Pathways Receives Kessler Foundation Grant
Pathways thanks the Kessler Foundation
for a grant being used to prepare and transition children with
disabilities at the age of 12 from our Learning
Through Life program to a more advanced
program where they receive specialized,
intensive employment training. During the
2008-2009 school year, this program has been providing
training in job readiness, technology, and basic
office skills, and opportunities to develop small entrepreneur
businesses. The young adults
with special needs partner with mentors ages 16
and above that have been trained and hired
as job coaches. These job coaches and the young
adults work as teams under the direction of
the class instructor and are given actual work
projects. When the children with disabilities
reach age 16 and are ready to enter a more
formalized employment environment, Pathways will
begin to transition them into actual job
settings. Their job coaches will accompany
them to work sites and provide support as
needed. Click
here to visit our Learning Through Life page.
Again, we thank the Kessler Foundation for
their generous and continued support of our
programs!! You can visit them at
www.hhkfdn.org.
Pathways Awarded Grant from Autism Speaks
On December 20, 2007, Autism Speaks
awarded Pathways for Exceptional Children a grant to help to
expand our “Magic of Reading” after-school
program, which was initiated in July 2007
in collaboration with the Montville Township
Recreation Department and Library. Pathways
brought in consultants to provide eight weeks of
specialized training for teachers in the program
on reading techniques specifically geared for
children on the autistic spectrum, plus
additional strategies designed to enhance the
development of skills for all children attending
the program. This grant not only helped us to
expand our recreation and mentoring programs in
Montville Township, but also allowed us to build
a satellite in Summit, New Jersey, which received funds to start
baseball, tennis, arts & crafts,
life skills, and social games & activities
programs. The
grant has also helped to pilot
mentor and adult sensitivity
trainings modeled after Pathways in other
communities throughout New Jersey, and will give
us the capacity to offer services in communities
closer to their homes. For information on Autism
Speaks, visit
www.autismspeaks.org
Pathways’ “Magic of Reading” Program
Receives Grant Funding from Two Foundations
Pathways’ Magic of Reading program has continued
to grow since its inception in July 2007. Our
goal is to establish a state-of-the-art reading
program where children with special needs and
children struggling to read can gain the
intensive early intervention they need before
they begin to fail. The program is designed to
make learning to read a fun and motivating
experience and to give parents the insight they
need to help their children at home. We would
like to thank the Linda Bunis Haller Foundation and the Morgan Stanley
Foundation for their grants, both of which
have been designated to this program.
Click here to
visit our Magic of Reading page.
Pathways Receives Grant
from
Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation
