What A Great Time We Had At Our
School-to-Careers Farewell Breakfast!

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Useful Resources
Although this is our final EDUCAN, we want to leave you with some resources that may continue to be of help to you.

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Workplace Tips

The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook
by Martha Davis, Matthew McKay, Ph.D., Elizabeth Robbins Eshelman
(Paperback - September 2000)
Many self-assessment tools and stress-busting techniques all focusing on daily scenarios people often find stressful.

Check out how efficiently you are handling your time with the Time Managementy Quiz at Monster.com

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Admissions & Financial Aid

Remember to check out upcoming SAT I and II and ACT deadlines.

Students and parents can obtain a PIN to easily access your FAFSA information. Go to the FAFSA on the Web site and register. The PIN will be mailed in 7-10 days.

DC CAP has advisors in each D.C. Public High School to assist students with the college and financial aid application process. Students who register with DC CAP may also be eligible for a last-dollar scholarship of up to $2,000. Please encourage students to take advantage of this resource.

DC TAP provides grants for students to attend public colleges and universities throughout the United States and private college and universities in the DC Area. Make sure at least one eligible institution is on each student’s list of prospective colleges!

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Career Center

O*NET, the Occupational Information Network, is an online resource for career and job information. You can find it at onetcenter.org. O*NET includes a skill search to help students identify careers that match occupations with skills.

WAVE provides teachers and youth development professionals in schools and community organizations with adaptable teaching strategies and tools that ensure both youth professionals and young people succeed. More info at www.waveinc.com.

Bridges is a comprehensive on-line tool that provides up-to-date information on careers, employment trends and emerging opportunities for students and adults in transition. Bridges can be used by everyone from middle school students to adult learners.

Bridges offers a wide variety of job profiles, interviews with career experts, career assessment tools, career and educational planning tools (including resume planners) and more.

How to access Bridges
Thanks to a grant received by the D.C. Public Schools Career and Technical Education Office, Bridges is available in 50 locations throughout the city. Each middle school, junior high school, career high school, and STAY program has a site license for the school. If you attend or work in one of these schools, contact the guidance counselor to obtain the login and password for your school.

If you do not have access to Bridges through your school, you can access it via the College Info Center at the MLK library. Please follow the steps below:

1. Go to www.cx.bridges.com

2. Select the American version

3. Enter the following Login information

• User ID: 0090064
• Password: Housecleaner

4. To create an individual portfolio, you will need to enter a School ID and School Key. These are:

• School ID: martinDC8924
• School Key: PKHt64kM67

Note that all ID's and Passwords are 'case sensitive' so
make sure you enter them exactly as written above!

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College Info Center Resources

The College Info Center (CIC) has a wide variety of print and online materials to help wth college admissions, financial aid and career information as well as counselors to help you through the process.

Check out the More Resources section for an expanded list of links to other great Internet resources. You can now download copies of the most popular CIC fact sheets using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Feel free to make print copies for students in your programs and classes. If you need quantities for a class or youth program, call us at (202) 393-1100 ext. 16 for assistance.