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.

Eligibility

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

Summer Programming

More information on summer programming for 2025, including the Easterseals Transitions Academy, is coming soon.