Pre-Employment Transition Services are free services provided by the University of Missouri to help students ages 16-21 with disabilities explore career options and develop skills for education and employment. The services include job exploration, work-based learning experiences, counseling for post-secondary education, workplace readiness training, and instruction in self-advocacy. Activities may include mock interviews, career assessments, exploring local jobs, researching education requirements, and developing self-advocacy skills. The goal is to help students successfully transition from high school to further education and employment.

1. 1. Job Exploration
2. Work Based Learning
3. Counseling for Post-Secondary Education
4. Workplace Readiness
5. Instruction in self-advocacy to include peer mentoring
What is Pre-Employment
Transition Services?
It is supported by the Work-
force Innovation and Oppor-
tunity Act (WIOA) that was
signed into law July 22, 2014
The mission is to engage
Missouri students with
disabilities, ages 16-21, in
purposeful activities to help
them reach their education
and career goals.
Activities a student and MU Pre-Employment Transition Service provider may engage in include:
Work Based Learning Experiences:
-Coordinate mock interviews
-Identify and connectstudents to
career tech, Pathways to Prosperity,
and/or other work-based learning
programs thatare available to all
students
-Help the LEA and VR staff identify
local work experience opportunities
for students
-Facilitate a field day to a local career
center
Job Exploration:
-Missouri Connections
-Career InterestSurveys for early
planning
-Administer Career Scope-aptitude
testing
-Explore jobs/careers in the
community
-AssistSPED teacher and counselor
-Inputfor 504 or IEPs
-Inputfor Personal Plan of Study/4
Year Plans
Counseling for Post-Secondary
Education:
-Strengthen career planning activities
-Research degree or credential re-
quirements for jobs within the stu-
dent’s pathway of interest
-Identify accommodations for suc-
cess in training or academic settings.
-Educate and inform students on
shortand long term post-secondary
training
Pre-Employment Transition ServicesContact Information:
Laura Zimmer
Serving St. Charles,
Warren , and
Montgomery Counties
Phone: 636-357-9961
Email:
zimmerl@missouri.edu
Workplace Readiness Training:
-Connectstudents with local career centers
-Connectstudents and families with their local Center for Inde-
pendentLiving
-Review and discuss transportation options available for stu-
dents in getting to and from work
-Identify and measure work readiness skills
Instruction in Self Advocacy/Peer Mentoring:
-Counsel students and their families aboutempowerment
through self-determination and self-advocacy
-Work with students to identify self-advocacy skills and why
they are important
-Help students learn how to effectively lead their IEP, 504, and
other individual planning meetings.
University of Missouri-Columbia
This free service will assist students to engage in and explore the
following five areas to foster positive post-secondary outcomes: