CERES, Calif. — Brewing, consistent and stirring adult coffee drinks for Ceres High School staff, a Bulldog Brew baristas are students with special needs.
The micro business was brought on by district expertise and staff to assistance their students with disabilities in achieving pursuit skills for life after their propagandize careers.
“I’ve seen a students grow and make large growths in their amicable skills,” pronounced Kelene Blevins, principal and module dilettante of Leaps and Bounds. “Their bargain of a operative world.”
Leaps and Bounds in Ceres is an transition module for adults ages 18-22 who have disabilities. Blevins pronounced a module by Ceres High School is meant to build autonomy among students.
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“I feel a students can have jobs once they’re over a age of 22, they only need to have that hands-on experience,” Blevins explained. “And we’ve seen a students in a Leaps and Bounds module get jobs in a community.”
In assisting commander a module dual years ago, Ceres High School special preparation clergyman Jennifer Lewis’ idea is to learn life skills and confidence to her students, and not only by creation and delivering coffee.
“We go out into a village a students learn inventory, shopping stuff, regulating dollar over skills to compensate for a things we need,” Lewis explained. “Billing, going to a bank and creation deposits, so they’re training those vital skills that they need to be eccentric when they’re older.”
That autonomy is a source of comfort for Desiree Nicastro, whose son, Dominick, is in a module and a Bulldog Brew barista.
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“That’s unequivocally critical since that is one of a biggest fears of a primogenitor with a special needs child,” Nicastro explained. “What if something were to happen? Would he be means to take caring of himself? Would he be means to survive? That’s huge. With this program, that takes a lot of that away.”
Lewis and Blevins’ idea is to take a micro business further, by creation it a district far-reaching program.
“To assistance those teachers since it’s not only a high school,” Lewis explained. “Elementary schools, youth high, pity it with them, so a kids get used to relocating around and being mobile, and afterwards that approach we embody everyone.”
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