1. Outside the Box Community-Based Work Experiences After High School
Brandon Smith & Dee Blose, M.Ed.

2. A program of Youth & Family Services, Inc.
The mission is to promote self-sufficiency for young adults with special needs through entrepreneurial experiences and business skills.

3. What do entrepreneurial experiences and business skills look like?
Creating functional items for purchase.
EX: mugs, journals, notepads, cards, etc.

4. What do entrepreneurial experiences and business skills look like?
Creating art for purchase.

5. What do entrepreneurial experiences and business skills look like?
Opening a homemade donut shop.

6. What do entrepreneurial experiences and business skills look like?
Growing an organic vegetable garden.

7. What do entrepreneurial experiences and business skills look like?
ETC.

8. What is being learned? Job Skills Socially Appropriate Behaviors
Work Appropriateness
Marketability
Communication
Creativity
Understanding Money
Job Expectations and Compatibility

9. What is being learned? Life Skills Health and Personal Hygiene
First Aid
Avoiding Fraud
Healthy Relationships
Dating Etiquette
Healthy & Appropriate Sexual Behaviors
Identifying Abuse
Setting Appropriate Boundaries

10. Where does funding and support come from?
WIA
Youth & Family Services, Inc.
Volunteers

11. Where does funding and support come from?
Selling one-of-a-kind products and creations at various venues and exhibits.
Oklahoma Statewide Autism Conference
Oklahoma Council for Exceptional Children Conference
Governor’s Conference on Developmental Disabilities

12. What makes Bee’s Knees successful?
Community Support
Volunteers
Yukon/El Reno
Medium Gallery
Speakers/Educators
Materials/Donations $

13. What makes Bee’s Knees successful?
Agency Support
Provides a non-profit umbrella
Provides a safe environment
Practicing social appropriateness
Provides an infrastructure to Bee’s Knees
, Supplies, Facility, Transportation

14. What makes Bee’s Knees successful?
Family Support
The families of Bee’s Knees provide support by assisting with daily transportation, donations of materials, attendance at events, inviting other family and friends to be involved, and being cheerleaders.
We have a vision to move Bee’s Knees to a higher level of family involvement.

15. How do I get involved?
If you or someone you know would like to get involved with Bee’s Knees, please call the Youth & Family Services, Inc. hotline at (405)
Bee’s Knees is part of a 501(c)(3) and can accept monetary and in-kind donations.

16. Q & A