Job Training – Supporting Schools

Our team works with each school/district to plan services to meet their students’ needs. Examples of services some select for their students include opportunities to experience job shadows, volunteer work experience opportunities, community-based work experience opportunities, internships or competitive employment, depending upon student abilities and needs.  IU13 Job Trainers may also work with students to practice interview skills and build resume writing skills. Plus, Job Trainers can work with teachers and support teams to develop these experiences to meet each student’s needs based on the student’s strengths and interests.  Our Job Trainers match these skills and interests with business partners in order to develop the best possible outcome for the student.

A key part of our team, IU13 Job Trainers supervise and support our students. Through actual hands-on demonstration and skill development, IU13 job trainers help students learn the necessary skills to become successful in a competitive employment environment. Our job trainers work very closely with our school and business partners to ensure success!

Only if they are hired by a business through our Competitive Work Program, such that they are employees and receive wages. Students participating in other job training opportunities are not paid as these students are not employees. For example, students in the Community-Based Work Experience Program engage in and complete real-life work experiences at local businesses, supported and supervised by Job Trainers; as part of this educational opportunity, participants receive monetary or non-monetary incentives to reinforce program participation and simulate the “real world” experience of time in a work setting correlating to compensation, as well as providing opportunities for development of financial literacy skills. Students in the Volunteer Work Experience Program receive work experience through volunteer opportunities at local nonprofit organizations.

IU13 Job Training Services will provide transportation during the school day. Parents are responsible for transportation for competitive employment occurring after school hours.

Yes. IU13 staff will provide services within the school and in the community.

Cost varies based on a variety of factors including how many and how often students participate, and what types of services we provide. Please contact us to discuss options and how we might design a customized program to meet your needs.

IU13 has been providing high-quality job training services for 25+ years, and we bring that expertise and experience to each school we serve. Our 60+ staff members stand ready to prepare your students to join over 2,200 other youth and adults we already serve.