Post-Secondary Education and Training
What Are Your Next Steps After High School Graduation?
Planning your next move after graduating is a long process, so it is
important you start as soon as 14 to 16-years-old! Your first step is to find
what interests you, what topics spike your curiosity or where your strengths
lie. After you find your niche, you and your mentors, parents, teachers, etc.
can start looking at post-secondary education and training options! These
programs, whether that be a 2-year trade school, 4-year bachelors degree,
training programs for employment, or the many other options out there, will
help you transition smoothly into your future career.
One of Many 4-Year Options
Consider Beacon College in Florida, a 4-year college that awards degrees
exclusively to persons with learning disabilities such as ADHD, ADD, Dyslexia,
and other disabilities. They offer a supporting staff that focuses on their
student's success. The class sizes are smaller, teachers who cater to their
student's unique learning styles, individualized mentoring with learning
specialists, utilizing advanced educational technology, and critical thinking
courses developed for their learning abilities. The majors Beacon College
offers their students are Anthrozoology, Business Management, Computer
Information, Human Services, Humanities, Psychology, and Studio Arts. Beacon
College also offers 2-year degrees and minors in a plethora of subjects.
A 2-Year Option Close to Home
The Florida School College of Jacksonville, or FSCJ, offers a 2-year
program for persons with disabilities called VERTICAL, or Vocational and
Employment Readiness Training in Comprehensive Adult Learning. FSCJ has two
locations that both offer an array of hands-on learning, one location is in
downtown Jacksonville and the other is located closer to the beach and the
University of North Florida. This program has a variety of employment training
options for their students such as automotive collision repair, child care,
diesel technology, electrical technology, facial specialty, massage therapy,
and even welding! Not only do they have all these amazing programs, but each
student is paired with a mentor to help support their college experience with a
peer-to-peer friendship.
An Employment Focused Option
Career One Stop is an amazing resource with a plethora of tools to help
guide you in your job search. Not only do they have connections to a variety of
companies looking for hard workers, but they have training programs that
prepare you for your first steps in the workforce. Career One Stop is looking
for any and all people, no matter what disability you may have. The tools
offered on their website are defining your disability and how the ADA can help,
gaining skills you will need for your career, a job search, training for
interviews, disclosing your disability, different job accommodations available,
and connections to vocational rehabilitation. As you can see, Career One Stop
has a lot to offer persons with disabilities! This truly can be your One Stop
before diving head first into the workforce.
Transition Expedition,
ReplyDeleteI loved the resources you gave. This was so easy to understand from both a parent and student's viewpoint. The layout from 4-year programs to career options was very helpful. Previously, I had never heard of Career One Stop. It seemed so helpful to have the full access to descriptions as well as how the ADA plays a role in the careers and services through Career One Stop. Thank you so much both collecting all of these great resources in one spot.
Transition Makers (Wendy, Ashley, Mackenzie, and Hannah)
Transition Expedition,
ReplyDeleteWe really enjoyed the information you provided. By starting out with the steps each student needs to perform to attend college after high school was an attention grabber. It was great how you broke it down into steps, almost like a checklist. This could help students and parents be more successful in post-secondary education transition. We loved how you put different types of colleges they could attend. The Career One Stop resource is also very helpful because some students may not want to attend college after high school, they would rather work. Your page has a lot of good sources for post-secondary and training. We enjoyed your entire layout and information you guys provided. It can be very helpful for not only the students but the parents. Most of the research they need to perform is all on this page.
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