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Smooth Transition, Inc. has created a comprehensive three phase Pre-Employment Job Rediness, Financial Literacy, and Life Skills Program that meets the needs of our teens on various levels. Our first phase is designed to get those in the program caught up in the basic life skills required for learning how to live on their own and in the world.   We offer participants a state of the art computer lab, classrooms and tutoring to ensure that they have the tools they need to progress successfully through the program.  All of our phases are accompanied by benchmarks, goals and objectives and each successive phase enjoys chances for personal empowerment, responsibilities and as they transition to higher phases, gives them the chance to celebrate their accomplishments and to share this success with others in the program.

Our linkage in the local community represent strong working relationships and include a wide range of government, nonprofit, community and local service organizations.  Our partnership with these entities help us provide effective service planning, a better coordination of program services, comprehensive and appropriate referrals, increased service quality and efficiency.  We hold regular events that draw upon the community at large and generate private support each year, through building relationships with local corporations and businesses.  Many of these relationships helps provide employment opportunities and work experience to our at risk populations, thus furthering the goals and objectives of the program.

We also offer a Pre-Employment Job Rediness, Financial Literacy, and Life Skills 10 week intensive program for students who need less one on one mentoring and want to attain the skills they need faster.  We offer this program as a credit program as well for schools and programs who qualify. Statistically our students come away from our program with much higher levels of confidence across the board. When completing our 10 week intensive program, students tested showed a 26% increase in overall career development confidence levels and a 26% increase in career problem solving confidence, a 22% increase in career planning confidence, a 22% increase in career goal setting confidence, a 27% increase in occupational information confidence and a 26% increase in career self-assessment confidence levels.  Program participants also saw an average 13.32% increase in overall perceived self-worth and value upon completion of the program.  In addition, program participants saw an average 37.5% decrease in perceived achievement barriers.  These barriers include age, physical, self-confidence, education and training, financial, time, family concerns, fear of failure, fear of success, fear of the unknown, lack of focus and fear of making the wrong decision (see graphs below).

Overall Career Development Confidence Scores After Completion Of 10 Week Program

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5 Subscales of Career Development Confidence Scores After Completion Of 10 Week Program

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Perceived Achivement Barrier Scores After Completion Of 10 Week Program

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Perceived Self-Value and Self-Worth Scores After Completion Of 10 Week Program

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Phase I – Basic Life Skills – Getting Started 
  • Catching up - graduating high school 
  • Basic computer skills 
  • Basic financial and money management skills 
  • Living on your own and getting on your feet 
  • Maintaining a home 
  • Basic transportation
  • Cultural diversity

Phase II – Career, Life and Educational Planning and Development – Setting Goals 

Vocational  Focus:

  • Needs, wants, and values assessment
  • Personality and performance assessment
  • Job satisfier assessment
  • Creating a personal goal and objectives success plan
  • Work Challenges, options and opportunities
  • Workplaces / workstyles and timestyles  assessment
  • Creating a career portfolio and personal marketing materials
  • Interviewing techniques
  • Dress for success
  • Searching for a job
  • Decisions, decisions: what’s your next move?
  • Work affects: the soul - the final analysis
  • Implementing the plan and measuring success - putting it all together
  • Interning and beginning starting a job

Educational Focus:

  • Assessing ones educational goals and objectives
  • Finding and locating the best schools and opportunities
  • Online and on campus learning opportunities
  • Creating and educational plan
  • Student loans, financing and scholarships
  • Applying for school and getting accepted
  • Getting started and reaching educational goals and objectives
  • Becoming a successful student – effective study skills

Phase III – Maintenance Through Mentorship – Staying on Track 
  • Maintaining and further development of basic life skills 
  • Maintaining and further development of the vocational plan 
  • Maintaining and further development of the educational plan

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10 Week Intensive Program
This program is designed for students who do not need long term mentorship and do not have immediate graduation challenges.  It is for teens who need to learn and understand the basic life skills they will need to successfully transition out to society upon graduation.  This ten week program has been taught as a certificate or credit program based on the needs of the students. These teens are also given the opportunity to extend their program beyond the 10 weeks to extended mentorship if desired.  This program covers:

Week 1

  • Making Decisions (critical thinking skills)
  • Making Money

Week 2

  • The Art of Budgeting

Week 3

  • Living on Your Own

Week 4

  • Buying a Home
  • Banking Services

Week 5

  • Credit
  • Credit Cards

Week 6

  • Cars and Loans
  • Consumer Awareness

Week 7

  • Saving and Investing

Week 8

  • Personality Testing and Job Fit
  • Confidence Testing and Assessment
  • Resume Basics

Week 9

  • Resume Creation
  • Interview Skills

Week 10

  • Education Research
  • Educaton Plan and Career Portfolio

"Believe - Achieve - Receive"

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6833 Indiana Ave., #203, Riverside, CA 92506