Summer 2024 Employment Opportunities
- Travis County Summer Youth Employment Program- Work based learning programming for Travis County residents for students with and without disabilities.
Summer Earn and Learn (SEAL) - Program provides students with disabilities, aged 16-22, with work readiness training and paid work experience during the summer. Partnership of TWC and businesses.
- AISD Supported Employment (SE) - Supported Employment is a process designed to help AISD students with disabilities obtain competitive, paid employment by working with an AISD job coach. Contact Transition Specialist for more information.
- TWC Vocational Rehabilitation - Texas Workforce Commission is a state agency that provides workforce development services to students and adults with disabilities. When a student is enrolled in AISD, TWC will provide transition vocational rehabilitation (VR) case management. TWC assigns counselors to each high school.
- Texas Workforce Solutions (TWS) - Workforce Solutions is an organization that provides services specific to career training, job searching, youth services, apprenticeships and more.Services are available for students and adults with or without disabilities.
- Goodwill Youth Employment Programs- Job search assistance, training, and career development case management opportunities for individuals with and without disabilities in Travis County.
- Austin Trade Unions- Central Texas trade unions and paid apprenticeship programs.
- JobCorps - Free, residential career training and education program for low-income young adults ages 16-24.
- LifeWorks - Programming focused on developing the knowledge and skills needed to navigate the challenges of adolescence, move toward independence, and break the cycle of poverty.
Texas Transition and Employment Guide
- AISD Transition Resource List (English) - AISD list of Central Texas resources in the domains of employment, case management, recreation/leisure, and more.
- AISD Transition Resource List (Spanish)
- Texas Transition and Employment Guide- Guide includes transition services; employment and supported employment services; social security programs; community and long-term services and support; postsecondary educational programs and services; information sharing with health and human services agencies and providers; guardianship, alternatives to guardianship, including a supported decision-making agreement under Chapter 1357, Estates Code; self-advocacy, person-directed planning, and self-determination; and contact information for all relevant state agencies.