Employment Transition Center
Featuring a state-of-the art commercial kitchen, computer lab, life-skills room, and resource library, The Arc’s Employment Transition Center was designed to enhance the employment skills of the individuals we serve: adults & high school students with special needs from throughout Southeastern Connecticut.
Through the use of this newly renovated building, we will offer culinary arts training in the areas of safe food handling and kitchen equipment knowledge, including the use of a six burner gas stove and convection ovens. In addition to culinary training, our new center will offer the tools necessary to acquire computer and office skills. Individuals will build custom résumés, acquire basic data entry skills, and learn the techniques of internet research.
Our program remains committed to providing individuals with everyday life skills, including those skills focused on time management, cooking, budgeting and banking, and grooming and hygiene. The Center’s resource library will serve as a communal gathering space to foster a group learning environment.
It remains our top priority to place individuals in community jobs that are of interest to them. It is our hope that this new center will provide these individuals with inspiration and skills for success in the workplace. The Arc also provides transportation and other supports as needed to this population.
For More Information Contact:
Jon Maderia, Employment Coordinator
jmaderia@thearcnlc.org
Kim Blair, Director of Employment
kblair@thearcnlc.org
Telephone: 860.449.1529
Fax: 860.449.1558
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