Pre-ETS
What is Pre-ETS (Pre-Employment Transition Services)?
Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) provides vocational training, experiences, and opportunities that promote awareness, exploration, and preparation for life after school.
Who is eligible for Pre-ETS?
Students between the ages of 14-21 (up until their 22nd birthday) with disabilities, who are enrolled in high school or post-secondary education. To participate in Pre-ETS, please click here to fill out a referral form.
Students who will benefit from Pre-ETS are:
- Eager to learn about the workforce and explore potential careers
- Ready to build skills necessary to succeed in the workforce
- Excited to learn about themselves
- Interested in gaining independence and challenging themselves
- Prepared to gain work experience in a way that matches their skillset and experience level
All learners and experience levels are welcome. Triangle will make accommodations to material and training methods as needed. A student who is in need of additional support to participate successfully or safely should make further accommodations known during their intake interview, or when enrolling in a training series.
Click here to learn about the five Pre-ETS training components!
Pre-ETS are made up of five components: Work Readiness Training, Job Exploration Counseling, Self-Advocacy Training, Counseling in Post-Secondary Education, and Work-Based Learning Experiences.
Work Readiness Training: The soft skills needed to be successful at work, maintain employment, and advance in the workplace. Our work Readiness Training is broken into 3 tiers:
- WRT Tier 1: The soft skills you need to be successful on the job: communication, professionalism, etc.
- WRT Tier 2: The skills needed to land the job: resume writing and interviewing
- WRT Tier 3: The soft skills needed to maintain employment and advance: navigating the job, scheduling, workplace etiquette, conflict resolution
Job Exploration Counseling: Self-exploration in relation to work and the labor market, as well as goal setting and vocational planning
Self-Advocacy Training: Learning the importance of advocacy and how to professionally advocate for oneself. The place advocacy holds at work.
Counseling in Post-Secondary Education: Focused on the major differences between High School and Higher Education and teaches the soft skills necessary for success in a more independent environment: settings and respecting boundaries with those unfamiliar, time management, problem solving and decision making.
Paid internship experiences: students appropriate for these experiences need to be able to produce independent, consistent standards of work with limited support. Experience usually total around 40 hours.
Additional work-based learning experiences consist of job shadows, volunteer days, company tours, and informational interviews.
Pre-ETS Training Calendar:
Students can engage in Pre-ETS in two ways, through after school training series and career camps. Click here to view our calendar and sign up for a series or career camp here.
Training series are provided after school, online from 3:30-5:00pm. There will also be community-based, in-person trainings held after school throughout the year. These will be advertised and added to our training calendar as they are scheduled.
Career Camps are provided on school vacation weeks and over summer vacation. They consist of 4- or 5-day training, 5 hours a day, over a week. Career camps are meant to empower, expose, educate, and challenge students, helping to prepare for life after school and the workforce. Students should leave with more confidence and awareness whether they are soon to leave school and enter the workforce or are thinking about work for the first time.
To be alerted of upcoming training series, career camps and other opportunities make sure you are on our email distribution list! Click here to sign up.
Pre-ETS are provided by Triangle in partnership with and funded by MassAbility.
Contact
Corey Grant – click to email
Chief of Workforce Initiatives
Phone: 339-666-4067