JAG Indiana students earn more than $24 million in scholarships – Seymour Tribune

The Indiana chapter of Jobs for America’s Graduates introduced Wednesday that this yr’s graduating class earned greater than $24,300,000 in scholarship cash.

Recipients included college students from 48 Indiana counties, together with Jackson County.

“The Jobs for America’s Graduates program impacts the lives of younger folks in a rare means, and I’m thrilled to see so many Hoosiers reap the advantages of receiving their highschool diplomas and incomes monetary assist for extra schooling or coaching to start their profession,” mentioned Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, who serves on JAG’s nationwide board of administrators. “JAG continues to equip Hoosiers with employable expertise and gives a street map to lifelong success.”

JAG Indiana, which is run by the Indiana Division of Workforce Growth, is a state-based nationwide nonprofit group devoted to serving to highschool college students of promise who’ve skilled difficult or traumatic life experiences obtain success by way of commencement. JAG college students obtain grownup mentoring whereas at school and one yr of follow-up counseling after commencement.

In Jackson County, JAG applications are at Brownstown Central and Seymour excessive colleges. In 2022, 22 native college students mixed to obtain $166,476 in scholarship cash.

Lately, JAG Indiana obtained the 5 of 5 Award on the thirty ninth annual Nationwide Coaching Seminar in Las Vegas, Nevada. The award acknowledged the Indiana program for exceeding 5 targets set on the nationwide degree regarding commencement charges, postsecondary schooling, job placement and different important milestones.

JAG Indiana’s achievements for the 2021-22 college yr embody:

-94% commencement price (nationwide aim is 90%)

-85% full-time employment price (nationwide aim is 80%)

-82% optimistic end result price (nationwide aim is 80%)

-69% job placement price, together with army (nationwide aim is 60%)

-39% additional schooling price (nationwide aim is 35%)

“The JAG Indiana program continues to be a nationwide chief for reinforcing instructional alternatives for Hoosier highschool college students,” DWD Director of Youth Initiatives Brianna Morse mentioned. “The outcomes our college students obtain are partially as a result of work of the devoted JAG Indiana workers who work year-round to remodel the lives of their college students out and in of the classroom by way of constructing relationships that final lengthy after commencement.”

Since 2006, greater than 40,000 college students have participated in JAG Indiana with 94% graduating from highschool.