Pre-Employment Transition Services

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00;00;02;00 - 00;00;17;13 Unknown  The Pre-employment Transition  Services program OR our pre-ETS  

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program is a collaboration between OHM  BOCES school to Career Programs and   Mohawk Valley Community College to support  students with special needs in our region.

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Pre-ETS is an extension of our School and  business alliance, where we go into schools  

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and our career Exploration specialists provide  career education in grades K through 12 to all  

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of our component districts to qualify for the  Pre-ETS program. Students must be at least 14   years of age and have a documented special  need that qualifies them for the program.

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While the School and Business Alliance  Career Exploration Specialists service   everyone in our region, Pre-ETS students  have special opportunities just for them.  

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One of the models that has been  most successful so far is our   after school career development workshops  for Westmoreland. This is our second year,   in the Pre-ETS program. And so I think  each year it does get a little easier.

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There's more of a structure and a routine to  it. Again, there's a lot of flexibility with   how you want to, make pretest work for you.  You know, what type of presentations do you  

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want to bring in and what type of people from  the community do you want to bring in? However,   I will say that the partnership with BOCES  does make it very easy, I think, for staff and   administration to put things together because  they have all the networking done for you.

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We've had culinary, we've had Vet Tech’s we've  had STEM, we've had staffing agents. We've  

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really had unlimited access to different  types of opportunities for kids. For more  

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information about Pre-ETS please contact  our program coordinator, Jillian Carew by  

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email at J carew@oneida-boces.org  or by phone at (315) 793-8577.