About Us

Career Vision Ambassadors will be expounding upon a component of our program that addresses an immediate need in the urban community for girls dealing with E.D.D. (Economic Distress Disparity). Public and private grant funding allows us to service more girls and their families through public policy responsiveness to rise above the glass ceiling for women of color, specifically coming out of the urban population. To date we have serviced in excess of 500(+) adolescent girls at the local level with our career skills building workshops, career related internships, job shadowing, peer-to-career mentoring, workforce development training, and professional career travel. The uniqueness of our program is that it addresses specific disparity issues concerning 21 st century women that will soon enter the workplace prepared and ready as early as the middle and high school level(s) to become immediate value-added employees. We have learned that through early exposure to career issues facing women of color in the workplace our girls are able to identify economic barriers, identify needed courses of action(s) and pursue multiple ways to overcome temporary obstacles. After meeting with the Honorable Mayor Wayne Smith of Irvington Township, in essence, we traveled to The United Nations, New York, Human Resources Management Department, as well as Washington, DC to meet with Senator Jon Corzine’s Office, to discuss overall resolutions pertaining to urban economic global distress and disparity differentials facing African American Women. Our career travels produced invaluable exchange of information and resourceful career networking opportunities for the girls.

Career Vision Ambassadors is a charitable, social, educational, career oriented, tax exempt, non profit 501c(3) organization that offers critically needed services to young women struggling from low self-value, poverty, homelessness, insufficient education, discrimination and deteriorating welfare. Our organization is a 4-tier program that consist of the Irvington Ambassadors, Scholars, Leading Ladies and Elite Alumni. We align our efforts with community leaders and perform annual civic duties throughout Essex County.

Benefit to the School District - Over 85% of our girls are from single parent/ incarcerated family households and are challenged by daily “economical” survival and insufficient workforce development training. Girls gravitate towards our extracurricular non-traditional type of learning because it is hands-on and geared towards practicing short-term perseverance techniques to accomplish long-term results in a safe, un-judged and friendly setting. Our curriculum is structured in accordance to meet the requirements of the New Jersey Department of Education Core Curriculum Standards: Cross-Content Workplace Readiness, 9.1 Career and Technical Education, 9.2 Consumer, Family and Life Skills. We work in coordination with the school districts administrative personnel. As our program is housed within Irvington’s Public Library History Room we travel to local schools to provide “hot topic” career symposiums separate from our program’s weekly, bi-weekly and monthly career workshops. The project’s prudent development over the past 2 years under the auspice guidance of Executive Director, Catherine V. Sauls, has been requested by the community/parents to expand their services.

Career Vision Ambassadors is committed to redefining & shaping adolescent career strategies through consistent training programs, peer structured mentoring and collaborative partnerships. If you would like to Partner With Us or give a donation to help change young lives, please click on the Donations button.

 

Catherine V. Sauls
Executive Director
Career Vision Ambassadors
Civic Square,
c/o Servicemen Clubhouse,
1113  Springfield Avenue,
Irvington, New Jersey, 07111;
Office 1 (800) 436-9773