PEER SUPPORT AND EMPLOYMENT PROJECT
Provides training and pre-employment internships to people with psychiatric disabilities so that they can provide advocacy and services to others with disabilities. This project is also available in Spanish.
When Beverly who is bi-polar came to WCIL inquiring about the Peer Support and Employment Project, she explained that she could not take a full-time job because she is presently attending school part-time and caring for her teenage son who is autistic.
However, as a divorced mother, she needed to find part-time work to help with everyday necessities. She hoped to take part in the Peer Support and Employment project to polish her job skills.
Accepted into the program, Beverly did well in the Project and 8-week internship at the Department of Public Health in San Fernando. So well, in fact, that she immediately found a 20-hour a week position as an independent living specialist. Beverly tells me the schedule works perfectly for her and her son and she no longer worries constantly about how to pay those everyday expenses.
