Pre-Arrival Support

OFF TO A GREAT START

Students involvement with Loring Job Corps Center begins before they arrive. Staff are working hard in making preparations and coordinating services, etc weeks and at times, months before arrival. We begin early to ensure each student's arrival and transition to center life is a smooth one.

If you're already scheduled to arrive, here's some helpful information about your responsibilities, what to expect and how you can help make it happen smoothly. You cannot do too much preparation for your start in Job Corps. You should become familiar with the Enrollment Readiness section of this site. Please review it and follow the directions provided to you. And lastly, you can download a Pre-Arrival Packet now, as well as find it and other important information in both the Enrollment Readiness section, as well as the Resource Center in this site. See you soon!

Staff will be contacting you by phone to discuss a variety of things with you. We are interested in exploring your vocational choices, long-term career goals, as any transitional needs that you may have. We also send you a welcome packet which contains important information for you before you arrive. It is very important that we have updated telephone numbers and addresses that can accept a FedEx package (no P.O. Boxes, please).

On behalf of the entire staff at Loring Job Corps, we welcome you to your new home away from home. We are extremely proud of our students’ accomplishments and await to see your name on the long list of Loring Job Corps graduates.

Loring Job Corps assists our students to move their lives in a new direction. We aid our students in gaining technical skills of a trade enabling them to be employable through the Career Development Services System Job Corps methodology. With this focus, we offer a challenging academic curriculum which prepares our students to enter multiple avenues of advancement. Their paths can lead them to the world of work, military service, technical college training, advanced Job Corps training, or university studies.

Our center programs operate under an open entry/exit environment. This learning approach allows students to start their learning where ever they are educationally, and advance to their highest level of achievement after they have demonstrated mastery. A fundamental outcome at Loring Job Corps is to help each student attain their highest level in Reading, Math, written and oral communication, good work ethics, personal growth, and vocational competencies.

Loring Job Corps is a Maine Department of Education accredited “Non Traditional Limited Purpose High School” with an experienced state certified teaching staff. Our school is aligned with numerous area high schools enabling our students to obtain their high school diploma either from their home town school or by cooperative high school diploma program which enables any student (from any state in New England) to obtain their high school diploma.

All students are tested on Reading and Math skills during the Career Preparation. These TABE (Test of Adult Basic Education) scores determine what level of assistance the student will receive in our academic program.

It is our hope that this information is useful in preparing you for your exciting decision to come to Loring Job Corps Center. We have a lot to offer to our students and we believe you too can find success with us. If you have any questions or concerns please don’t hesitate to give us a call and let’s start your future today!

(Note: Some of the documents are in PDF format. To use these files, download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader from the Adobe web site.)