Pre-Employment Transition Services: One Student’s Journey and Experience
Pre-Employment Transition Services, or Pre-ETS, is for "students with disabilities who are eligible or potentially eligible for VR services”. In Indiana, students between the ages of 14-22 can participate in Pre-ETS to learn valuable pre-employment skills and prepare for the transition out of high school and into adulthood and the workforce. Steven Miller is a student who has participated in Pre-ETS in Bloomington, Indiana since early 2021. In this interview, Steven elaborates on some of his experiences in Pre-ETS with Alicia Wray, Pre-ETS Coordinator at Stone Belt Arc, Inc.
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Resiliency
Throughout our life, we will face challenges and obstacles – how we face these times can have a profound affect on us and shape how we handle adversity in the future.
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High School vs. College: How Do They Differ?
In preparing to attend college, there are a lot of things a student must do in order to make this a successful transition: Taking entrance exams, applying for colleges, visiting campuses, and researching schools are all a vital part of this process. When planning for these changes, it can be important to ask a fundamental question: How do high school and college differ?
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Exploring Career Pathways
It all starts with the age-old question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”, sometimes the newer version, “What problems do you want to solve in the world?”. Either way it is phrased, exploring potential careers is an important step in starting a career path.
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The Great Employment Movement
There is a movement brewing, a gentle whisper in the wind stating the time is NOW! The State of Indiana has committed to helping providers move away from work in sheltered workshops. Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) has a goal to work its way out of order of selection in the next five years. With federal and state supports, we are looking at an upcoming movement of growth for individuals with disabilities in the workplace!
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From Pre-ETS to VR Services – the How and Why
From our partners at the Indiana Secondary Transition Resource Center at IU is this handy resource on “The How and Why of Pre-ETS and VR”. This one-page document gives a quick overview of both pre-employment transition services (pre-ETS) and ‘traditional’ VR services and how the 2 can work together for the benefit of students with disabilities. Happy reading!
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Employment Services: A Providers Perspective
Employment Service Providers provide a benefit to both an individual seeking employment as well as to a business that is looking to hire employees. Employment Providers match talents of individuals to business’s needs for long term success. In the current job market, there is a vast number of openings as well as numerous talented individuals that want to work. Tapping into an Employment Service Provider can greatly benefit….
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Pre-ETS Update
This month, I’d like to do a review and update of pre-employment transition services (pre-ETS). Starting October 1, 2020, we had a few changes to our pre-ETS contracts.
Remember that pre-ETS has 5 required activities and is available to students with disabilities statewide through our 12 pre-ETS providers.
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Tried and True Transition Tips
As a young professional on the autism spectrum, I know firsthand the difficulties that are faced during the process of transition into adulthood with a disability in this day and age. Here are some tips for individuals at all steps of their journey that have proved useful to me as well as my friends in similar situations.
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Last Blast of Summer
Summer is just about over and the start of the school year is upon us. This final “blast of summer edition” of Transition Trends will focus on the new Department of Education graduation requirements officially going into effect this year for the class of 2023. In December, 2017, the State Board of Education adopted these new graduation pathway policies. They are officially in effect now, though schools were free to opt in early if they wished.
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