Adult Development

The Adult Development Program (ADP) is entirely community-based, using person-centered planning to develop employment and other life skills for the persons served.

Pathways to Employment

Our “Pathways to Employment” component helps our persons served find and keep employment and volunteer positions in the community. Persons served are supported by job coaches 100% of the time, both at work and during leisure activities.

Job sites for persons served include restaurants, golf courses, retirement communities, retail establishments, pet hotels, grocery stores, gyms, and recreation facilities.

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Community Integration

These experiences are designed to build social connections, promote independence, and strengthen safety awareness in real-world settings. Whether exploring local parks, visiting libraries, or participating in volunteer opportunities, participants develop essential life skills while enjoying inclusive, enriching experiences.

Employment Opportunities

Vocational Visions partners with businesses to obtain direct placement opportunities. We offer onsite job coaching to facilitate the success of our persons served. This coaching is at no cost to the employer or employee. Coaching is 100%.

Paid Internship Program (PIP) Opportunities

Vocational Visions partners with local businesses for a Paid Internship Program where persons served obtain work experience interning with your business or organization for a set duration, ranging from three months to one year.

Your business or organization does not pay the intern; the intern is paid through a program funded by the State of California.

Payroll will be set up through Vocational Visions. The intern is paid an hourly wage commensurate with what any person with the same level of experience would be paid if your business/organization hired directly. The only payroll responsibilities your business/organization has is to have the intern’s direct supervisor sign off on the intern’s timesheet (provided by us) every two weeks.

The Paid Internship Program is beneficial for the following reasons:

The duration of the internship and work hours are flexible.
Vocational Visions provides job coaching support at no charge to your business/organization to support the intern’s success with the job responsibilities.
The intern/persons served gains valuable work experience and receives a paycheck.
You get support for your business/organization at no payroll cost to you.
You give back to an underserved population in the community.
Any worker’s comp issues that may arise will be handled through our internship program.

Vocational Visions will provide a one-to-one job coach at no cost to the employer to ensure the person served is successful in the internship.

Vocational Visions partners with Regional Center of Orange County for this program.

To learn more about a mutually beneficial partnership with Vocational Visions and how our persons served can fill the employment needs of your business or organization with individual or group placement, please contact our Adult Development Program, Atrem Behmanesh, at (949) 837-7280 ext. 235.