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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, April 17, 2017 Page 2 I just wanted to give you a quick overview on the CEVEC program. The Cuyahoga East Vocational Education Consortium was established in 1980. At that time, there were 14 students that were part of the program in 14 districts. C.irrently there are 18 school districts that are members of the consortium. Mayfield City School District is the fiscal and administrative agent for this program. Our 18 member districts, most are from Eastern Cuyahoga County but we actually go as far as Streetsboro and Willoughby. They send high school aged students to us with disabilities. We serve approximately 300 students every year in our program. We have a rather large talented staff. We are actually located right down the street behind Mayfield Middle School where there used to be a bus garage that in 2011 was converted into a beautifu122,000 square foot building. That's our center, our hoine, where we have 22 coordinators who are teachers and 40 job trainers that help us with our mission. We use what is called a place in train model which with our particular population we zound it is best to instead of teach a skill in a classroom setting and then expect that student to use that skill in the real world if you will, we actually teach the skill in a real world. It's called the place in t.Tain model. We focus on employability skills. Currently, we have over 100 school business partnersl-?ips. Places like Hillcrest Hospital where our students go for either a half day or full day, in most cases not paid internship experiences to develop their resumes and their skills. Progressive Insurance has been a long time partner with our program; the variety of campuses in the area. Heinen's has also been a partner of ours. These are just a few of the programs that partner with us where our studezits go for their training. Just a little bit about our program. In 2003, my advisor said, you know, you guys do agreat job of teaching kids how to be employees and how to be good workers. Our students are gradu.ating and they are not graduating with the skills needed to be independent. Things like cooking and cleaning and budgeting and community safety and home safety and things like that. We started our program after a lot of work. Our first few years we were at Hilltop Village Retirement Community in Euclid and then in 2010 we had the good fortune of being able to acc;Taire the home at 6532 White Road to use for our community living skills program. From this painf:, I ain going to tum it over to Jen who is going to tell you more specifics about the program. TPn RneP Our job is to help our students become more uidependent whether their plan is to live with their families for the rest of their lives or to live on their own. We just want them to be more contributing members to their household. What we do is we teach them everything you do in your home, clean, we work a lot on social skills, have fun. We work on our money skills. We learn how to tip at a restaurant. We go to Heinen's once a week and shop. We learn how to pay bills. All those important money skills. We teach them how to balance a checkbook. • We access the community. We go to Mayfield Library. We go to Home Depot. Right now at Home Depot we are learning how to make a table. We go to the Metroparks. We are one block from the Metroparks. We go to the gym. We visit the hospital and learn how to appropriately visit someone in the hospital. We learn how to ride RTA. We also learn kitchen skills, menu plaruiulg, cooking, table manners, personal care, how to iron, how to sew. We have Officer Girbino come in and tallc about fire safety.