Video Production Training Program

As a vendor service provider for Inland Regional Center, JDSCA’s Regional Day Video Production Program provides cross-collaboration and workforce training for adults with autism and other physical and developmental disabilities. Our career pathway program aims to provide training in a working studio to teach collaboration, soft skills, technical skills, logistics, and more through visual, performing, and digital arts.

Program participants assist in the production of the award-winning Spirit of Innovation: Arts Across America, , a monthly, feature-style newscast for Riverside County. Participants also have their own spin-off show that they release weekly, the SOI Stories. Both programs were acclaimed Telly Award winners in 2020. These programs are available throughout Riverside County on Riv-Co TV as well as on local community city channels and Binge Network. In 2019, our talented participants began gathering stories, writing, and announcing a radio news segment heard locally in Southwest Riverside County on 102.5 The Vine, and globally through their streaming platform at 1025thevine.org.

We provide hands-on training through our state-of-the-art television studio and field equipment. Program participants are trained by our Director of Education, staff, industry professional instructors, and mentored by hired-industry apprentices. Participants have the opportunity to learn:

Producing
Directing
Writing
Video production
Audio
Editing
Lighting
Animation

Streaming technical skills
Costumes
Sets
Acting
Makeup
Scheduling
Logistics
Work-based culture

We provide participants who successfully complete the program with work-search assistance, job interview prep, and letters of recommendation to help them find paid work, internships, apprenticeships, and higher education in the arts, entertainment and other cross-related industries.

JDSCA Video Production Training Program Participants must live in Riverside County and be registered and services by Inland Regional Center. For more information on IRC and their services, go to www.inlandrc.org or call the IRC at 909-890-3370.

Interested program participants who are already affiliated with the IRC can fill out our Program Interest Form (click here), and have your Consumer Service Coordinator contact us at participant-inquiry@jdsca.org with your IPP.

APPEAL RIGHTS NOTIFICATION

AB 1402 amended the Welfare and Institutions Code to add Section 4704.6 which states, “Each regional center and each vendor that contracts with a regional center to provide services to consumers shall conspicuously post on its Internet Website, if any, a link to the departments, Internet Website page that provides a description of the appeals procedure set forth in this chapter and a department telephone number available for answering consumer and applicant appeals procedure questions.”

All service providers of Inland Regional Center are expected to comply with this regulation in accordance with the terms and conditions of Vendorization.

The following information is provided to assist you in meeting this expectation.

The Department of Developmental Services website is located at : www.dds.ca.gov

Job Training Program: SOI Stories

SOI Talk – Created to explore opportunities and highlight abilities over disabilities, SOI Talk gives our program participants a chance to try their hand at writing, producing, and editing their own podcast. Host Scott Strand, along with rotating co-hosts from JDS Creative Academy’s job-training program, chat with special guests about breaking down barriers to achieve career satisfaction and self-enrichment.

SOI Stories – Revamped with a new title and focus, SOI Stories features our JDS Creative Academy participants diving into topics of interest that span across a variety of subjects; Arts & Education, History & Culture, and Science & Tech. Hosted, written, edited, and produced by our program participants, SOI Stories showcases their abilities and talents on a much broader scale.

Independent Projects – Our training participants also have the opportunity to participate in projects that allow them to work as a team. Designed to be participant-driven, independent projects require them to pick an interesting topic, write a script, and assemble a team who will assist with tasks including camera ops, editing, creating graphics, and more to help bring the participant’s vision to life.

Soft Skills – Our program also focuses on the behavioral side of job training. We teach our participants skills that would help them maintain a certain level of professionalism in a job setting. They learn skills such as time management, how to work with a team, how to send an email, request time off, and more.

PIP Program – At JDS Creative Academy, we also help our participants find paid year-long internships with local businesses and nonprofits. Through the paid internships, participants are also placed with a job coach who will teach them how to put the skills they’ve learned to practice.

Spirit of Innovation – As part of our job-training program, training participants play a significant role in the success of our award-winning television show, Spirit of Innovation: Arts Across America. They assist with everything from video production, audio, lighting, scriptwriting, editing, and more. The skills they learn at JDS Creative Academy will help prepare them for future jobs in creative adjacent industries.

Radio Community Spotlight – Since 2019, our program participants have hosted a radio segment on local Southwest Riverside County station 102.5 The Vine. They write, gather stories, record, edit, and announce their segments – sharing community events, traffic updates, news, and other Good-To-Know information.