A Shot of AG
Turning Life Skills Into Real Jobs
Clip: Season 6 Episode 29 | 56sVideo has Closed Captions
Erica Matthews shows how Brewin' Hope turns life skills into real job experience.
Erica Matthews explains how Brewin’ Hope Coffeehouse creates real-world opportunities for teens and adults with autism. Participants practice preparation, customer service and other workplace skills before taking on paid responsibilities. The goal is not simply to keep them busy, but to build experience and confidence that can lead to employment throughout the community.
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A Shot of AG is a local public television program presented by WTVP
A Shot of AG
Turning Life Skills Into Real Jobs
Clip: Season 6 Episode 29 | 56sVideo has Closed Captions
Erica Matthews explains how Brewin’ Hope Coffeehouse creates real-world opportunities for teens and adults with autism. Participants practice preparation, customer service and other workplace skills before taking on paid responsibilities. The goal is not simply to keep them busy, but to build experience and confidence that can lead to employment throughout the community.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- So tell me how this works.
You have the kids with autism working?
- Yes.
- Are these older at this point?
- Right.
So at my first building I have my little one-on-ones, all the way up until like fourth, fifth grade, and then over at the Masonic we have my junior high groups, that's a social group, and then Jumpstart.
So Jumpstart is where my adults are, my high schoolers and adults, and we work on life skills, still social skills, but they also practice the coffee house.
So there is like a tier part of it.
So some of my kids do all the prep work before the coffee house.
So they may not be able to be in the crowd of people or when the coffee house is open, but they do all the behind-the-scenes work.
And then we have students that we train to do the coffee house.
And we have some kids that are on payroll.
And so, when they're on payroll, we've had them get jobs out in the community.
So we've had seven leave us to go get jobs out in the communities.
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Clip: S6 Ep29 | 1m 43s | Erica Matthews gives an inside look at programs offered through the AAMP Studio. (1m 43s)
What Autism Movement Therapy Does
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Clip: S6 Ep29 | 1m 26s | Erica Matthews explains how movement can help people with autism build key skills. (1m 26s)
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