What We Do

learning how to be a good employee

We focus on employability skills. 

You can find our students:

-Receiving their daily work schedule: Custodial job, Student Store job, off-campus rotation at one of our worksites, vending machine stocking rotation, support with shopping, customer service training, handling money/deposits for the store, hands-on learning material to learn personal information, build resumes, earn food handler cards, and many other things. 

 

Students and staff working on campus for Oscar Burger Day. Every first Friday we serve the students and staff of LVA a burger every 8 seconds within an hour!

Job Skills Training/Independent Skills

PACE is a unique program for individuals with disabilities who have successfully completed an adjusted high school course of study and have a goal of seeking community employment. The main goal of the PACE program is to place young adults with disabilities into the competitive workforce. This program provides functional academic, employability, daily living, and social skills training, on and off campus environments. Trainees are placed in community employment settings as soon as they are able to demonstrate appropriate and competent skills in each of the emphasis areas. When not off campus, students spend time practicing independent living skills.  Skills focus on health, financial literacy, obtaining jobs, transportation and more! 


 

Emphasis areas:

     * Employability Skills

     * Career Exploration

     * Employment Related Activities

     * Job Seeking Skills

     * Job Shadowing

     * Interpersonal Skills

     * Travel Training (when possible)

     * Consumer Skills

     * Functional Academics

     * Self-Determination


Virtual Job Shadow

Virtual Job Shadow empowers individuals to discover, plan and pursue their dreams with our unique video-based career planning platform. Our interactive tools help students grades k-12, and higher education, and job seekers develop career paths based on choice, not chance. 

The photos show various skills that the PACE students practice throughout the year.