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For this reason, Peacehaven Community Farm, a sustainable living community in North Carolina whose mission is to connect adults with disabilities to the greater community, launched a job training program to assist in the acquisition of necessary skills to get a job. In the summer of 2019 , Peacehaven Community Farm piloted an early version of their program entitled Julian and Friends, which aimed to train four to five adults with disabilities throughout a 10 week program, meeting twice weekly.  \nThe curriculum in this programming centers around communication competencies, interview preparedness, and farming-related skills given the nature of Peacehaven Community Farm. Professionals from the community are invited to speak to the participants and provide mock interviews at the beginning of the 10 weeks and again at the end of the 10 weeks to evaluate growth. Each participant has a “job coach” who is their designated partner to help guide them through their activities and tasks. The participants are awarded certificates of completion at the end of the program and the hope is that they are able to obtain jobs as an end result.  \nWhat Can Speaking Centers Do?  \nSpeaking Centers are well positioned to create or be involved in this type of programming in their local communities given the goals of the job preparedness curriculum, the need for job coaches, and the nature of Speaking Center consulting. Much of the curriculum centers around day-today communication skills in addition to interpersonal job skills. Speaking Centers train their consultants to identify these key skills (or lack thereof) in speaker presentations, and these communication competencies can easily be translated into vocational skills for successful employment, such as eye contact, nodding, and smiling.  \nSpeaking Center consultants are also trained to troubleshoot in the moment and present advice in ways that best connect with the speaker. For example, at the start of the program, one of the participants was resistant to attending. He did not want to be in a structured learning environment as it was his summer break from school. Throughout the program, the job coaches learned to respond to this individual's needs and present materials in such a way that learning would be effective. As the program progressed, the participant was able to independently answer and respond to questions to evaluate what he had learned in previous sessions without prompting from a job coach. The implementation of videos and cartoons to explain the skills necessary was helpful for this particular participant in developing his skills and retaining information. In the same vein, Speaking  \nCommunication Center Journal 125  \nVol. 7, No. 1, 2021  \nCenter consultants are trained to identify and respond to the needs of the speakers that come through their centers. The adaptable nature of trained Speaking Center consultants makes this type of community engagement a natural fit to which consultants can translate their skills.  \nRecommendations  \nSpeaking Centers who participate in such programming should emphasize practical job skills, such as teamwork, problem solving, and finding support and proper motivation (Butterworth, [et. al](et. al), 2019). By emphasizing these skills that are imperative to daily independent living, participants will be better equipped to work in any environment.  \nTo prepare Speaking Center consultants who participate in this work, consultants who serve as job coaches should be equipped by their leadership team (gr","cbCaiavlBrzpV364","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiavlBrzpV364","pdf",86395,"English","# What Can Speaking Centers Do?\n# Recommendations","[{\"question\":\"What program does the article describe for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities?\",\"answer\":\"It describes Peacehaven Community Farm’s job training program “Julian and Friends,” piloted in summer 2019, designed to train four to five adults through a 10-week, twice-weekly schedule.\"},{\"question\":\"What areas does the curriculum emphasize during the 10-week program?\",\"answer\":\"The curriculum centers on communication competencies, interview preparedness, and farming-related skills, with professionals offering support and mock interviews at both the beginning and end.\"},{\"question\":\"What recommendations does the article give to speaking centers and job coaches?\",\"answer\":\"Speaking centers should emphasize practical job skills like teamwork and problem solving, while job coaches should be prepared by leadership to set expectations, guide participants toward independent work, and structure lesson plans with icebreakers, activity-based learning, and closing activities.\"}]","Communication Center Journal - Speaking Center Consultants’ Potentiality as Community Job Coaches for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities | PDF",1792088615]