This article highlights a pilot internship program at 21 Roots Farm, a nonprofit hobby farm that serves people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Six interns \u2014 all of whom had been regular attendees of programs at the farm \u2014 participated a 20-week work-experience program where they were \u201ctrained to be trainers\u201d, attending the weekly training sessions which focused on autonomy, safety and engagement to enable them to help train others to work on the farm\u2019s produce-subscription program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This article highlights a pilot internship program at 21 Roots Farm, a nonprofit hobby farm that serves people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Six interns \u2014 all of whom had been regular attendees of programs at the farm \u2014 participated a 20-week work-experience program where they were \u201ctrained to be trainers\u201d, attending the weekly training […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[91,10,29,28,19,33],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-care-farms-in-the-news","tag-21-roots-farm","tag-autism-idd","tag-employment","tag-job-readiness","tag-telling-your-story","tag-vegetable-production"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n