Mounting Horizons Inc.

What does accountability mean and what does it look like? How do you find and choose an accountability partner? What about a mentor? We'll answer these questions and more in today's training. Using activities, videos, and discussion, participants will learn the importance of accountability in adult life and the impacts our decisions can make on […]

A potential barrier in the workplace that many young adults struggle with is identifying their role, its responsibilities, and the impact their role and actions have on the rest of the team. During this training, we'll engage in activities focused on analyzing sample work tasks and roles, understanding how to ask/determine who supervisors are, and […]

How we assess goals to see if they are actionable, attainable, and realistic? In this training, participants will learn how to format their goals as SMART goals, which will help them learn to break down goals into steps they can achieve. We'll work on different examples from within workspaces, in social settings, and in our […]

Participants will learn about different communication styles and cover effective strategies within assertive communication. We'll pair this with an overview of the decision making/problem solving process, using practice examples to check for understanding on how to: identify the problem/decision, identify steps, and think through potential solutions or results from making decisions. We'll tie in how […]

Participants will build off the previous lesson on reasonable accommodations by getting the opportunity to test in real time low-to-mid tech options they can use in the community and on a worksite. We'll roleplay the disclosure process and practice making an accommodation request, creating tools that we can utilize in the future to support us […]

Participants will work alongside advocate to do a brief evaluation of program activities thus far, before jumping into activities relating to accommodations in the workplace and other settings. Participants will complete activities and questionnaires that help them define their learning style and support needs. We'll watch videos that explain the disability disclosure process, practice utilizing […]

At this point in the training, we have learned to describe our disabilities in our own words, can identify the symptoms/barriers we experience as well as any triggers that impact our mental health. Now, we will work on exploring coping strategies that we can utilize to help us cope with disability-related symptoms and both internal […]

Participants will recognize what our disabilities are and have a clearer understanding of how they impact us, we'll learn about various types of sensory or emotional triggers, review tools for communicating our needs and experiences, and begin to dive into the topic of emotional regulation. By learning how to identify our triggers and communicate our […]

This training will focus on becoming disability aware and able to understand your individual strengths, symptoms, and barriers relating to having anxiety. We’ll take a dive into common experiences folks have with anxiety, be able to identify specific symptoms and barriers we each deal with, share our experiences in a peer support format, and begin […]

Our first training will focus on becoming disability aware and able to understand your individual strengths, symptoms, and barriers relating to being on the Autism spectrum. We’ll take a dive into common experiences have with being on the spectrum, be able to identify specific symptoms and barriers we each deal with, share our experiences in […]

Participants will get to create their own sculptures in a two-part class series. In the second installment of Get Crafty, participants will be able to paint their dry pieces. They’ll get to determine which colors they want to use and visit with their peers as they finalize their pieces. By participating in this class, participants […]