Individuals age 18 & up with Intellectual Differences, this is your track to meaningful employment and learning job skills!
Individuals age 18 & up with Intellectual Differences, this is your track to meaningful employment and learning job skills!
At the Mingus Job Accelerator, we strive to exceed your expectations by breaking barriers and changing the game. If you are an Adult age 21 and over with a developmental intellectual difference keeping you from gaining meaningful employment, we are here to provide on-the-job training and assist you in finding employment in your community. We offer training in several job settings including a restaurant, boutique, coffee bar and animal rescue care. Program options include year round Daily Training Sessions. Sessions can be a one to four weeks in succession. We not only provide valuable training, we pay an hourly wage for up to four hours of training each day depending on your session and job set. If you are 18 to 20 years of age, come experience your first taste of being in the work place! Do a little bit of all the job skills we offer, summer 2020 only for ages 18 to 20 years.
Our Daily Session is a Monday to Thursday, 7:30am to 3pm program. The Cost is $250 per week. Transportation is provided for a nominal charge from a central location in Fort Worth, Aledo and Weatherford.
The future Residential Session will begin on Sundays at 3pm and end on Saturdays at 11am. Residents live in our tiny houses and must be capable of attending to their basic daily needs including the ability to awaken to an alarm and do their own laundry independently. The Residential Session is $500 per week. Residential participants will be responsible for their own transportation to and from the session.
Participants are allowed to sign up for a minimum of one week to a maximum of four weeks in succession. A $150.00 one time Annual Application Interview and Vocational Assessment Fee is charged for all participants.
From a single Italian immigrant to a Mother with a dream, a family property, now owned by a non-profit is set to become the most unique on-the-job vocational training concept for adults with IDD (Intellectual developmental differences) in Texas.
The Mingus Job Accelerator (MJA) is a vocational training business created by Stand Up, LLC and a non-profit organization, The Each & Everyone Foundation. These two entities have joined forces to create an environment for vocational on-the-job training for adults with IDD (Intellectual Developmental Differences) and other learning or physical differences. These differences often make entering the job market more challenging. MJA is an environment where specialized training gives individuals practical work experience in the real world.
Within the 2.2 acre setting of eight tiny houses, vegetable gardens, a boutique, a farm-to-table restaurant and coffee bar, and a community-run animal shelter, MJA will teach a wide variety of job skills targeted towards the needs and abilities of its participants. AND, with pay for up to four hours daily!