PRIDE Industries' Transition Services team is focused on helping transition-aged students, 18-25 years old, achieve successful employment after exiting school. Students with disabilities develop personal and vocational skills to ease the transition from school to work and enjoy lifelong career opportunities.
We offer comprehensive services centered on self-determination, employment preparation, and job placement to facilitate student-driven transition planning aimed at high school completion, higher education, vocational training, or employment. Students can transition to a variety of work opportunities at one of PRIDE's local sites, at a supervised offsite setting, or through individual employment in the community.
Our Transition Services staff collaborates with high schools, educators, parents and families, community organizations, and employers to ensure success for each individual student. We provide both transition planning and transition services.
Transition Planning
- Collaboration with families, caregivers, schools, worksites, WorkAbility, Regional Centers, and the Department of Rehabilitation
- Classroom presentations, school and individual tours
- Attendance at Individual Education Plan (IEP) or Individual Transition Plan (ITP) meetings
- Internships at PRIDE Industries
- Transition Advisory Board-Community/Parent bi-annual advisory and planning meeting
Transition Services
- Transition Support Group--Facilitated bi-monthly peer-to-peer employee meeting
- Personal development classes--Offered in Anger Management, Healthy Relationships, Assertiveness, Harassment, Self-Determination, and Conflict Resolution
- Committee participation--Human Rights, Peer Advisory, Safety, Transition Advisory Board
- Assessments--Person-centered model to develop vocational goals. Psychological, physiological, developmental characteristics, transferable skills, vocational interests, self-evaluation, and academic strengths incorporated into plan development.
For more information, contact our Transition Services team at (800) 550-6005 or use our online contact form.
