Schoolyard Dogs

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Schoolyard Dogs/Schoolyard Farms/Schoolyard Services is a collaboration of parents, students, graduates, teachers, volunteers, and local business partners whose mission is to provide job training, employment/volunteer opportunities, and life skills instruction for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities from the Wimberley Valley.

Our inaugural program will be Schoolyard Dogs – a hot dog food truck business. We are currently converting a special needs school bus into a food truck. Schoolyard Dogs will hire and train adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities from the Wimberley Valley to prepare and sell food to the public.

Another component of our program is Schoolyard Farms – a partnership with the Wimberley Independent School District (WISD). We help support the life skills program to raise crops and quail, and sell eggs, produce, and other food items.

Our ultimate goal is Schoolyard Services – a day habilitation (day hab) program for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities living in the Wimberley Valley.

The Schoolyard Services day hab would serve as a central location for our operations, including a kitchen, offices, classrooms and common areas, and a storefront. Daily (Monday-Friday) activities could include job and life skills training, volunteering, computer literacy, art, exercise, gardening, and hanging out with friends. Participants would also create items for sale, with the profits going back to help fund the day hab program.