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BAC Helps Students Find On-The-Job Training
Viera High School Student Jacob C. has always enjoyed making and fixing things. Recently refurbishing several guitars, Jacob expressed an interest in working in a music store. His dream came true when Brevard Achievement Center found Jacob an On-the-Job Training...
Congrats to the Studio at BAC Holiday Card Contest Winners
The Studio at BAC conducts a Holiday Card Contest each year with students from Exceptional Student Education (ESE) classes within Brevard Public Schools. And this year was no exception. Sponsored by Moletteire Injury Law, the students enter their art in the contest...
A Thank You to My Internship
There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who work to live and those who live to work. Fortunately for me, my summer-turned-fall internship was a place I looked forward to attending every day. In part because of my coworkers, mainly because of the clients...
Power of Positive Thinking
For students under the age of twenty-two, high school vocational programs prepare adolescent youth for what's next. Unfortunately, on a student's twenty-second birthday, the public school system no longer continues to allow these young adults into their classrooms....
Power of the Arts
Other than our mission, Brevard Achievement Center (BAC) strives to continuously shape the viewpoints our community has on people with disabilities. When our clients enter the workforce or attend a new school program, the experience is always a positive one. The...
BAC Remembers the Special Olympics
While searching through the storage spaces at Brevard Achievement Center’s (BAC) Rockledge location, our staff came upon some treasure. Hidden on a high shelf, covered in dust were scrapbooks from BAC past. Naturally, we cleaned them up and began to reminisce....
Safety Tip: Bloodborne Pathogens
Industry Readiness Training (IRT) is a structured, integrative training program designed to increase and/or improve a person’s social, behavioral and vocational skills and traits. Through a series of assessments and on-the-job trainings, IRT clients will be able to...
Arts for All
The arts have always been a tool to provide comfort and ease. For those with disabilities, art can create a sense of tranquility. It can also improve life skills in a way formal classroom instruction cannot. Using art as a means of therapy, it's students can increase...
BAC President Visits the Panhandle
Brevard Achievement Center (BAC) has more than a dozen contracts both in and outside of its home state of Florida. It is on these contract sites that BAC clients of all abilities are able to earn an income in exchange for work. Often times, employers are reluctant to...
Tracy’s Trip to the Holy Land
The Dream. Wish. Wonder. program celebrates our clients and assists them in achieving their wildest dreams, no matter how big or small. Through our supporters, we are able to successfully obtain resources that go directly into our program, making dreams come true....