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"Ready? S.E.T. Go!" |
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Overview
The Work Experience Program offered at Devereux Cleo Wallace is intended to provide student employees with meaningful work experiences that will provide them with opportunities for continuous growth and development of employability skills. The program will ultimately prepare our student employees for position in the community either during their course of treatment on campus or upon discharge from this program.
Student Employees complete a “Ready? S.E.T. Go!” Student Employee Training Program that offers students training in job seeking, interview preparation, employability and career growth modules. In addition, student employees complete a Careers Interest Inventory and an Independent Living Skills Assessment. Students build an individualized vocational portfolio that includes assessments and training documentation in addition to sample completed applications, resume, cover letter, job descriptions, and letters of recommendation.
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| On-Campus Work Sites |
Duke's Diner
Duke's is our student-operated restaurant located at the Westminster campus. Student employees learn all aspects of running a restaurant including, host and wait-staff customer service,food preparation, in line service, take-out orders, and account reconciliation. Duke’s is open on Tuesdays and Thursdays for staff and invited guests. HUNGRY? We appreciate the opportunity to share our diner with others. Call our Development Department, set up a time for a tour of our campus, and be our guest for lunch. (303.639.1730) |
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D’s Tees
D’s Tees, an extremely successful program teaching students valuable work skills and on the job training with silk-screening printing, design, and production equipment. Recently, the addition of commercial embroidery design and production has been added to the list of services provide by D’s Tees. Currently student employees produce over 870 t-shirts and sweatshirts a year. These items serve as Devereux Cleo Wallace (DCW) staff uniforms. |
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Cleo Joe’s
Located in the heart of the DCW Administrative building is Cleo Joe’s a student-operated coffee shop. Open Monday Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Cleo Joe’s serves a wide variety of breakfast and cereal bars, drip coffees, teas, espresso, latte, hot chocolate, and the occasional breakfast burrito.
A student employee working at Cleo Joe’s has reached a level of independence in his or her treatment plan that allows minimal supervision and maximum opportunity to demonstrate dependability and learned work ethic. |
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Nutritional Services Center
Many schools recruit students to work or help in the cafeteria or kitchen, usually the work is limited to washing dishes. At DCW, student employees also work on the serving line and learn real cooking skills as chief’s assistants. |
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Administrative Service Support Center
With over 200 employees working in administration, finance, education, etc., it is a full time job ordering, delivering, and maintaining inventory control of office supplies at DCW. Added to the list of supplies required by staff is the wide variety of hygiene needs for up to 112 residential students. The student employees who operate the Administrative Service Support Center learn valuable skills and gain an understanding of the internal workings of a business. |
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Teaching Aide
Students who have earned their high school diploma or GED are eligible to assist classroom staff in the provision of additional support for students. Working as a teacher’s aide not only provides help to younger students but also builds self-confidence and encourages older students to extend themselves to become role models. |
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Cleo’s Closet
Cleo’s Closet, our campus based clothing store, provides a valuable service for many of our students. Students who arrive at DCW with little or no clothes are excited to choose from a wide variety of donated clothes, shoes, and accessories. Cleo’s Closet also provides for the inevitable fact that children age 8 21 can grow out of everything they own in just a day or two. Since all of the items at Cleo’s Closet are free to students, they always have a choice of new and vintage apparel.
Student employees working at Cleo’s Closet learn the skills necessary to working in a retail environment including, inventory control, display marketing, and customer assistance. |
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Campus Beautification & Grounds
Working side by side with DCW staff, student employees learn basic horticulture skills. Starting with planting seeds in our campus greenhouse then watching the fruits of their labor grow and selling campus grown produce to staff at our weekly Farmer’s Market. Student employees also grow, plant, and care for all of the beautiful flowers seen around our campus, along with maintaining the lawns, trees, and shrubbery. |
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Environmental Services Center
The importance of living and working Green is part of the valuable lessons learned by our student employees working with staff in the Environmental Services Center. Students help maintain our campus through attending to refuse, recyclables, routine cleaning, and learning the safe use of household chemicals. |
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Montgomery’s Maintenance Shop
Originally Montgomery’s Garage, the program has expanded from teaching basic car maintenance to teaching marketable carpentry skills. Montgomery’s Maintenance Shop provides training in a real-world job environment, which offers skills not associated with food service, domestic or clerical skills. Students are currently learning tool safety, woodshop skills that include power-tools, installation of tile and carpet, and drywall. This carpentry program also helps students to appreciate the environment in which they live. |
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