Preparing Students for Life!
Freedom Academy is at the heart of the Freedom Village vision. Students will enroll at Freedom Academy to experience a bold new version of relevant, real world, hands-on, career development and vocational training, anchored in the life skills & liberal arts core curriculum. The Academy’s private trade school will open new avenues of student financial aid and provide the opportunity for students from diverse socio-economic backgrounds to experience a first class education in a beautiful college campus setting where they will form friendships and memories that will last a lifetime!
Freedom Academy will utilize the most effective strategies to ensure our students success including career development & training in our Project FREE Businesses. Concentrations of studies will award trade certificates. The central goal of the Academy is to prepare our students for a successful and independent life that includes competitive wage employment. In addition to our world-class curriculum, Freedom Academy’s innovative program components include:
Program Components
- Marketable Trade certificates based on chosen career and occupational selections
- College environment with on campus housing and supported, independent living
- Flexible day and early evening class schedules
- Related and support services with a multi-disciplinary team approach
- On campus and community support network
- State-of-the-art small classes with teachers certified in content areas and in special education
- Social skills and Self Advocacy Development
- Career Development and Employment
- A full array of extracurricular activities
- Communication across the curriculum
Freedom Academy is dedicated to serving the educational and occupational needs of each student enrolled and providing an arena where each student improves their quality of life and achieves post-graduate success in a choice of many exciting fields. Freedom Academy is central to Project FREE’s mission to raise the quality of life for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
