For more than a decade, JAG Nevada has operated on a simple belief: that every young Nevadan has the capacity to succeed, and that most of what stands between them and that success isn’t their effort or intelligence, it’s the absence of a caring adult and a structured support system.
We are Nevada’s affiliate of Jobs for America’s Graduates, a national network with 45 years of proven results and more than 1.6 million young people helped to graduation and career. In Nevada alone, we’ve now served more than 26,000 students across communities from Las Vegas to West Wendover, Pahrump to Tonopah.
But our work isn’t about volume. It’s about people.
When Analina joined JAG as a senior at Boulder City High School in fall 2024, she had accumulated 187 absences and was failing multiple classes. Graduation felt out of reach until she made the decision to turn things around.
With the support of her JAG Specialist Analina committed to showing up. During her senior year, she missed only five days of school, passed all of her classes, and proudly graduated with her classmates in May 2025.
Graduation was not the end of her JAG journey. Like all JAG participants, Analina continued receiving support for 12 months after high school as she transitioned into adulthood. During that time, JAG Nevada helped her identify a career pathway, apply for college, secure financial assistance, and build the financial literacy skills needed to manage life after graduation.
Today, Analina is preparing for her second year of college while working part time and maintaining her own apartment.
Through JAG Nevada, she gained more than a diploma. She built the skills, confidence, resilience, and support network needed to continue creating the future she once thought was beyond reach.
Mission: Empowering Nevada’s young people with the skills and support to succeed in education, employment, and life.
North Star: To be the student-centered force empowering Nevada’s youth to transcend barriers, achieve high school graduation, and launch successful, sustainable careers.
What guides us: We believe every young person deserves hope — the real, evidence-based kind, backed by a Specialist who shows up every day. We believe every student deserves dignity, to be seen as a person with potential, not defined by their circumstances. And we believe every student deserves belonging, a community of peers, mentors, and employers who are genuinely rooting for them.
These aren’t aspirational words on a wall. They’re the lived experience of every student in our program.
Beginning as early as 9th grade, students build a multi-year relationship with a JAG Specialist — someone who knows their name, their goals, and their barriers. By graduation, they have a resumé, a plan, and a network. Support continues for 12 months after graduation.
Targeted career and employment support (job training, placement assistance, and pathways into post-secondary education and apprenticeships) are delivered in partnership with K-12 schools, higher education institutions, state agencies, and employer partners.
Sometimes the only barrier between a student and their future is $75 for steel-toed boots. Or a bus pass. Or professional clothing for a job interview. Our Supportive Services program removes those obstacles because a student who can’t get to school can’t learn, and a student who can’t afford to look professional shouldn’t miss the opportunity.
Current Youth in Program
Cumulative Youth Served Since Inception
Graduation Rate (Goal is 90%)
Full-time Positive Outcomes - Work, College, Military or a combination to equal full time (Goal is 75%)
To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to hradmin@jagnevada.org
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Please indicate in your cover letter if you currently hold a valid teaching or substitute license.
JAG Nevada’s vision and mission reflect our fundamental belief that all people belong and deserve fairness, justice, and inclusivity.
We embrace individual uniqueness, foster a culture of inclusion that supports both broad and specific diversity initiatives, leverage the education and institutional benefits of diversity, and engage all individuals to help them thrive. We value inclusion as a core strength and an essential element of our public service mission.
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