Office of Workforce Development

About Us

Workforce 44 provides workforce services to businesses and job seekers in the Southwest Georgia region, home to 14 (Baker, Calhoun, Colquitt, Decatur, Dougherty, Early, Grady, Lee, Miller, Mitchell, Seminole, Terrell, Thomas, Worth) counties and 44 incorporated cities within them. Our daily mission is to build for our region a world-class workforce system that sustains and encourages economic growth.

We know that municipal and county lines do not create economies. People and businesses do. When community and business needs are aligned, regions are empowered. Businesses grow. Families prosper. Communities thrive. Futures are built.

Workforce 44 is where the needs of business, people and the community converge and create opportunities for more than 354,000 people and 901,105 businesses. There is power in numbers. Now is the time to seize the power of ONE region, build on the resilience of its communities?both people and businesses?and forge a brighter future.

Workforce 44 envisions the Southwest Georgia of tomorrow as home to a well-trained, dynamic workforce that promotes continuous economic development and businesses that create an unsurpassed quality of life fueled by talent. We envision being an access point to programs, services and activities that help people achieve independence and self-sufficiency and a workforce system that collaborates to meet the needs of business customers.