Bronx Transition Fair Connects Teens with Disabilities to Post-High School Opportunities

Annual Transition Fair for Students with Disabilities

• 🎯 The Bronx Transition and College Access Center hosted its annual Transition Fair, specifically designed for students with disabilities.
• 💡 The event aims to guide teens toward their paths into adulthood, offering postsecondary options and connections.

Diverse Opportunities Presented

• 🚀 The fair featured roughly 70 organizations, ranging from the Marines to cosmetology, providing a wide array of potential career and life paths.
• 🎓 Students can explore options for college, specific pathways to college, employment, or independent living.

Empowering Teens for the Future

• 🌟 Juniors interviewed expressed that the career fair empowered them to believe their disabilities do not have to limit their future.
• ✅ One student noted that while they usually dislike talking to people, the way opportunities were presented made the experience absolutely wonderful.
• 🤝 The event aims to increase the chances for students to achieve their goals of having a job like everyone else.