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Young women and men enroll in Job Corps to achieve stronger academic, vocational and life skills. Our students want to be with other young adults, like them, who are striving to succeed. Job Corps offers you all that and much more:

• Free housing and meals
• Free "go at your own pace" vocational and academic training
• An opportunity to earn a GED and/or High School Diploma
• A choice of over 30 vocational trades
• Hands-on vocational training in the trade you choose
• Career transition support (help with resume writing, the interviewing process, finding a job, a place to live, transportation, childcare, etc.)
• A modest clothing allowance.
• A modest living allowance
• Basic medical and dental care
• Basic computer skills
• Recreational trips and activities
• Driver's education
• Social and Life Skills training
• Leadership training
• Counseling & Support groups
• Limited English Proficiency (LEP) classes
• Connections to college programs and/or the military

Eligibility Requirements

• Age 16 to 24 at time of enrollment
• U.S. Citizen or legal resident
• Meet low-income requirements
• Sign an agreement to support the Zero Tolerance Drugs or Violence Policy
• Ready, willing and able to participate in an educational environment

A Supportive Environment

Northwest Job Corps includes 11 residential Job Corps Center campuses and one non-residential training center within the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska. This means that most NW Job Corps students live on campus in a dormitory with one or more roommates. Trainees who live near a Job Corps Center sometimes choose to live at home and commute to center every day as non-residential students. Although each of the NW Job Corps Centers is unique, each campus has everything you need including classrooms, vocational shops and offices, a cafeteria and recreational facilities. Our goal is to provide a safe, comfortable home away from home.

When you first arrive at a Job Corps Center campus, and throughout your time in the program, staff will work closely with you to discuss your individual needs. You will work together with staff to set goals and to overcome any barriers that challenge your success. You'll create an individual plan for what you want to achieve while in the Job Corps program. On a typical day, you'll get up early. Everyone helps to keep the dorm neat and clean. After breakfast, you'll either be in academic classes or in vocational training. In your free time in the evenings and on weekends, you can hang out with new friends, participate in clubs, do volunteer work, and participate in other cultural, recreational and educational activities on or off campus.

Training is open entry and open exit and can be up to two years. Most students complete their training in eight months. Job Corps provides career support and transitional assistance for up to 12 months after you graduate.

Now, Take the First Step

Call us! We'll send additional information and direct you to an admissions counselor. The admissions counselor will answer your questions, check your records and discuss the eligibility requirements with you.

Call 1-800-733-JOBS (5627), or in Washington, Oregon and Idaho, call 1-800-863-JOBS (5627). Visit us on the web at  www.jobcorps.org.

NW Job Corps Career Training

• Accounting Clerk
• Auto Body Repair
• Auto Mechanics/Technician
• Brick Masonry
• Business Clerical
• Carpentry
• Cement Masonry
• Child Development Worker
• Computer Service Technician
• Construction Worker
• Culinary Arts
• Dental Assistant
• Dispensing Optician
• Electrician
• Facilities Maintenance
• Forestry Technician
• Glazing
• Heavy Equipment Operation and Repair
• Landscape Gardener
• Medical Assistant
• Medical Office Specialist
• Nursing Assistant (Certified)
• Painting
• Pharmacy Technician
• Phlebotomist
• Plastering
• Printing
• Retail Sales/Marketing
• Seamanship (Deckhand and Engine Room)
• Truck Driving
• Urban Forestry
• Waste Water Treatment
• Welding

NW Job Corps Center Locations

* For Alaska residents only
** For Multnomah County, Oregon residents only