Career Resources & Activities

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This section of the Gateway is full of information and ideas on how you can be involved in your child’s career exploration and planning. With advance planning, your child can face the future well-informed and more focused on a career goal. Here you will find the resources to be able to offer the guidance that can make a difference.

PERSONAL SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Self-Assessment: Identifying interests, skills and work-related values

• VSAC – VT Guidance Central
• VSAC – Do What You Are
• VSAC Pathfinders
• Career Development eManual
• Next Steps.org
• Search the VSAC lending library for titles on Self-Assessment

CAREER MANAGEMENT

Information on career planning

• A Parents’ Guide to Career Development
• Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day
• Next Steps   
• VSAC Pathfinder – Career Exploration for High School Students
• Linking Learning to Life – Learn to Earn
• Your Child’s Career

General Career Information

• VSAC – VT Guidance Central
• Career Voyages
• VDOL – Occupational Information Center
• Occupational Outlook Handbook
• O’Net Occupational Network
• Search the VSAC lending library for titles on Careers

EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT & LIFELONG LEARNING

Ways to be more involved in your child’s education

• National Parent and Teacher Association – Parent Resources
• National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education
• Vermont NEA – Parent Advice
• Vermont Department of Education
• National Education Association - Parents           

Support for kids with disabilities

• Vermont Department of Education
• Vocational Rehabilitation – Vermont
• Schwab Learning
• Vermont Parent Information Center
• Linking Learning to Life – Career Start - Services to Chittenden County Youth
• Stern Center for Language and Learning
• LD Online

Finding a mentor

• Mobius – The Mentoring Movement for Chittenden County
• DREAM Program

Helping with homework

• Internet Public Library
• CEO Express
• US Department of Education – Your child’s academic success

How to increase your child’s enthusiasm for school

• Quaglia Institute for Student Aspirations

CLICK HERE to find out more abou the 16 Career Clusters: A Career Cluster is a grouping of occupations and broad industries based on commonalities.