Pre-Employment Transition Services Program (Pre-ETS)

Paid Internships are available to students that are enrolled in Morningside’s Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS). Paid Internships are set up and scheduled by Morningside. They are a minimum of 40 hours within a 12-month period. A Paid Internship are a maximum of 120 hours in a 12-month period. A student aged 16 or older is placed into a work setting in the community and is paid at least minimum wage.

Morningside’s Pre-ETS Facilitator sets up the internship and supports a student to learn the dress code, expectations, and schedule.

Pre-ETS Eligibility:

• Students who are enrolled in a secondary, postsecondary, or other recognized education program.
• Students who are between the ages of 16 through 21 
• Students who have an IEP, a 504 plan, or a documented disability. 

Please Note: Unpaid internships are an option for students if preferred for any reason.

In some settings a potential employee may need additional support to be successful on the job. This support may be in the form of a job coach who works with persons who experience disabilities by providing on-site job training assistance and long term support to the employer and employee. The job coach will help the employee learn good work habits and job skills Morningside often contracts with DVR to provide supported employment services and long term support. During this process, businesses gain reliable, dependable and hardworking employees with a better than average chance of success.

Our Business Developers start off with a meet and greet. This meeting takes around 45 minutes and it’s a chance for the client and developer to really get to know each other. Job takeaways are environment, location, size of business, sounds, etc. We talk about transportation, clothing for interviews, tasks that they would like to do and tasks they will not do. We try to know as much as we can so when in the community we are targeting the right businesses. When we feel a business meets most if not all the desired points we will take the client on a tour of the business, make introductions and if all goes well an interview. It’s very important that we make a good match for client and business. 

Work-Based Learning Activities are offered in the community and based on students interests that include Job tours, Informational Interviews, Job Shadowing. These activities help students explore their future vocational goals. 

Job Tours are offered both individually or for a group of students. Morningside’s Pre-ETS Facilitators set up tours at businesses in the community. A tour is typically 1 hour long and led by the employer or Manager of the business. Students have an opportunity to learn about the various jobs that are within the business and have the opportunity to connect with the employer and ask questions.

Morningside is able to offer transportation to and from job tours on a limited basis. Informational Interviews are offered both individually or for a group of students. Morningside’s Pre-ETS Facilitators set up the Informational Interviews at businesses in the community. An Informational Interview is typically 45 minutes to 1 hour long and is an opportunity for students to interview an employer in the community. 

Students are given suggested questions to ask but are able to ask their own and learn directly from an employer about a potential job they are interested in. Morningside is able to offer transportation to and from job tours on a limited basis. Job Shadowing is offered both individually or for a group of students. Morningside’s Pre-ETS Facilitators set up the Job Shadow opportunity at businesses in the community. Students are able to spend part of a work day shadowing and learning about a potential job they are interested in directly from an employer or employee in that same field.

Morningside is able to offer transportation to and from job tours on a limited basis. Pre-ETS Eligibility for Work Based Learning Activities:

• Students who are enrolled in a secondary, postsecondary, or other recognized education program.
• Students who are between the ages of 14 through 21 Students who have an IEP, a 504 plan, or a documented disability.