Jr Counselor Job Training

In San Diego, parents of teens who experience special needs are faced with challenges to find appropriate job skills training opportunities for their teens. Another challenge is finding a job opportunity with an environment that won’t scare them away from wanting to work and be intimidated by all of the struggles they may face during their journey. Xcite Steps, a special needs mentoring organization, offers a junior counselor job program for these teens to transition them smoothly into the working world and get them prepared for future job positions. They provide job skill training opportunities in a coached but natural and fun environment!

The Junior Counselor Summer Job Training Program is an opportunity for teens who experience mild cognitive disabilities such as aspergers, high functioning autism, PDD-NOS, MDD, CDD, social anxieties or minor disabilities to learn the skills they need to be successful in a job environment. Being a Junior Counselor teaches responsibility, being a positive role model, punctuality, listening skills, multi-tasking skills, following directions and working with others. They will need to assist in watching over and interacting with the kids, be a good role model and follow through on tasks. Each junior counselor will will go through an interview and job training process in a fun environment with a job coach. They will all receive a paycheck and a progress report after each session to help them learn from their job experiences, rating their performance, quality of their work and building their confidence for the next session. This is a huge growing experience for these teens and it has been very successful in past summers!

POSTED: Tuesday, October 5, 2010