Currently accepting applications for Skills Trainers
Students participation requires registration with DARS. Apply Here - Skills TrainerDARS Website - Students/Parents
Goal:
Provide work experiences in our community to DARS-eligible high school students who have developmental or intellectual disabilities.
Barriers:
- Limited access to safe transportation
- Finding meaningful employment opportunities
- Require more training and support to become independent as employees
- Workplaces understanding the need and being able to provide accommodations, so the employee can have access serve the community
Benefits:
- More inclusive community which is able to benefit from these highly-capable individuals
- Helps the person develop work skills and soft skills, as well as improve self-confidence by developing working relationships
- Provides a larger employment base for the community
- Skills Trainers gain knowledge of employment opportunities, receive Disability Awareness training, and learn how to create accommodations in a concrete way
- Inclusion mindset for the community by providing disability training to work sites
Be part of making AMAZING THINGS HAPPEN with the READY Program
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Program Mechanics
- Work with stakeholders who are familiar with providing employment support services to assist in skills training for employment base to work with high schoolers with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
- Create relationships with high schools within the community to find students with disabilities who want work experience, and connect them with employers who would like to expand their employee base through this program.
- Stay rooted in person-centered planning to successfully match individuals with disabilities who want to work with skills trainers with the right employment positions in the community.
- Start small and grow
