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The financial situation may continue to worsen for families led by single mothers. Thirteen percent of single-parent families live below the poverty limit.</li> </ul></p> <h4>Our high-quality career exploration programs can provide the missing link to lucrative and personally satisfying careers.</b></font> <ul> <li class="li" color="#731472" FONT="Gill Sans MT" >Many women work in careers not considered  traditional for women, but that they find lucrative and personally satisfying.</li> <li class="li">Young women often need mentoring to explore the full range of career paths. </li></p></ul></font> </li></p></ul></font></b></b></span> <p>Our career exploration programs are effective and affordable career exploration workshops that are easy to implement. CAMKit's talented, experienced instructors come to our client's location, bringing all workshop supplies. In these custom-designed workshops, we encourage young women to explore a variety of traditional and nontraditional careers, which the client picks from our list of <a href="http://www.camkit.info/registration.html#careers">career possibilities.</a> Rather than emphasize one career or another, CAMKit programs engage young women in thought-provoking activities to help them explore careers that they might like to learn more about.</p> <p>Through innovative and engaging methods and materials, CAMKit teachers encourage young women to discover their skills and interests. Within the context of this supportive team environment, the students gain insight into how to map their skills and values with various careers. Women from diverse ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds serve as mentors. </p> <p></p> <div align="left" valign="top"><p><b>Career and Mentor Kit Programs are available in several formats and combinations of formats.</b></p></p> <div align="left" valign="top"><p> Fifty-minute workshops on one or two careers are the building blocks of the before- and after-school CAMKit programs. CAMKit offers half-day and full-day vacation and summer camps, career days, and 9th grade career exploratory programs. CAMKit programs can accommodate most schedules.</p> <p> We customize our programs to suit our clients, who can combine workshops, camps, and career days over a few weeks, a semester, or an entire year. We meet your scheduling requirements, if at all possible. For example, we can plan workshops for multiple days of the same week or for consecutive weeks. </p> <p color="#731472" FONT="Gill Sans MT"><b> Students love our summer camps where they "try on" a variety of careers while working on individual and team projects.</p></b></font> <p>Our two-week, full-day summer camp is an exceptional career exploration model. Held in a voc-tech high school's shops, students rising 7th, 8th grades, and 9th grade "try on" three careers during activities that introduce them to some qualifications and activities necessary for the career. Parents and friends celebrate the students' achievements at end-of-camp festivities. This program may serve as a pipeline of female students for the voc-tech school and then into STEM-related, traditional, and nontraditional careers.</p> <p> The <a href="http://www.camkit.info/registration.html">registration page</a> on the CAMKit website provides additional information for signing up for a program. You may also call (617) 9999-9546 for further information. <p><p color="#731472" FONT="Gill Sans MT"><b>CAMKit Programs fulfill every school's needs for quality career education</b></p> <ul> <li class="li"><b>Be an innovator</b>  Provide the missing link to financially rewarding and personally satisfying careers for your female students with exciting programs that benefit their future and complement your curriculum.</li> <li class="li"><b>Students blossom</b>  Middle and high school women can mature as they explore new careers and gain confidence with creative, hands-on activities and our educators'positive reinforcement.</li> <li class="li"><b>Easy, affordable implementation</b>  After-school and other out-of-school-time programs require no internal staff or fancy equipment. Seasoned instructors come to your school, bringing all materials with them. The result is simple program administration with great results.</li> <li class="li"><b>Flexible schedules</b>  We offer out-of-school-time programs, vacation and summer camps, and 9th grade career exploratory programs to accommodate most schedules. Our activities encourage young women to consider careers that may be new to them.</li> <li class="li"><b>Supplemental introductory and wrap-up sessions</b>  encourage creativity and expand young women's exploration of personal interests, skills, and careers.</li> </ul> <p><p color="#731472" FONT="Gill Sans MT"><b><A href="staff.html" >Talented professionals</a> come to your school and provide a wide range of valuable services</b></p> <ul> <li>Teach workshops using innovative methods</li> <li>Assist in research and grantwriting to fund CAMKit programs</li> <li>Build long-lasting relationships</li> <li>Evaluate and re-assess CAMKit programs</li> </ul> <hr style="background-color: rgb(115, 20, 114);" noshade="noshade" color="#731472" align="center" width="90%" size="2"></font></div> <table bordercolor="#660066" border="2" width="400" align="center"> <tr><td align="center"> <p><b>Note:</b> The CAMKit Program is a project of <A href="staff.html">Sandpiper Creative.</a> The Program is patent pending and copyright protected.</p></td></tr> </table> <hr align="center" width=90% color=#731472> <p class="copyright"> Copyright © 2010, 2011. <A href="staff.html">Barbara Passero.</a><br> All rights reserved worldwide.</p> <p class="copyright">Website Development by: <A href="http://www.webvortex.biz" target="new">Web Vortex</A></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> </td></tr></table> </BODY></HTML>