Learn…Experience…Adapt…Prepare
LEAP is an innovative program designed for individuals who have graduated high school and want to strengthen their overall employment and life skills in order to achieve independence. Participants benefit from job readiness training, life skill development, job sampling, and social skill instruction. The goal of this program is to produce independent young adults by helping them improve their job-related, social/emotional, and communications skills.
LEAP maintains relationships with local businesses to help participants gain real-life job experience with the aim of obtaining employment upon completion of the program. LEAP evaluates participants’ specific skills and their personal needs in order to help them create a plan for future success.
Along with on-the-job experiences, LEAP participants attend classes on a daily basis. These classes address social skills development and independent living skills. The low instructor-to-participant ratio allows personalized attention in the classroom and on the work sites. The following themes are explored in these classes and throughout LEAP.
