Taunton Area School to Career, Inc.

TASC is about:

• Teaching academic, technical and employability skills to our students.
• Extending the classroom into the workplace.
• Connecting work and learning.
• Having students focus on transferable skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, decision-making, team building and leadership.
• Having all students able to make more informed career decisions.

We accomplish our goals through the following programs and services:

• Job Shadowing
• Career Mentor Program
• Construction Career Day
• Internship Program
• Project Intern
• In-School Curriculum
• Co-Op
• Job Readiness Training Workshops
• YouthWorks Program
• Academic Support, Work and Learning (Project WIN)
• Academic Support, Work and Learning (Project Achieve)
• Teacher Externships

Taunton Area School to Career, Inc. (TASC) is about helping young people to become professionally competitive within a global economy in the 21st century.  We continue to bridge the gap between business and education in order to improve tomorrow's workforce.

TASC was created in 1995 as a business/education/community partnership called at the time, the Taunton Area School to Work Local Partnership, with seed money for 3 years from the federal government. Actually, the partnership was business driven, since nationally, businesses were saying they were not happy with the skills that graduates had or didn't have as they came into the work world.  In 1994, Congress passed the National School to Work Opportunities Act, which created business-education partnerships throughout the country in general and Massachusetts in particular.

In 1998, when the federal money ended, Taunton Area School to Work Local Partnership incorporated and became a 501(c)3 private, non-profit called Taunton Area School to Career, Inc.  We serve 3 school systems (Bristol County Agricultural High School, Taunton High School and Taunton Alternative High School).  We work with various businesses, business associations, municipal offices, and civic organizations as well as Bristol Community College, the Taunton Area Chamber of Commerce, the Taunton Career Center, the Bristol Workforce Investment Board and the other school to career partnerships under the umbrella of Workforce Investment Board.