in prison and then got out, there, and people who were hemming and hawing about the military, but also a ton of people like Bob who just have/had no direction at all and were kind of floating along. They offer a lot of short term rewards and incentives that seem almost insulting to me...because I live in the real adult world. Like $25 every other week and going to the movies on Friday. But for him and most of the other people there, it's significant and a reason to try. Bob's not used to having any spending money of his own in his pocket.
My favorite part about it is that they are really involved with the students - there are tons of counseling sessions and one on one talking with the staff all the time - and VERY strict rules. You can't beat somebody up, or refuse to do an assignment, and expect to come back the next day. It's government run and this one is actually on our old air force base (which is no longer really operating as a base).
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There are a lot of dropouts who've wound up in prison and then got out, there, and people who were hemming and hawing about the military, but also a ton of people like Bob who just have/had no direction at all and were kind of floating along. They offer a lot of short term rewards and incentives that seem almost insulting to me...because I live in the real adult world. Like $25 every other week and going to the movies on Friday. But for him and most of the other people there, it's significant and a reason to try. Bob's not used to having any spending money of his own in his pocket.
My favorite part about it is that they are really involved with the students - there are tons of counseling sessions and one on one talking with the staff all the time - and VERY strict rules. You can't beat somebody up, or refuse to do an assignment, and expect to come back the next day. It's government run and this one is actually on our old air force base (which is no longer really operating as a base).