Pre-Employment Transition Services

Pre-ETS addresses five core services:

• Job exploration counseling, which includes discussing students’ vocational interests, reviewing local labor market and in-demand industries and occupations, exploring non-traditional employment options and identifying career pathways of interest.
• Work-based learning experiences such as apprenticeships and job shadowing, paid and non-paid internships and/or work experiences, informational interviews and volunteer opportunities.
• Counseling on postsecondary opportunities, which includes discussing career pathways, attending college fairs and tours, and accessing disability services and supports.
• Workplace readiness training, which helps students develop communication, problem solving and other specific social and interpersonal skills, as well as independent living skills.
• Instruction in self-advocacy, including building self-awareness, disclosure of disability and knowing individual rights and responsibilities.

Easterseals serves schools throughout northeast Indiana, including schools in Adams, Allen, LaGrange, Wells and Whitley counties.

The Pre-ETS program offers the Dream Teens program, and is available during summer, winter, and spring breaks.

Pre-ETS provides a Family Support Coordinator to help manage transition services for students.

Eligibility

Any student age 14 to 22 with an IEP or 504 plan is eligible for Pre-Employment Transition Services.