Teens and Adults with Down Syndrome Learn Career Skills in GiGi's Playhouse Rochester Ready, Set, Work Program
WHAT
GiGi's Playhouse Rochester's Ready, Set, Work program provides career skills to teens and adults with Down syndrome in an "office-like" setting.
Today participants will assist the program's partner, Pride Plumbing of Rochester's marketing department with day-to-day tasks helping them acquire real-life work experience.
Participants get hands-on experience in what it's like to work on a consistent schedule, clock in and out of work using timesheets, dressing professionally, taking a 10-minute "break," and performing tasks to learn new skill sets and build their own resumes.
Other companies interested in partnering with GiGi's in the program may contact: Donna Rush drush@gigisplayhouse.org (585) 563-7487.
WHEN
Today, Tuesday, August 17, 2021
3 to 4 p.m.
WHERE
GiGi's Playhouse Rochester
372 N Goodman Street
Rochester, NY 14607
CONTACT
Meghan Cacchione, Marketing & Communications Manager
Pride Plumbing of Rochester
(585) 271-7150
About GiGi's Playhouse Rochester
GiGi’s Playhouse Rochester is a non-profit organization that serves people with Down syndrome from prenatal diagnosis to adulthood focusing on achievement, belief and confidence. Open since April 2017, it is part of GiGi's Playhouse network of 53 Down Syndrome Achievement Centers and growing across the United States and Mexico — the only network of its kind that provides free, life-changing therapeutic, educational and career training programs for 30,000+ individuals of all ages.
Through free programs and the Generation G Campaign for global acceptance, GiGi’s helps maximize opportunities for daily achievement and lasting acceptance. The program helps advance a vital social impact goal by showing the world what individuals with Down syndrome are capable of achieving as students, co-workers, volunteers, friends, and valued members of their communities.
For more information about free programs, volunteerism, impact partnerships, events, and the many ways to support GiGi's Playhouse Rochester families visit: gigisplayhouse.org/rochester.