How Can You Get Involved?
	Comprehensive Guidance And Counseling Program: Contact: Betty Barker (702) 348-0271, Counseling Program Coordinator
	Elementary, Middle, and High School Counselors:  provide services to students in the following areas: 1. Individual Planning - Identification, individual student assessment, program planning for students. 2. Guidance Curriculum - Prevention. Help students learn to learn, learn to live and learn to make a living. 3. Responsive Services - Intervention, individual counseling, small group counseling, consultation, Parent/Teacher/Staff referrals. Contact: Betty Barker (702) 348-0271, Counseling Program Coordinator

School to Careers in Nevada is an educational approach that combines advanced classroom courses and high academic standards with real-life learning to prepare all students for post-secondary education and the highly technical careers of the 21^st century. (School to Careers is known as School-to-Work at the national level. For more information, visit the National School-to-Work Office.) In Nevada, School to Careers initiatives are designed by state and local partnerships among schools, employers, employees, postsecondary institutions, community organizations, and parents to provide youth with a broad array of choices to gain knowledge and skills, and explore careers. The goals of this nationwide movement are to dramatically improve education and how Americans are prepared for work. School to Careers is based on the fundamental principle that education works best and is most useful for life and future careers when students apply what they learn in real work situations.

In 1994, the School-to-Work Opportunities Act was passed by an overwhelming, bipartisan majority of Congress and signed into law. The Act does not create a new top-down Federal program, but encourages States and their partners to bring together education reform, worker preparation and economic development efforts. The goal is to improve our young people’s knowledge and skills and to link learning with work and life’s other responsibilities and opportunities, to help them live successful, meaningful and prosperous lives. The law provides money to States and local partnerships, challenging them to build upon the good things they have already done, as well as new ideas to create systems that provide all students with a choice to participate in this new way of learning. Federal investment jump-starts the process, leverages local and private resources, and sunsets in 2001.