What is JFYNetWorks?
JFYNetWorks, Boston’s leading non-profit education and job training innovator, creates and disseminates education and training programs that support the development of a skilled workforce for the 21st Century. Beginning in middle school with interactive online science and math instruction and continuing through high school, JFYNet academic support builds the foundation skills that are needed for careers and for post-secondary study. After high school, JFYNetWorks offers intensive skill training courses that lead directly to employment in environmental fields.
Mission
To empower youth and adults through education and job training to realize their full potential as achieving students, productive earners and engaged citizens.
History
JFYNetWorks, a Boston-based non-profit education & training agency, was founded in 1976 under the name Jobs For Youth. The mission of the organization was to help high school dropouts find entry-level jobs through job-readiness and basic English and math tutoring. During the 1980s, the agency developed a competency-based instructional system that led to a full-fledged GED program and an alternative high school—long before charters, pilots and other alternatives. In the 1990s, JFY adapted to the rapidly changing economy by developing pioneering job training programs in biotechnology, entrepreneurship, health care, financial services and environmental technology. In 2000, JFY applied its competency-based educational techniques to the cause of MCAS preparation and introduced the use of instructional technology. This program was called JFYNet. In 2003, the agency changed its name to JFYNetWorks. Throughout its history, JFYNetWorks has sought to apply its education and training expertise and resources in the most effective way possible to address the root causes of disenfranchisement, underemployment and poverty.
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