California State Society for Opticians

The CSSO Optician Apprenticeship Program creates a career as an Optician to help customers select fashion fit frame eyeglasses, lens shape or contact lenses in accordance with their eyesight or eye conditions. Opticians usually work as part of a team of eye care professionals that includes Ophthalmologists and Optometrists.

In the one year CSSO Optician Apprenticeship Program, you earn as you learn with professional eye care dispensing shops. The program is designed to help students prepare for two national examinations to achieve dispensing license to practice.