After Graduation: Then What?

Training Today's Youth for Tomorrow's Jobs

Alternate Education and Training Opportunity | Job Placement | Military

Alternate Education and Training Opportunity (AETO)

After you complete a vocational training program at Cascades, you may choose to continue your education with advanced training. When you complete a union-sponsored vocation such as Carpentry, Painting, Cement Masonry, or Electrical, you may apply to attend advanced training at the Turner Job Corps Center, located in Albany, Georgia. If you complete Culinary Arts, you may apply to the Culinary Program at Treasure Island, California. For Clerical Occupations completers, the Transportation Communications Union (TCU), has advanced training sites located at various centers throughout the United States.

If you qualify, you may also apply for admissions to the Skagit Valley Community College through our Alternate Education and Training Opportunity (AETO) program.

You can begin your college education here at Cascades Job Corps. In order to qualify for admission you must meet the following criteria:

• Vocational completion
• School-to-work completion (when applicable)
• Six months in the program
• High School diploma, or GED
• TABE scores in reading and math of 585 or higher
• Positive performance

Upon completion of the above, interested students fill out an application and apply for a PELL Grant. They are then interviewed by a panel who makes admittance recommendations to the Center Director who will then make the final decision for enrollment.

Job Placement: We are part of the solution!

Career Center staff will assist you with your job search when you complete your training. Prior to completing your training, you will be scheduled into Career Preparation III and an individual exit process to assist you in preparing for job searching.

Case Managers and Placement Support staff are available for up to one year after you leave the program. Please stay in contact if you change jobs or get a raise.

You can get confidential and free help with:

• job placement
• transitional allowance
• housing
• transportation
• child care
• community service
• budget planning

How Does the Military Work With Job Corps?

Each year 1200 Job Corps graduates join the United States armed services. During a time when the U.S. miliary is calling for new recruits, Job Corps has signed a national agreement with the Army establishing Job Corps gradautes' automatic eligibility. Many Job Corps centers have developed relationships with local military recruiters, who refer unqualified candidates to Job Corps for the academic, vocational, and life skills they need to enter the armed services.

Cascades Job Corps has established relationships with local military recruiters who visit the Center to administer ASVAB tests.