Become a
Certified JRI Trainer

A certified Job Ready Indy (JRI) trainer is able to offer employability skills training to participants ages 16-to-24 throughout Marion County. The curriculum has been developed to include Training Manuals and an online Curriculum Access portal through which trainers have all needed resources and lessons at their fingertips. 

Trainers are responsible for:

1) collecting and reporting participant demographic and badging information
2) ensuring training is conducted to program standards
3) providing JRI training sessions, free of cost, to participants
4) awarding badges to JRI participants via the Badging Portal

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EmployIndy is responsible for:

1) facilitating train-the-trainer sessions for trainers to attend throughout the year, free of cost
2) providing, free of cost, participant workbooks to trainers serving Marion County participants ages 16-to-24.
3) providing JRI training sessions free of cost to participants
4) awarding badges to JRI participants

Steps to Become a Certified JRI Trainer(s)

1) Set up initial information meeting with EmployIndy's JRI Manager (Ashley Downey / adowney@employindy.org),
 and check out this brief intro to JRI
2) Sign and return JRI's Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and Data Sharing Agreement (DSA).
3) Complete the JRI Train-the-Trainer session and it's accompanying Check for Understanding.
4) Have follow up and final conversation with EmployIndy, solidifying your use of curriculum.
5) Begin training participants!