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Motivated employees contribute to a company’s long-term success.
Our nationally recognized Career Design Schools helps students chart their own career path, establish career goals and become trained in high growth sectors that will lead to long term economic well-being. Our Career Design Schools are structured to teach students of diverse abilities the technical skills required to perform the tasks of a specific job.
Student gain real-world experience in their field of training through community-based internships, ensuring that they arrive at work prepared to succeed.
Graduates from our Career Design Schools learn how continuous improvement on the job enables them to climb the career ladder of advancement in their chosen field.
Evaluation, training, and individualized support ensure that every student succeeds.
Phone: 212-727-4319 | Email: careerdesignschool@fedcap.org
Licensed by the State of New York.
Annually the Fedcap School serves an average of 60-65 students. Each June, 100% of eligible students graduate with a New Jersey High School Diploma.
Students experience a diverse array of programming within our innovative curriculum (which includes Virtual Reality technology, smartboards, laptops and Wi-Fi broadband Jetpacks for remote learning), competitive Physical Education & Athletics’ programs, and our exciting vocational electives such as Building Trades, Farm to Table Greenhouse, and Therapeutic Industrial Arts and Music Recording/Engineering classes.
Our goal is to provide every student with the tools for post-graduation success, including coping skills, time management, prioritization, decision making, critical thinking and many more. We are a proud part of the Fedcap Group family and we believe in THE POWER OF POSSIBLE.
The Fedcap School serves 65 students in eight classrooms (each with a dually certified teacher and classroom aide) for 180 days during the regular school year session and 35 days in the extended school year sessions. Hours of operation are 8:30am to 3:00pm and 9:00am to 2:00pm, respectively.
Our certified staff are skilled professionals who provide a nurturing, caring environment that supports students’ educational, social and emotional growth. All staff are certified in CPR, Professional Crisis Management and Handle with Care Crisis Behavior Management.
Our therapeutic environment helps students develop greater self-awareness in a safe space.
Our students are supported by the Wrap Around Model that ensures everyone – student, family, caregivers and staff – works as a team to support and reinforce positive development in all areas of the student’s life.
Our core academic curriculum includes English, science, mathematics, social studies, world language, and physical education. Students’ Individual Education Plans (IEP) are implemented and aligned through the NJ Student Learning Standards. We use web-based programs such as i-Ready® from Curriculum Associates, a single K–12 adaptive, diagnostic web-based learning tool for reading and mathematics, and PLATO Learning© from Edmentum™.
Our diverse electives expose students to vocations that often lead to careers. Electives engage students, reflect their interests and are based on their IEPs. Subjects include art, music, engineering and recording, building trades, Black Seal low- pressure boiler operations and culinary arts.
Our internships provide students with positive role models, marketable works skills and letters of reference, and allow them to explore career interests and build professional networks. Students gain tangible and valuable experience working over 30 hours per week in a professional setting, while earning a stipend. Internship partners have included Walgreens, CVS, Shoprite, Newark Lumber, Mountainside Hospital, as well as restaurants, day care centers and automotive shops.
Our students can track their graduation requirements and timeframe through an accelerated learning tool.
Our students have the benefit of Fedcap’s signature GetReady!™ and PrepNOW™ interactive, web-based curricula, which provide work-readiness training and preparation for continuing education and employment. Our Transition Program also includes money management, banking, travel training, exposure to community resources, and information about securing housing and government benefits.
We are committed to developing leaders. Our Leadership Program sharpens communication skills and helps our students become leaders, think critically and work effectively within teams to reach pre-determined goals.
Our students participate in sports including basketball, softball, and track and field. The program helps students learn sportsmanship, teamwork, and self-discipline. The Fedcap School is a proud participant in the Essex County Special Olympics.
Our students develop a greater awareness of self and others as they learn to understand their triggers, take a time-out to regroup, learn how to respond differently to stress and acquire new, positive behaviors.
Phone: 973.677.0700 Fax: 973.677.1700
Building on its longtime leadership in vocational rehabilitation, Fedcap Rehabilitation Services provides a full range of workforce development services for individuals with disabilities from career assessment through work readiness training leading to job placement and post-employment support.
The Career Exploration and Community Based Workplace Assessment provides participants with an experience to identify realistic vocational goals. These services include: gathering an accurate, detailed description of the consumer’s educational and work history, interest/academic/aptitude evaluations, assessing workplace behaviors, detailed vocational exploration, and engaging significant people in their lives such as spouses, friends, siblings, parents, counselors or teachers.
Work Readiness assists individuals to increase their soft skills necessary to maintain employment such as appearance, time management, business etiquette, communication with co-workers and supervisors, dealing with constructive criticism and conflict resolution. Self-Advocacy for Employment enables a person to learn to advocate for their rights at the workplace through understanding the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) and methods of self-advocacy for reasonable accommodations on the job.
Job Placement is an individualized customized process to match career goals to employment. This includes job seeking assistance such as resume preparation, job interview skill development, and engaging in job search leading to competitive employment in the community.