He works in the lunchroom, helping students with catsup, for instance, and cleaning tables. Renee Georgensen, who is helping prepare the lunch for which Tabitha is setting the table, beams as she talks about her job at the Goodwill store. Like all the students, she works with a job coach. Some job coaches provide constant supervision on the job, others check in with the student a couple times a week. The apartment program has four such coaches.
Students get a taste of the working world from the moment they arrive for class at the apartment.
They punch a regulation time clock. They can buy small toys and other items from the apartment store, or save up for more expensive item, such as a high school sweatshirt. They come, go and stay on different schedules. Usually one crew, including two teachers, is eating, while a second group arrives and begins to work in the kitchen preparing their own lunch. There are many more students who could benefit for the home-like setting.