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Transition Services

Center for Companies That Care provides legally required Transitions Services to college-bound Freshmen through Seniors in the form of:

  • Instruction and Workshops
  • Experiential Learning
  • Goal-setting
When the full program is delivered to high school students, they are entitled to on-going support through college.  A la carte services are also available, but do not include on-going college support.

Transition Services focus on skill building and information dissemination throughout the four years in which it is delivered.

Instruction and Workshops

  • Skill Building
    • Adult Living Skills
    • Communication Skills
    • Social Skills
    • Self-advocacy Skills
    • Professional Skills
  • Legal Rights
    • Laws protecting students and adults with disabilities
  • Navigating College
    • Procedures for disclosing a disability
    • Transitions to College Workshops
  • College Advising
    • College recommendations consistent with grades, scores, student’s interests and services needed
    • Confidentially research specific services and individual colleges without identifying student
    • Selecting a “best fit” college from among acceptances

Experiential

  • 3-Day College Bus Trip
  • College Simulation for College-Bound High School Seniors
  • Internship
  • Job Shadowing Days
  • Career Fair
  • Community Service
  • College Fair and March to College

Objectives for post-secondary education and/or employment

  • Assessment of student’s strengths, needs, preferences and interests
  • Post high school goal setting

Additional Services

  • Resource and Referral
  • Preparation of Transition section of IEP
  • Tracking and counseling student through college

KICKstart College Tournament

Join us on August 7, 2016 for a community kickball tournament.

Register here.

 

 

 

When you register, you will need to confirm your agreement with this waiver.

Waiver and Release

I acknowledge that playing kickball is a potentially hazardous activity and that I should not play unless I am medically able and properly trained. I agree to abide by any decision of a game official or staff member in respect to my ability to safely participate. Furthermore, I understand there are risks inherent in my participation, and I assume all such risks associated with playing in this event, including but not limited to: falls, contact with other participants, and the effects of the weather (including high temperatures). Having read this waiver and in consideration of my entry, I hereby for myself, heirs, executors, and administrators waive any and all claims I may have for damages against Center for Companies That Care, George Westinghouse College Prep,  all sponsors and individuals associated with the event, their representatives and successors, and assignees for any and all injuries suffered by me in connection with this event, including pre- and post- kickball activities. I hereby grant permission to Center for Companies That Care to use my name, photographs, videotapes, motion pictures, and any other record of my participation in this event for any purpose.

 

You (or your parent/guardian if under age 18) must agree to this question to participate in the annual Center for Companies That Care’s Kickball Tournament.

  1. I understand and agree to the waiver and release
  2. As the parent/guardian, I understand and agree to the waiver and release

 

Signature: ________________________________________

 

Name of Parent/Guardian:___________________________

Donation Links for AIM High Students

2016 Choices Conference

Register Here

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The Future of Diversity: Bleak or Bright?

 

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Galleria Marchetti

825 West Erie Street, Chicago, IL

Breakfast with Panel Discussion and Debrief

Getting Degreed ~ Obstacles to College Graduation

Reaching Career Heights ~ The Essential Skills to Cultivate, Affects of Biases/Stereotypes

Going the Distance ~ Executives’ Responsibility to Bring Others Along

Crossing the Finish Line ~ Leaving a Legacy

Panelists

Ce Cole Dillon, Chief Operating Officer, Student Loan 411 LLC

Darrin Greene, CEO and Country Manager US, Applus+ Technologies, Inc.

Rayne Bozeman, Advanced Doctoral Student, Loyola University Chicago

Rusty Cohen, Executive Vice President, MAGID Glove

Executive Leadership Forum 10:30AM – 12:30PM

  Breakfast followed by our highly-rated Executive Leadership Forum for Vice Presidents and above

Please register no later than September 21, 2016.  Registration fee on day of event will be $25 more. 

This program is valid for 1.5 PDCs for the SHRM-CPSM and the SHRM-SCPSM.

 

Register Here