Sierra Pacific High program makes 'deposits' into students' future careers

HANFORD, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Career Technical Education programme successful the South Valley is making "deposits" into students' aboriginal careers.

One Valley Strong Credit Union Branch successful Hanford is unique.

That's due to the fact that it's operated by juniors and seniors astatine Sierra Pacific High School, nether the supervision of a subdivision manager.

"It's a full-service subdivision that serves our students and staff," Teacher Kim Dodd said.

Dodd runs the Business Finance Academy astatine the precocious school.

It's a four-year pathway that teaches students the principles of finance, planetary business, concern instrumentality & ethics, and idiosyncratic fiscal planning.

Starting their inferior year, students tin use to enactment astatine the field branch.

"It is, successful essence, a existent occupation with occupation acquisition they tin enactment connected their resumes," Dodd said.

Danae Brewer graduated past twelvemonth but sat astatine these precise workstations.

She's present moving astatine the bank's downtown Hanford branch.

She says she utilized to beryllium shy, but this programme and her existent occupation helped her interruption retired of her shell.

"It helped maine larn to accommodate to antithetic situations arsenic good arsenic teaching maine further things - similar adjacent conscionable learning however to speech to people," Brewer said.

Valley Strong Field Marketer Kathleen Remillard says the institution believes successful investing successful the youth, and Denae's communicative is an illustration of however the acquisition tin beryllium mutually beneficial.

"It gives america a prime to spot who's determination and if they're willing, and besides amusement them that there's much to Valley Strong than conscionable the branches," Remillard said.

Hanford Joint Union High School District Superintendent Victor Rosa says this is conscionable 1 of the Career Technical Education pathways offered by the district.

"We're truly arrogant arsenic a territory to afloat enactment our CTE, and we perpetually person to amended our assemblage arsenic to programs that they deliberation nary longer exist, that person existed with america for the agelong haul," Rosa said.

Dodd says she's hopeful that what students larn present volition instrumentality with them passim their lives.

"So I'm hoping that this radical that leaves the academy each twelvemonth looks backmost and gains immoderate truly bully acquisition to assistance them with their fiscal futures," Dodd said.

This precocious schoolhouse programme has been truthful palmy that astir 10% of the Valley Strong workforce are present graduates of the program.

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