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SkillRise · Skills Gateway

Build your own plan

Choose a workplace you want to spend time in and a skill you want to work on. You get the workdays to walk through, the practice steps behind the skill, free tools and a clear next move. No grades. Real consequences.

Step 1 · Choose a workplace

Step 2 · Choose a skill

Your plan

Self-advocacy at Falls Health Clinic

Saying what you need, want, don't understand or won't do — and choosing how.

Not the same as: Only complaining about unfair treatment. Asking for something to do is self-advocacy too.

Workdays to walk through

  1. Workday 01 · The Favor

    Monday · 8:52 AM

    Your cousin's husband wants to know if his wife came in last week, and why. He's not being cruel about it. He's just asking.

  2. Workday 02 · A Slow Afternoon

    Tuesday · 1:15 PM

    Nothing urgent is happening, which is its own kind of trap. No-shows, a records request and a phone that won't stop, and every small decision is yours alone.

  3. Workday 03 · In Front of Everyone

    Thursday · 2:50 PM

    Walt comes apart at the desk in front of a full waiting room. You have maybe ten seconds to protect his dignity before this becomes something the whole town heard about.

Practice steps

These get harder as you go. Tick the ones you have actually done at work — nobody is grading this.

The same skill somewhere else

Manufacturing · Production line

Fenmore Line 4

Eleven Minutes

A sticking safety guard puts production pressure and your working conditions in tension.

Enter workday

Food processing · Grading and packing line

Harrow Plain Packhouse

The Truck at Eleven

Instructions to speed up grading conflict with the specification you were trained to follow.

Enter workday

Retail — home goods

Rise & Co. Homeware

The Return

An unusual return raises the question of when to ask a manager for guidance.

Enter workday