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2012 Presentations!
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2011 Tip Grant award list Lake Oswego
School District Contact: Terry Shlaes Mocha Math Project The Mocha Math Project will assist students in using real-life math skills to operate a student run coffee/drink
business at Lakeridge High School. Bandon School
District Contact: Penny Wellbaum Bandon High School Student Skills
Transition Center/ BHS Bistro This program supports students in developing life skills that
will benefit them in the future. The students learn teamwork and cooperation though canning, meal planning/preparation
and sewing. The transition center packages and sells weekly meals, canned goods, and gift baskets.
The transition skills class also designs, sews, and donates baby quilts and blankets to a local pregnancy resource
center. Salem Keizer Public Schools Contact: Monica Nicodmus Real Hawaiian Ice YTP
students will have the opportunity to interact with a team, supervisor, and customers. This program will
to help promote customer services skills, community involvement, organization, and real life work experience and build skills
to be successful in future employment. Irrigon
School District Contact: Lynn Allport Doggie Treat Business This small school based business will sell dog treats at school events and in the community.
This program will help students to increase cooking, math, communication, job, and life skills. Students
will have the opportunity to plan, prepare, pacakage, and sell their own product in order to financially aid in the support
the school’s life skills program. Springfield
Public School Contact: Kevin Hillman Transition Garden Project The Transition Garden Project is dedicated to providing transition age (18-21) special education students
the opportunity to build work skills, ethic, and learn agricultural education. The grant will assist in
providing a greenhouse that will allow the production capacity to be a viable supplier to Springfield Public Schools food
service program. The addition of the greenhouse will provide for year round work experience and food production.
Brookings-Harbor School
District Contact: Michelle Prudden Brooking-Harbor
School Spirit and Supply Store This student store will be located on campus at Brooking-Harbor
High School and will sell school supplies along with other school-spirit items. This project will assist
students an opportunity to learn valuable employment related skills such as money management, marketing, inventory control,
and retail sales. This school based business will also partner with the booster club and YTP program to
supports students with disabilities working with their non-disabled peers to support student cooperation, inclusion, and acceptance.
High Desert ESD Contact: Sue Hayes Conversational Transitional Planning Tools This program will be used in providing an online training focusing on Conversational Planning for students
who lack skills in the areas of time management, prioritizing, starting and finishing, evaluating work progress, and overall
lack of ability in the area of judgment and decision making (executive functions). This will assist the
student in developing a person centered plan and help to increase their awareness about themselves, their potential, and limitations
using a non-confrontational conversational approach. Rainer School District Contact: Laurie Kash
School-based Businesses- balloons, greeting cards, jewelry, and dog soap-making. This newly established YTP site is interested in growing a developing school based business program.
This program provides vocational training to help students design, build, sell, and deliver products at school and
to local neighborhood businesses. This program will help students with disabilities to develop vocational
skills and increase their self-esteem.
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