Our Programs

OppNet Fellows and Career Fluency® Partnerships

Grounded in OppNet's proprietary Career Fluency® model, both our OppNet Fellows and Career Fluency® Partnerships programs are aimed at catalyzing the personal and professional goals of students so that they can realize their visions of thriving and enduring success.

OppNet Fellows Program

Our founding OppNet Fellows program has guided underrepresented high school students across New York City to college and career success since 2003. Since then, the Fellows program has grown from serving ten students to over 1,100 each school year.

During the six-year program, Fellows are able to gain skills in networking, academic habits, professional know-how, interviewing, and self-advocacy. Through a unique program structure integrating college guidance, transition, and success with professional exposure, career development, and five summers of paid internships or enrichment experiences, Fellows leave OppNet with robust resumes and lifelong networks of support ready to drive their personal and professional success forward.

What Our Fellows Are Saying

"Through multiple conversations with the College Guidance team at OppNet, I was able to understand all my options and take control of the college process, and I'm now so excited to say I’ll be an entering college freshman this fall in the Honors Program of St. John’s University!"

Uma Gayadin

Fellow and OppNet Class of 2023

92%

graduate college within six years

93%

of whom are the first
in their families to do so

89%

secure jobs that align with their
career interests or admission into graduate school within six months of college graduation

Career Fluency® Partnerships Program

We believe that all students can lead lives full of long-term success after high school, and we know that organizations across the city and country are working hard to achieve this goal. With this conviction, and in response to steady inquiries from schools, youth-serving nonprofits, and funders, OppNet launched the Career Fluency® Partnerships program to amplify postsecondary outcomes for partner institutions.

We work closely with partners to train their teachers, guidance counselors, and staff to tailor and deliver our Career Fluency® curriculum, building each partner’s own institutional capacity to achieve desired goals for the students they serve.

What Our Partners Are Saying

"The program has given us tools to help our students explore their interests, envision their futures, and plan for their next steps beyond high school. As a teacher, I appreciate the flexibility and freedom Career Fluency® offers. We are teaching our students valuable life skills.

Kristy O'Driscoll

Teacher, World View High School

9200+

students served across the country
through Partnerships work thus far

440

hours of Career Fluency® programming
delivered at Partner sites in 2017 alone

Career Fluency® Partnerships

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OppNet Fellows Program

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