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So Kids SOAR Your Path To Success

So Kids SOAR (formerly known as Dreams For Kids DC) PROJECT
So Kids SOAR Your Path To Success by So Kids SOAR (formerly known as Dreams For Kids DC)

credits

Title
  • So Kids SOAR Your Path To Success
Entrant
  • So Kids SOAR (formerly known as Dreams For Kids DC)

About This Project

Summary

Your Path To Success (YPTS) is our mentorship program that provides communication, leadership, and vocational skill building for young adults with disabilities. YPTS is our answer to helping disabled young adults find personal, financial, and career independence from their parents. By empowering these individuals, we believe that not only are we enhancing their quality of life; moreover, supporting job creation. Proof is shown through our 2021 graduate launching the first SKS podcast in 2025.

Goals & Objectives

Our goal is to place young adults with disabilities in jobs within one year of graduation. It also helps us build a pipeline of talent through which we can recruit our own staff. On the macro level, this program can lead to increases in disabled employment metrics and economic growth.

Results & Impact

Over the last three years, we have been able to hire our own participants (graduates of our Your Path To Success vocational program), which provides an even more compelling argument for this program. We are now in the process of launching a podcasting company employed solely and led by graduates.

the team

Daniel Cerullo
  • Programs Manager
  • So Kids SOAR
Kierra Johnson
  • Programs Analyst
  • So Kids SOAR
Michael Simmons
  • YTPS Graduate and Podcast Creator
  • So Kids SOAR
Dustin Canter
  • PodTechs Founder and Mentor to Michael
  • PodTechs