About

Who We Are

The Career Resource Department provides job training and placement services for three groups of people. (1) In School Youth, (2) Out of School Youth and (3) Adults. Services are free and many of our programs pay our participants to learn job skills. Many programs also pay our participants wages when they are first placed at job sites.

What We Do

The benefit of working with the CRD is that we have relationships with hundreds of local employers and work to train participants in our school before we place them on the job. We are not an employment agency that supplies workers within specific industries. We first train our participants with specific skills and then place them on jobs and monitor their success.

Learn and Earn

Participants in many of our programs receive incentives for completing various requirements. Also… after the student is placed on the job we pay for their first 250 hours of work. This gives employers an opportunity to see how our participants perform and fit in at their specific job.

Career
Resource
Department

Address: 2727 F St, Bakersfield, CA 93301

Phone: (661) 322-7492

Fax: (661) 322-2738

The Kern High School District (KHSD) is committed to ensuring equal, fair, and meaningful access to employment and education services. KHSD prohibits discrimination, harassment (including sexual harassment), intimidation, or bullying in any employment practice, education program, or educational activity on the basis and/or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics of age, ancestry, color, ethnic group identification, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical information, national origin, physical or mental disability, parental status, political affiliation, pregnancy and related conditions, race, religion, retaliation, sex, sexual orientation, military or veterans status, homelessness, foster status, or any other basis prohibited by California state and federal nondiscrimination laws consistent with Education Code 200 and 220, Government Code 11135, and Title IX. If you believe you have been subjected to discrimination, harassment (including sexual harassment), intimidation, or bullying you should contact your school site principal and/or the District's Equity Compliance Officer and Title IX Coordinator, Dean Juola, 5801 Sundale Avenue, (661) 827-3173, dean_juola@kernhigh.org, and/or Section 504 Coordinator, Jim Bennett, SELPA Director, 5801 Sundale Ave, (661) 827-3100, jim_bennett@kernhigh.org. A copy of KHSD's Uniform Complaint policy and Nondiscrimination policy are available at www.kernhigh.org and upon request.

Kern High School District, Career Resource Department received $2,631,868 in funding for program year 2023-2024. 47% or $1,253,500 from the US Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). The balance of the funds comes from the state Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP), $300,000 and CalWORKS $1,078,368.