Career Tech In Correctional Institutions

Career-technical programs are offered in youth and adult correctional facilities in Ohio. The prison agencies – Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, through the Ohio Central School System, and the Ohio Department of Youth Services, through Buckeye United School District - collaborate with the Office of Career-Technical Education, Ohio Department of Education, to receive career-technical support from federal Perkins and state dollars.

During FY2013, adult career-technical programs served over 1,600 Career Development and over 4,700 Career Enhancement students. This is in addition to the 266 students served in secondary career-technical programs.

In FY2013, the Buckeye United School District served nearly 1,100 students in 16 programs in four juvenile institutions.

The classes offered include Career-Based Intervention, Career Search. Healthy Living, Barbering, Cosmetology, Administrative Office Technology,  and Masonry along with many other construction and manufacturing technology programs. 

To view the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, Career-Technical Program Performance Review Executive Summary FY2014, click

Refer to the below websites for more information on the agencies involved with youth and adults in the state’s correctional facilities.

• Ohio Department of Youth Services
• Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction

To view the Ohio Department of Education Office of Career-Tech Education Youth Corrections performance review executive summary for FY2016, please click here.

To view the Ohio Department of Education Office of Career-Tech Education Department of Rehabilitation and Correction performance review executive summary for FY2016, please click here.

Last Modified: 9/16/2020 3:48:03 PM

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