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East of
Colchester
Public Schools
theTransition
RiverAcademy
Agenda
1 Introduction
2 Program Mission and Vision
3 Our Goals
4 Program Success
5 Testimonials
6 Any Questions?
We are East of the River
Transition Academy! We are a collaborative transition
program between East Haddam
Public Schools and Colchester
Public Schools.
Founded in 2019
Mission
This community–based program provides real life
experience for students. Our young adults learn
skills in the areas of self determination, self
advocacy, employment, post-secondary and
independent living.
Vision Preparing our students for
adulthood through real life
experiences. Coaching our
young adults through a
soft-launch into adulthood.
Program Goal 1 Goal 2
Goals!
Build employment Increase
skills for successful independent living
careers skills so we can be
as independent as
possible
Goal 3 Goal 4
Learn and practice Build our post-
social skills in order secondary skills to
to have meaningful promote life-long
relationships learning
Employment
We have four work rotations per year.
We work at a site for seven weeks. At
the end we participate in a mock
interview.
Our work sites
Mohegan Sun
Flour Girl Bakery & Cafe
Colchester Senior Center
Incord
CrossFit
Ace Hardware
Toyota of Colchester
Noel’s
Mark’s United Auto Parts
Snap Fitness
Mo’s Donut & Cafe
Family Pizza
CVS
Walgreens
Colchester Cooperative Nursery School
Colchester Confederated Church
Cold Spring Farm
Purring Pottery
Eagle Manufacturing
Tree Fort Naturals
2 Wrastling Cats
Johnson Marine Hardware
I-Park
Work Site Success!
Interview Day!
Independent
Living
We work hard to increase our
independence.
Independent
Living
Independent
Living
Social and Community Skills
We build relationships and social skills.
We work on accessing our community.
Social and Community Skills
Post Secondary
Self Advocacy
Self Determination
Communication
Goal Setting
Thank you to our
our partners!
Thank you to our
our partners!
A Student
Testimonial
A Student
Testimonial
Parent & Family
Testimonials
This program provides invaluable
tools and processes for our special
“ Through the transition needs children to transition to
program, we learned that with adulthood. The world is still not
kind and state services are spotty
the proper focus and work, our
at best, this is the bridge that
son can do anything. I never provided our son to advance. He
thought he would go to college would not be where he is today
or drive and he is doing both! “ without the program and our
collaboration with the program.
-Parent of a 2022 Graduate
-Gina
Thank you to our Board of Education
for supporting our program!