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| The mandatory "presents at the kitchen island" photo |
She is in a "super senior" year of high school, meaning that she is still under the age of 21 and part of the school district, but is beyond her normal senior "graduating" year. She marched with her class at graduation, but will spend the three subsequent years in job training and other life skills work before transitioning out of the school district and into the Delaware County program.
Rather than going to the high school building, she is picked up by a bus and taken to an apartment rented by the district. Job coaches are based in this apartment, and work with a dozen or so kids to develop life skills such as cooking and cleaning, laundry, and shopping. Several days a week, each of the kids is transported to a job site where they work on job skills. Julia has worked at at least 7 or 8 different places, trying a number of different types of work, and is building toward the day when she will have some sort of job placement, with assistance, to continue on in life.
It's a great program, and a good step forward into an uncertain future.
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