The Next Step program is a nonprofit that helps teenagers and young adults with disabilities transition from high school to adulthood. It focuses on developing independent living and work skills through a 4-day a week program that teaches skills like food prep, stocking, and social interaction. The program also provides resources to parents and prepares individuals for life after the program. It is funded through government grants and fundraising and uses a client management system to track participants' information.

1. Next step
program
Monday – Friday 8:00 – 4:00
The transition program from High School
graduation to adult hood for teens and young
adults with disabilities

2. Next step
program
mission
The Next Step aims to provide an informal learning
environment for individuals with disabilities and families
while promoting independence, personal choice, and
potential. The Next Step will help graduates with
disabilities transition from high school to a program where
they can learn the next step into adulthood, focusing on
increasing adult living skills and enhancing work skills.

3. Next step
program
The Next Step program would prepare the graduate with
companies to learn different skills. Some skills taught could
be food prep, stocking shelves, bagging groceries, or
simply interacting with people to learn social skills. The
program would run four days a week, and the fifth day
could be an in-house program to interact with peers and do
leisure activities

4. Next step
program
The program would also be designed to help parents get
information to help their children. For example, how to get
transportation for their child, what skills can their child do,
and prepare them for adulthood. The program would also
prepare the individual and parents for adulthood after The
Next Step program.

5. next step
program
The Next Step program is a non-profit organization which
gets its funding from Federal and State. The Next Step
program also does grant writing and fund raising for extra
curricular activities.

6. next step
program
The Next Step program is staffed with knowledgeable
staffing with a 1 staff to 3 individual ratio. It is a small
company that has a main office which is broken down into
four main areas. The program has an Human Resources,
Maintainer, Training/Hiring and Program Directors. In the
Next Step Program everyone works together to provide a
learning environment for every teen and young adult.
Below is an organizational chart for the Next Step Program

7. Senior Director-over sees director and is
responsible in conjunction with director, the
over all running of the group homes, attends
meetings
Director-Over sees the coordinator and in
conjunction with coordinator the over all
running of assigned homes. Dealing with
staff, individuals, meetings, running of
programs within budgetary needs
Manager-over sees the staff for one
particular home, responsible for individuals,
meetings, schedule and the overall running
of the group home
Staff-Taking care of individuals within a
group home setting, taking them to Drs
appointments, taking into community for
community involvement.
Training
Training Supervisor-Over sees trainer,
keeps tracks of staff trainings within the
company and responsible to update staff
records
Trainer -Responsible for training staff,
notifying staff when they are due
Maintenance
Supervisor-Supervises worker one and two,
also does maintenance on properties

8. Next step
program
The information system that is Therap. The Next
Step Program uses is Therap. This system is a
person-centered health management application
providing a solution for electronic health records
combined with optional billing, medical scheduling,
claims management and modules related to
mental health and developmental disabilities. This
system is designed for all documentation for
individuals. Everyone has their own profile which
includes an overview of them, all their health
diagnosis and what programs or guidelines they
are on

9. Next step program
Economic factors:
1. Services and policies that are non-existent or that
hinder the involvement of all people with a disability.
2. Denying individuals opportunity to participate in
federally funded programs, services, or benefits
3. Denying qualified individuals’ reasonable
accommodations to perform their job duties
Social Factors:
1. Barriers such as where people were born, grow up and
live.
2. People with disabilities are far less likely to be
employed then people without disabilities
3. People with disabilities that are 18 or older are less
likely to have graduated high school and have no skills
4. People with disabilities are more likely to experience
violence then people without disabilities

10. Budget for the
Next Step
Program
Prog Mgr/Asst. Mgr- Dir Care 3381
Program Aides 17164
Total Direct Care 20544
Other Salaries
Maintainer 222
Client Wages
400
Total Other Salaries 622
Total Staffing Cost 21167
Consultants
Consultant - OT 260
Consultant - Physical
Therapist 165
Consultant - Dietician 150
Consultant – Behaviorist 50
Total Consultants 625

11. The next
step
program evaluation
The outcome measures the Next Step company will use
are organizational outcomes, team outcomes and
personal or individual outcomes. The team works together
to improve both team satisfaction and productivity.
Personal or individual outcomes describe what a person
wants to achieve. These are realistic goals that the
person receiving care and support, and their care worker
or career can work towards. They are usually based
around supporting the individual’s well-being. Putting all
the outcomes together will help the company run
smoothly by incorporating all aspects of the team. The
Next Step Program will evaluate the staff by sending
evaluations to each guardian to fill out and send back for
review

12. Next step
program
The Next Step program serves adolescents with
disabilities ages 18 to young adulthood transition from
high school to a program dedicated to increasing their
adult skills. It is a non-profit organization specializing in
and dedicating work to adolescents with disabilities. The
Next Step explores the physical and mental disabilities
transiting to the workplace in the community. The term
disabled seems to stem from the problematic concept of
ableism, which means some people are still under the
assumption that disabled people need to be "fixed" in one
form or another. The company would promote inclusively
with respect and dignity for people with disabilities. It will
construct a better workplace culture for inclusion into
society and the community. Lastly, diversity can help
interactions with those with different viewpoints, cultures,
and perspectives.