Career Development

Placement of our high school students at community businesses in jobs that suit their interests and abilities is another key component of a ClearWater Academy education. We support students with job coaches who help them apply strategies learned at school, offer encouragement and provide direction until independence is attained.

Heritage of Peachtree senior living community plans to offer one of our students, Sam, employment after high school. Wanda Khayat, Executive Director at Heritage, said recently in Resident Spotlights on SeniorLifestyle.com, “Clearwater Academy has a wonderful Career Development program . . . that prepares [students with special needs] for productive adulthood. . . I think Sam has had such a huge impact on our residents here . . . Sam’s suffered a stroke, so he can’t do many of the things other kids his age can, and our residents are entering a time of life when they’re unable to do all the things they used to be able to accomplish. They gather around him, help him with his tasks, and he views them as some of his dearest friends. I wish everyone could experience this.”

Weeding Serenbe

Working at Mimmo's Pizza

CWA Employee of the Month

Clothes Less Travelled

Business Partner Appreciation Lunch

Sam with Heritage Living Resident

Another student works at Chick-fil-A in Peachtree City. He restocks paper products, opens doors for customers, takes their trays, picks up trash, and refills drinks. The Operator, Mike Holmes, told us the ClearWater Academy student’s “work at Kedron Village Chick-fil-A has been an asset to our team; I have another Chick-fil-A across town, and I would like to expand ClearWater’s Career Development Program to that location as well.”

ClearWater students have worked in body shops, at local churches, Mimmo’s Pizza, Serenbe Farms, consignment shops, veterinary clinics and pet spas, just to name a few of our Career Development business partners. We have found that our students, when placed in the right environment along with the help that they need, learn important career skills that they carry with them long after they graduate from ClearWater Academy.

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