The program is organized around a job specialist who operates directly in the schools and provides in-classroom instruction of JAG’s curriculum. The curriculum includes career development skills (i.e., basic, job attainment, job survival, leadership and self-development, personal, life survival and workplace).

JAG’s three models include School-to-Career (for seniors in high school), the Dropout Prevention Multi-Year Program (for students in grades 9 to 12), and the Out-of-School Program (serving dropouts or young people in alternative school settings.

New Mexico chose to implement the Multi-Year program as a pilot, which began in December, 2003, in nine high schools: Bernalillo, Santa Fe Capital, Carlsbad, Escalante, Lovington, Mora, Penasco, Questa and Zuni. Taos, Espanola and Shiprock implemented the program in the 2004 Spring semester.

Today, the JNMG Program is based the Senior School-to-Career Program and Multi-Year Multi-Year Program Applications serving high school students during one or more years in high school and for an additional twelve (12) months of follow-up services.

The five (5) primary performance goals of the Jobs for America's Graduates (JAG) Senior School-to-Career Program are results-oriented and measurable:

• a 90% graduation/GED rate;
• an 80% overall success rate at the end of twelve (12) months after graduation, with participants either employed in a job leading to a career, in the military, or enrolled in a postsecondary education or training, or a combination of work and postsecondary education;
• 60% of graduates are employed;
• 60% of employed graduates are in full-time jobs leading to careers; and
• 80% of the graduates are employed full-time and/or are combining work and school.

The Multi-Year performance goals are process-oriented and measurable:

• reduction in the number of absences compared to prior year;
• improvement in GPA compared to prior year;
• reduction in the number of suspensions and expulsions compared to prior year;
• reduction in disciplinary actions;
• participation in the student-led Career Association;
• involvement in no less than two (2) hours of community service per month;
• enrollment in summer school to overcome any deficiencies;
• a return to school rate of 80% (as measured in September of each year)

JAG’s Electronic National Data Management System (e-NDMS) provides tracking of students served, services delivered, and outcomes achieved. Statewide and school performance outcomes are used in JAG's National Accreditation Process. State and local affiliates must receive standard accreditation to remain an affiliate in good standing. It is understood that it may be the third year of operation before the performance goals are achieved.