Communities
Certified Work Ready Communities have the skilled workforce that business demands and the educational infrastructure to drive economic growth and prosperity. To earn the designation, counties must:
- Demonstrate a commitment to improving public high school graduation rates through a measurable increase
- Drive citizens who have not received a high school diploma to take the General Educational Development (GED).
At this time, the Governor’s Office of Workforce Development is not requiring a recertification process for currently certified counties.
Georgia's current Certified Work Ready Communities include:
Appling
Atkinson
Bacon
Baldwin
Barrow
Bartow
Ben Hill
Berrien
Bibb
Bleckley
Brantley
Brooks
Bryan
Bulloch
Burke
Butts
Calhoun
Camden
Candler
Catoosa
Chattooga
Cherokee
Clarke
Clinch
Clay
Cobb
Coffee
Colquitt
Cook
Crawford
Crisp
Dade
Dawson
Decatur
Dodge
Dougherty
Douglas
Early
Echols
Effingham
Elbert
Emanuel
Evans
Fannin
Floyd
Forsyth
Franklin
Gilmer
Glascock
Glynn
Gordon
Grady
Gwinnett
Habersham
Haralson
Hancock
Harris
Heard
Hart
Henry
Houston
Irwin
Jasper
Jackson
Jeff Davis
Jefferson
Jenkins
Johnson
Jones
Lanier
Laurens
Lee
Lincoln
Liberty
Long
Lowndes
Macon
Madison
Marion
McDuffie
McIntosh
Meriwether
Miller
Mitchell
Monroe
Montgomery
Murray
Newton
Oconee
Oglethorpe
Paulding
Peach
Pickens
Pierce
Pike
Polk
Pulaski
Putnam
Quitman
Rabun
Randolph
Rockdale
Schley
Screven
Seminole
Spalding
Stephens
Stewart
Sumter
Talbot
Taliaferro
Tattnall
Telfair
Terrell
Tift
Toombs
Troup
Treutlen
Turner
Twiggs
Union
Upson
Walker
Walton
Ware
Warren
Washington
Wayne
Webster
Wheeler
White
Whitfield
Wilcox
Wilkes
Wilkinson
Worth