News release
The William S. Hart Union High School District’s Career Visions program is scheduled to host its 13th annual Resource Information Night, 6-8 p.m. Wednesday Placerita Junior High School’s Turner Hall.
This year’s event will be held in partnership with the city’s Youth Employment Services program, and features a 15-minute showcase format highlighting various local employment training services available to both in-school youth and adults, said a news release from the Hart district.
The mission of Career Visions remains rooted in providing workforce preparation services to students with disabilities and those with any perceived barrier to employment who are actively enrolled with the district, including paid work training and direct hire opportunities supported by more than 100 local employers, the release said.
In 2024-25, the program provided workforce preparation and community-based work placement opportunities to more than 1,000 students and young adults at close to a quarter-million dollars invested in student wages, the release said.
“We’ll continue to focus on several key areas of growth this school year: community outreach; family education; workforce preparation; and local job development leading to long-term employment for any individual with a disability or substantial barrier that expresses a desire to work,” program Supervisor Kevin Sarkissian said in the release. “The Career Visions team, with financial support from California’s Department of Rehabilitation and Department of Education, works to develop quality, private sector work training partnerships with local employers throughout the Santa Clarita Valley. As a result, we’ve enjoyed tremendous success this school year, helping hundreds of kids gain access to direct hire and subsidized work opportunity. I’m really proud of those outcomes. We’ve got a great team, and I look forward to new challenges with continued success.”
Career Visions, along with community partners, supports a continued nationwide push to bring proven workforce preparation fundamentals to youth in need with the added incentive of a paid work training experience intent on embracing a direct hire and long-term employment philosophy, the release said.
“Transition services are still a federal mandate for students with disabilities, but recent changes in regulation have allowed us to broaden our service reach to any student with a perceived barrier to employment, including probation, foster youth, and those in recovery from substance abuse. We recognize that parents have questions regarding the work training component of transition, and feel that this information night offers families a great forum in which to network and share ideas while allowing us to reinforce the importance of shared ownership in the work experience process,” Sarkissian added.
Career Visions services are provided by a team of trained career transition advisors.
Space for this event is limited. To RSVP, contact Career Transition Advisor Louise Willard at 661-212-9429 or by email at: [email protected] by Monday.
Light refreshments will be served. Placerita Junior High School is located at 25015 N. Newhall Ave., Newhall. For more information go to www.cvworks.org.
