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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
Our Services are available in the following areas:

San Diego (North)

  • Rancho Santa Fe
  • Del Mar
  • Poway
  • Encinitas
  • Carlsbad
  • Carmel Valley

San Diego (South)

  • La Jolla
  • Clairemont
  • Downtown
  • Coronado
  • El Cajon
  • Chula Vista

Orange Country

  • Newport Beach
  • Dana Point
  • Irvine
  • Laguna Beach
  • Laguna Niguel
  • San Clemente
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FREE SPRING FLING EVENT in San Diego

[Public Event] - Xcite Steps Annual Spring Fling will be held at Fletcher Cove park in Solana Beach. This is a wonder...

5/19/2012 event time 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
FREE SPRING FLING EVENT FOR FAMILIES in

[Public Event] - Xcite Steps Annual Spring Fling will be held at Fletcher Cove park in Solana Beach. This is a wonder...

5/19/2012 event time 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
FREE SPRING FLING EVENT FOR FAMILIES in San Diego

[Public Event] - Xcite Steps Annual Spring Fling will be held at Fletcher Cove park in Solana Beach. This is a wonder...

5/19/2012 event time 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
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