Vocational Services Program
The program is a job readiness program that encompasses social skills combined with hands on job training techniques. It is a progression program in which participants work toward a job preparedness. This program opens with a basic understanding of simple communication skills and developing a true understanding of job site awareness.
Program Design
There are three levels.
- The first level consists of a sensorial teaching methodology inspired by the Montessori method developed and produced by Maria Montessori. This helps with the progression of our participants that struggle from dexterity issues, visual impairments, and other challenges.
- The social aspect will help to develop environmental understanding which gives a sense of how we are expected to work in certain job environments. This encompasses conversational skill, boundaries, work attire, hygiene, and many more social challenges.
- Job readiness and hands on training comes naturally when our participants have reached an understanding of the environment and now their focus is hands on skill training. Skill training encompasses various levels of job skills such as: grocery bagging, telephone answering, grocery stocking, barcode matching, money counting, and other hands on job skills.
The end goal is to create an overall, well-rounded employee and give them the tools to help them get jobs. We are aware the repetition is very important in the developmental disabilities community and will continue to keep developing and working with our participants on each level of skills they require, in order to get them were they aspire to be. We are hoping to strengthen their natural abilities and enhance their talents.
