Welcome to The Hitting the Open Road Video Series. This video is presented by
the National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth National Youth's
Action Council on Transition. YouthACT is a national initiative to get more
youth with disabilities and their allies involved as leaders who partner with
adults and organizations to improve opportunities for youth to succeed in
life.
NCWD/Youth works with youth ad teams consisting of youth and adults to
produce multiple publications including Hitting the Open Road After High School:
How to Choose Your Own Adventure to Success.
A picture of the cover of the brief is displayed here, and the link to the brief
is in the description box below. For each video in "The Hitting the Open Road Video
Series," youth leaders from YouthACT share information and tips from the
brief as well as their personal stories around transition.
Hi, I am Jamie Coghlan with Youth Access Control and I'm going to talk to you
about options while in high school.
Here, you see the "Hitting the Open Road" picture of the brief and the link is in
the description. For tips on learning to make choices that are right for you
go to page 4; and for tips on getting ready while in high school, go to page
5.
I'm gonna talk to you a little bit about my story. With my high school, we
had a program and we called it the SAIL Program but it was really called
Springfield Apartment Independent Living Lab
and with that program,
I took a college class on a college campus. It was a
language arts class. It showed me what
college class was about, how I would learn in college, and how it was
different than high school. Through the program I got a
lot of job training. I knew I wanted to work with kids for the
longest period of time. With my job training, I ended up working with a
daycare and I also got to work with my old elementary school.
Within my elementary school, I work with two classes. I worked with a
little second-grade class and I worked with a Special-Ed class.
In the Special-Ed class, they were all different ages and it was
nice to see how other people learn.
While being in high school
in the program, we're able to stay until we're 21 so I was there until I was 21.
In the program that was in the high school, there
was a room built to look like it was an
apartment. Here, you learn a lot of skills that you would learn if
you were living on your own. For me, I learned how to cook. I learned how
to clean. I learned how to manage money. With cooking, for me, I knew how
to cook. I just didn't like to because I didn't like use the oven. I didn't like
the heat on my hand, it felt really weird. With learning
the skill, we knew we would cook so we would each
take turns putting things in the oven and taking things out. I got better at it
and now I'm okay with doing it. With laundry, I know how to do laundry but my
parents are always there to do it so I haven't had to do it.
Being in the program shows you that you don't have your parents
forever so if you want to live on your own,
you have to learn how to do it. I learned how to get better at that.
Managing money was a big thing that I am very thankful for
learning because when we would cook, we would go to the grocery store
and we buy what we needed. We would learn how much money everything
cost. We would each
take turns going up to the cashier and buy things so we had to
learn how much money we needed and how much money we could use. My
feelings, at first, about the program
were that I wasn't too happy with it. I was gonna end up being a high school
until I was 21 and that was not my favorite thing to hear.
At first, I didn't like it.
But while being there, I ended up learning it was really good. I
was happy. The support that I received from my mom also helped me out.
She came to my IEP meetings all the time with me. Also, several of
my teachers who I was close with came to my IEP meeting and that was a big
thing. My friends encouraged me to advocate for a lot of things. To
say how I felt about the program because, at first, I
didn't want to say anything. But they wanted to know how I felt about it
so the program could get better.
For tips on getting ready while in high school, advocate for
accommodations that you need in high school because
advocating for accommodations that you need, you will learn how you
learn and you will learn what you need for you get to to your goals.
Definitely attend your IEP meetings regularly and if you have a
chance to start in middle school, take that chance!
Don't wait until you're in high school to start going. Definitely take that chance.
I started in 8th grade and I learned a lot when I started going.
I learned what I needed to learn better and I learned what my goals were.
You definitely want to know your goals before you do anything because if
you don't know your goals then you don't know what you're going for.
Invite those who support you.
with your IEP meetings like teachers, family, and friends. Support
systems are the best. Also, while you're in high
school, talk with your counselor about other options. If you don't
want to go to college, there's other options out there for you. Talk with
your counselor regularly. I would start in 9th grades, your freshman
year, and continue until you're almost out of high school because that's
best thing. You'll understand it better every year, you'll
get better at it, and you'll understand it more and maybe you'll even
learn more. Once you learn your
options, go to a teacher you are close with and talk with them about
the options and see what they think because getting feedback is a good thing.
Also, the first tip that's in Hitting the Open Road brief is on page 5,
if you want to learn more about that.
For tips on deciding what options are best for you while in high school,
consider options with an open mind. At first I didn't do that.
I didn't consider this program I was in with an open mind. I was like, "Nope,
not happening. I'm ending school when everybody else in my grade ends it. I'm
not going back to school." I didn't think about it but it
was the best thing in the world. I should have really considered it with an
open mind. Consider other options like if you want a job
instead of going to college, consider everything that's out
there for you. Don't think, "Oh, I have to go to college then I have to get
a job." Not everybody does it. You have to consider all your options
and think about people and resources that can help you achieve your goals and
what you need in high school to get ready. Consider everything
all options. Consider everybody you have. All the
support and how they can help you. The 2nd and 3rd tips are also in
Hitting the Open Road brief on page 4
Here we have the Hitting the Open Road picture.
Tips on learning how to make the best choices are for you, see page 4.
Tips on getting ready while in high school, see page 5.
Thanks for watching!
YouthACT is an initiative of the National Collaborative on Workforce and
Disability for Youth led by the Institute for Educational Leadership.
This video was produced under a cooperative agreement funded by the U.S.
Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy. The
opinions contained in this video are those of the grantee contractor and do
not necessarily reflect those of the US Department of Labor. For more information
about NCWD/Youth, visit www.NCWD-youth.info. The Institute for
Educational Leadership logo is that bottom left and the National
Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth logo is at bottom
right.
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