Do you feel you need more information about options before graduating from high school?

Students are you grades low and do you feel you need more assistance in completing work?

Do you need links to resources in the community?

Do you have a career plan if college is not a plan after high school?

If so, then Iowa Jobs for American's Graduates (I-JAG) is a program for you. I-JAG is approaching it's 2nd year at East High and it's 7th year in the Waterloo Community School District. With the sucess of I-JAG's 11th and 12th grade programs at East High, the program will be offered to 9th and 10th graders starting with the 2006-2007 school year.

Iowa Jobs for America's Graduates provides an effective strategy to strengthen the secondardy education systems by serving youth needing additional assistance in completeing a secondardy education, pursing post-secondary education or training, and or entering the workforce in a qualitly job leading to a career.

I-JAG offers a sucessful program by providing several unique services:

• Career Development
• Academica Remediation
• Post-Secondary Research
• Job Attainment
• Job Survival
• Basic Skills
• Life Survival Skills
• Job Shadowing, internships and part-time employment
• Follow-up service does not end after graduation, but continues for twelve months after graduation to ensure a scucessful school-to-career transistion.
  

For more information, please contact East High Career Specialist: Endya Johnson at (319) 433-2400.