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).

All of the current Certified Work Ready Communities are working on recertification plans to maintain their status.

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

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