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Hopes and Dreams
Transitions’ Vocational Services Program addresses the needs of adults and high school age students with a variety of differing abilities to ensure that they have the opportunity to learn, grow, and work in a community-based job setting with peers,
coworkers, and supervisors. It is our hope that through these employment opportunities, they are able to identify their employment dreams and to assist them in setting and reaching these goals by taking incremental steps towards their dreams.
Aspirations and Aims
We all learn skills through instruction, practice, and application. Work skills specifically are best developed by observing appropriate real-world examples of soft skills and tasks applied in real jobs while being paid a competitive wage alongside colleagues of all ability levels. Progress is documented, routinely reviewed, and supports are modified when needed to ensure that clients are making forward progress at a pace appropriate for their abilities. Client’s experiences of personal
improvement, greater choice, self-advocacy, and workplace satisfaction are the ultimate measures of quality.
Values and Outcomes
Our vocational services are coordinated with others who the client needs as part of their support team. Besides themselves, this may include family, school, vocational rehabilitation counselors from the Idaho Division of Vocational Rehabilitation or the Idaho Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired,
and other organizations, agencies, or individuals as needed to provide clients with real world opportunities to develop specific work-related skills. Through our program, clients will develop
and improve their abilities in areas such as social interaction, soft skills related to work, job specific tasks, understanding of workplace responsibilities, self-advocacy, pride of accomplishment, communication, receiving and following up on
instructions, self-direction, team participation, and following safety procedures and employer policies.
Progress and Advancement
Transitioning out of services occurs when clients achieve a level of workplace skills that demonstrate they no longer need help with day-to-day tasks and responsibilities to the extent they can be a successful employee accomplishing the tasks in the way their employer needs the work done. Depending on the severity of need and/or level of ability, some clients will gain independence and move on in their employment without
employment supports other than that provided by a supervisor, where others may receive reduced levels of support over time
but may never entirely graduate. Either way, the client’s long-term, on-going success is the ultimate goal.