Cal Transitions

Cal Transitions, UC Berkeley's WorkAbility IV program, represents a select group of students and recent Cal graduates who have disabilities. Cal Transitions connects qualified, experienced and diverse candidates with employers interested in enriching their workforce by hiring the best.

Eligibility

There are two requirements to joining Cal Transitions:

1. You need to be either a student or a recent graduate (May 2005 or more recent degree date) of UC Berkeley.
2. You need to be a client of the state Department of Rehabilitation, or you need to be eligible to receive Department of Rehabilitation services. To better understand what the process is to become a client, please refer to the Department of Rehabilitation website.

What Are the Benefits of Joining?

Cal Transitions offers its program participants:

• Career Counseling
• Job Search skill development: finding and retaining internships and jobs
• Goal setting
• Action plan creation
• Resume and Cover Letter development
• Job development and placement services
• Peer support
• Job Club (weekly)
• Career Club (monthly)
• Mentoring program
• Use of Accessible Workstation (with Window Eyes, Dragon Naturally Speaking, Read & Write)
• On-going support at the job site to aid with retention
• ...and more

Procedure

All of us working with Cal Transitions are eager to see how we might help you. So eager are we, that we like giving you lots of options to get a hold of us! So if you are interested in joining Cal Transitions - or in receiving more information about our program, you can do any of the following:

• Fill out our online form
• Give Patrick a call at (510) 643-8492
• Drop us a line
• Schedule an appointment with Meriah directly by calling the Front Desk at (510) 642-1716 (ext.6)

We look forward to hearing from you - and meeting you - soon!

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