Click here for a PDF version of the Kids and Careers: How Families Can Help Youth Succeed brochure (460 KB).

This colorful brochure includes:

How parents’ involvement can help children succeed in life.

• Three easy steps to creating a career plan.
• Important timelines for helping teens move from high school to work or further education and training.
• Information about the fastest growing fields and the occupations that are the best bets in Illinois.
• How education increases income while decreasing the chance of unemployment.

There’s also a list of Internet resources for financial aid, higher education, career planning and job search.

Counselors and school administrators: call toll-free (877) 513-1987 or email des.icrn@illinois.gov for packets of printed brochures to hand out at parent-teacher meetings, career days and family events.