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Have this age group familiarize themselves with the language of careers. Because of the inquisitive, natural curiosity of this age group, my focus is to introduce practical and fun career readiness activities. By the end of the first grade, this age group should be able to identify community helpers.

Work with this age group to start understanding the world of work, with the family playing a major role in influencing their career exploration. Through role playing, storytelling to help build career and college vocabulary, also conflict resolution will be the focus. Assisting with parent engagement activities to create a college going culture.

This age group’s peers play an important role and the influence of others can be powerful. The focus is on personal awareness, career, and occupational exploration. Having an awareness of work and basic educational skills. The importance of personal responsibility, planning, career information and career role models that play a meaningful role in this age groups life, as well as parent engagement.

Helping this age group explore their interests, aptitudes, career decision making and post-secondary options. Assist this age group to apply logic and reasoning as to how they conceptualize careers, exploring and understanding college options, to project their future planning that’s necessary for success.

Work with 8th graders with a 3-unit approach: Self-awareness, career awareness and decision making. Partnering with parents – helping with types of information and resources helpful to parents/guardians with transitioning 8th graders selecting a high school. Provide guidance to parents of 8 and 9 graders with understanding high school curriculum choices and how they relate to their child’s career and college options.

Assist this age group with virtual job shadowing, noteworthy interests and skills that emerge. Encourage families to consider participating in summer programs at colleges/universities for high school students. Conducting pre-post career interest inventory testing (in person – 45min-50min) Encourage participants attending college fairs, in person and virtual college campus tours, with parents, school and organizations. Also assist this age group with college comparisons, and resources.

Assisting this age group with utilizing the internet to identify and use career information resources to help with their career and college decision making. Participants will learn how to access and interpret employment trends through the U.S. Department of Labor. Assist students in a college-going culture, with scholarship search engines and websites. Also, assist in fostering experiential learning and critical thinking. Help undocumented youth, also young people who are in foster care, explore post-secondary options. Assist students with an I.E.P. or a medical 504 evaluation of services for improvement (with the parent/guardians written permission). Also, the physically challenged, who are college bound, understand services they are entitled to partnering with NYS Acces-VR and Long Island BOCES vocational programs. Engage this population in a hands-on learning environment, which closes the skills gap for entry level careers, exposing all students to a guided pathway. Aligning career development and career readiness with current business industry needs and demands. Partner with local businesses and community organizations to offer work-based opportunities for my participants to earn job-specific experiences, skills, and knowledge. Working with young people who are enrolled in an alternative high school and GED programs to receive post-secondary education assistance. My participants will be able to identify the difference between an externship, internship, and an apprenticeship. As well as the ability to navigate job search engines.