B.E.S.T. Community Worker

Upstate Caring Partners; City of Utica (NY); On-site; USD 964,000 - 1,515,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career exploration

Paid employment

Networking opportunities

Support services awareness

Job summary

Upstate Caring Partners in Central New York offers a six-week program designed to prepare high school students with disabilities for employment. It provides work readiness training, paid community experience, and extensive one-on-one coaching to help students build skills for real-world work and networking opportunities.

The program emphasizes practical daily living skills, disability awareness, and work ethic, serving as the first step from classroom to the world of employment and community

Qualifications

• Program designed to help high school students with disabilities develop work readiness and access to employment supports.
• Includes disability awareness, work ethic, and daily living skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide six weeks of work readiness training (3 hours every Monday).
• Coordinate paid community experience (3 hours, twice weekly) over six weeks.
• Offer 100% one-on-one coaching supports to interns.

Job description

To offer a program to high school students with disabilities to prepare them with the necessary supports and access to services as they work toward their journey to employment.

• Basic employer expectations are often foreign to people with little or no experience in the workplace. This program will provide useful skills that can be integrated into workplace and will cover work related daily living skills, disability awareness, and work ethic.
• This will be the first step out of the classroom into the real world of networking and employment!

Program Design

This Six-week Program Will Provide

• Work Readiness every Monday for six weeks for 3 hours each (totaling 18 hours)
• Paid Community Experience 3 hours 2x a week for six weeks (totaling 33 hours + last day as a celebration of completion of program.) PACWE.
• 100% one on one Coaching supports

Intern’s Incentives

• The opportunity to explore careers
• Community work experience based on interest and ability
• Paid employment
• Ability to network local business
• Knowledge of support services available
• Increase social network
• Written synopsis of vocational strengths for future career planning
• Increase self confidence
• Travel training, if applicable
• Introduction to benefits advisement

Upstate Caring Partners is the premier provider of direct-care services and programs in Central New York for individuals of all abilities and their families. If you believe in empowering people, Upstate Caring Partners is an excellent place to start or grow your career.