The opportunities center is a new school service concept that can help students find opportunities related to their talents and interests in work, education, leisure, small business, or community service. The opportunities center model expands the career center model into an information search center offering multiple services that link academic learning to real-world challenges. The components of an opportunities center include a desktop publishing module, assessment module, telephone bank module, and various areas of study. These areas of study can focus on job search, leisure planning, educational planning, small business options, and community service. Centers can be designed to serve the needs of students and alumni and can be located in secondary, postsecondary, or specialized schools. One particularly promising aspect of opportunities centers is that they can be used to serve all learners, including special needs, gifted and talented, at-risk, and regular classroom students. (This overview of the opportunities center concept includes a discussion of the rationale for developing opportunities centers; descriptions of the desktop publishing, phone bank, assessment, job search, leisure search, small business, education search, and community service study areas that can be included in an opportunities center; a description of services that can be developed for alumni and families; and guidelines for starting a center.) (MN)