"I worked in the event rental business and was laid off after 15 years in the industry. I had no other skills to fall back on and it had been 20 years since I had been in school. I had always wanted to be a nurse, but life happened and I just went with it. While I was looking for a job and collecting unemployment, I was informed about WIA. Without this program, I do not know where I would be today. It has paid for books, tuition, assistance with daycare, and gas. The staff has provided support and motivation beyond words. Without this program, I would be looking at a very uncertain future. With this program, I see a very certain future, with a job. Thanks to WIA, I can."

"Randstad has been grateful to have such an outstanding community-based organization available to partner with – particularly over the difficult past couple of years with such high unemployment. Quite often in my end of our industry, we have potential employees approach us who are not adept in writing their résumé or lack access to a home computer link to produce one. Since this is the very base of our starting point, it has been extremely helpful to have a place to send folks for assistance. CobbWorks has been most helpful as a location for redirection and help in redeveloping their job skills for today’s marketplace."

"Being a member of the Cobb community, it is a pleasure to have association with your outstanding organization."

"The staff at the DeKalb Workforce Development (DWD) is a very loving and caring staff that helped give me a life and an agenda. The DeKalb Workforce first began helping me around the age of 17. They took me out of the streets and helped me obtain my GED while also helping to keep money in my pocket by placing me on a work site."

"Every day at 8:00 a.m. I was up at the DeKalb Workforce studying for my GED for 3 or 4 hours a day. After working on my GED, I would leave to go to work. Having an agenda helped me to focus and think more like a man and develop good social and economic skills. My counselor Mr. Blount was always checking on me & other young men in the program making sure we stayed on track & became more responsible young men. Without the help of the DWD, I could be dead or in prison like a lot of my friends & family who fell to the streets."

"If I could give a young man or woman any advice on getting their life together at a young age, I would strongly suggest the DWD because they will try their hardest to provide anything or service they can. They will use all the resources they have to help you to follow any of your dreams."

"In closing, I would just like to thank the DeKalb Workforce and Mr. Blount for helping to change my life. Thank you!"