Find out about work-based activities. Families must be aware of the work-based learning options offered by the school such as internships, job shadowing, cooperative education, vocational programs, career academies, and apprenticeship. Moreover, family members can get more active in work-based learning activities by exploring new ways to involve employers who have demonstrated success in training and employing youth with disabilities. Levels of involvement in work-based activities range from assisting employers in the technical support to adapt jobs and worksites, to encouraging other employers to participate in the school to work transition process. Family involvement represents an untapped resource that informs the process and can help to shape school to work systems.
Parents are a critical link to school to work partnership at all levels.
Serious consideration should be given to the involvement of families in the planning, developing, and implementing phases of school to work programs.