Adults with Special Needs Living a College Experience

Adam's P.A.C.E.

Adam's P.A.C.E. is an inclusive post-secondary program that offers students the chance to live the full college experience while receiving personalized support. As an extension of Riverside School Board’s alternative services, this program is tailored to meet the unique needs of students in their final years of schooling. With person-centered planning, we create customized learning goals to help each student succeed and thrive.

The program takes place at Champlain College location in Saint-Lambert.

The program includes community-based instruction, job and mobility training, audited college classes and activities, transition planning, and inter-agency collaboration. Students also have opportunities to develop functional academic skills with a view to real life application, develop social skills with other people of similar ages, integrate in campus and community life and develop age-appropriate leisure and recreation pursuits.

What to Expect

Three days a week, the students are at Champlain College where they audit a course in a discipline which appeals to them: social sciences, physical education, languages, and more.

Two days a week, the students are on work-study in the community.

Students strive to improve their functional academics, develop life skills, and learn work skills.

The students are not just present at the college; they are part of it, participating in leisure activities, joining clubs, and making friends.

Students can choose to audit a class based on the available course offerings that semester. Examples of classes may be:

Math

Contemporary World

Physical Education and Health

Entrepreneurship and Exploration of Vocational Training

Ethics and Religions

English Language Arts & French Second Language

Financial World

Who to contact

If you are interested in our program or would like more information, please contact Celeste Alberga.

Where Adam's P.A.C.E. is located

Champlain College
900 Riverside Drive,
Saint-Lambert J4P 3P2