We offer employment placement, resume writing workshops, one-on-one vocational coaching, employment classes, and job coaching. We sincerely believe that every single person who desires an opportunity for competitive wage employment should be given a chance to achieve their goals.
Transitioning from high school to the real world is hard for anyone but can seem especially daunting for students with disabilities and their families. Working within the schools and with the state, we provide instruction in self-advocacy, workplace skills, applying to jobs and colleges, and much more! Ask your teacher about Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) at your school.
Bridge to Employment in Service & Tourism (B.E.S.T.)
Bridge to Employment in Service and Tourism (B.E.S.T.) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory provides job exploration, pre-employment training, job skills development, and professional mentorship to adults with disabilities and barriers to employment. Sessions occur 3 times a year.
Interns participate in 16-week internship, three or five days a week at ORNL. Each day, interns receive at least 2 hours of learning lab instruction on vocational, social, and independent living skills and 5 hours of work-based learning as an intern at a site at the laboratory or other community partner.
If you’re interested in being a host site for a B.E.S.T. class of interns, download the manual on the left and email instructor@bestknoxville.org.
Please contact Scot Bellavia at sbellavia@breakthroughknoxville.org for more information.
Project SEARCH
Project SEARCH at the University of Tennessee Medical Center is a licensed replication of a nationally recognized program developed at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital to provide adults with developmental disabilities with education and experiences to learn skills needed for successful employment.
Adults accepted into Project SEARCH participate in nine month internships, five days per week, at UTMC. Each day participants receive at least one hour of classroom instruction on vocational, social, and independent living skills and approximately four hours of training as an intern at a worksite in the hospital.
Now Accepting Applications for 2025
Deadline: Friday, October 18, 2024
Fill the application out online at the link below!