Programs Your Loved One Can Access at Pickaway Correctional
Programs at Pickaway Correctional Institution offer real ways to build skills, earn credentials, and stay focused. Here's a breakdown of academic, career-technical, therapeutic, and community-service options available—so you can help your loved one figure out what might work for them.
Pickaway offers several academic paths, from basic skills to diploma-level coursework. Adult Basic Education (ABLE) helps with reading, writing, and math fundamentals. The Pre-GED program builds toward GED readiness, and a full GED program is available for those ready to test. The facility also has a Literacy Unit for focused support with reading and writing skills. Looking beyond equivalency? Pickaway lists Academic High School Options too. Worth asking about if your loved one wants a longer-term education plan.
Sinclair Community College also provides programming at Pickaway. If your loved one is already in adult education, this is a good next question: what Sinclair options exist, and what does it take to qualify or get on a waitlist?
Apprenticeship Career Tech
- ✓ Electrical Maintenance apprenticeship
- ✓ Hazardous Waste Material Tech apprenticeship
- ✓ Health Care Sanitary Tech apprenticeship
- ✓ Maintenance Repairer apprenticeship
- ✓ Plumber apprenticeship
- ✓ Landscape Management Tech apprenticeship
- ✓ DRC Meat Processing Career Center - listed career-technical program at Pickaway
- ✓ OPI Print Shop - listed career-technical program at Pickaway
- ✓ Administrative Office Technology - listed career-technical program at Pickaway
Beyond education and job training, Pickaway offers programs focused on support and personal growth. The OASIS Therapeutic Community is a structured program for incarcerated adults. There's also Embark and a Reading Room program. If your loved one wants routines that support better choices and day-to-day stability, these are worth bringing up.
- ✓ Crayons to Computers - community-service program available at Pickaway
- ✓ 4-Paws - community-service program available at Pickaway
Use this list to have a real conversation during your next call or visit. What are they enrolled in now? What do they want to work toward? Which program names should you listen for in updates? To sign up, the most direct path is asking unit staff or their caseworker about openings and the enrollment process for specific programs.
Note: Program sign-up steps and enrollment contacts weren’t included in the available program listing. Your loved one can ask facility staff or their caseworker for the current process.
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