Anyone have experience (good or bad) with Job Corp? Need Advice please...even opinions welcome.

so my 19 yo girl cousin is coming to live with me and wants to go to Job Corp. The website looks promising and awesome,
but when i googled "job corp sucks", i saw nightmare stories about the place being a drug infested, violent, theft riddled, juvenile delinquent,gang infested, "fresh out of prison" type place. and most of the grads are unemployed. and it has a 75% dropout rate...

i really want her to be able to live on her own, and get "life skills" there. i want her to pursue a cna program which seems to be the best program they have to offer and i'm pretty sure she can get a job from that certificate.
she's open to any field, and i don't want her to go into the military where alot of grads go.( no offence to military, she's just not tough enough for that- total respect to military people)

it also bothers me that grads from the program only make about
$9/ hour, when she can work at the Gap and make $11 starting.in the program, she stays in a dorm, 3 meals, and gets paid only $25/per week for 28 hours of physical labor at the school.
(i put myself through college working part time jobs, and have no debt, so i know this alternative can be done)
or get her real estate licence and make $60k per house sold.( and just screw "college" altogether)
we're in los angeles.
the only Job Corp places near us are downtown la and long beach, and i'd hate to see her actually live in either of those two crime infested areas.
i just can't see those places being a good place to "grow up" for an inexperienced teen. i know both cities well, and i'm a pretty tough chick...don't know if its cool for a newbie to be in those places at such a fragile age.

ANY ADVISE would be appreicated.
thanks.




anyone have any experience or thoughts with this?

Last Edited by .:*Buttercup*:. on 05/11/2013 06:57 PM