UNLV FOCUS

FOCUS UNLV is a post-secondary education program for young adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

F.O.C.U.S. (Forming Occupational and Community Understanding for Success) is a 2 to 4 year post-secondary education program for young adults with intellectual/developmental disability. uses the principles of the Universal Design for Learning and Person Centered planning to provide a 100% inclusive program to help college students achieve current and future academic, independent living, and employment goals.

08/25/2025

First day, best day! 🎉

12/17/2024

Hooray for an amazing fall semester!! Our students accomplished so much these past few months, here is just a small list of everything we got up to this Fall!

- Biology Labs 🧪
- Learning to Vote 🗳️
- Homecoming 🏈
- Volunteering at the SPCA 🐶
- First Year Seminar Symposium 🗒️
- Rebel Wonderland ❄️
- Internships 👨‍🍳
- And More!

Wishing everyone a restful winter break, see you back on campus in 2025!!

11/19/2024

Here at Project FOCUS, we know that community & campus engagement is a key part of the college experience! Here are some highlights from our 3 events last week!

Thursday: Field Day 🏀🏐
- Wallyball
- Dodgeball
- Zumba

Friday: Volunteering at the Nevada SPCA 🐶🐱
- Reading to animals
- Providing companionship

Saturday: Game Day! 🏈
- Cheered alongside the UNLV community, and watched the Rebels take the win!

08/05/2022

Hey Rebels! We are hiring an Ed Coach for the fall/spring semesters! Do you know someone who would be interested in working with FOCUS? Send them our way! 🤗

UNLV students, apply here: https://buff.ly/3SwjVWI or email focus@unlv.edu.

08/04/2022

to this summer when we partnered with our friends at Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV & UNLV Dental to simulate a drs/dentist visit for our students. This is experience is always one of our favorite days of camp & we can't wait for next year! 🙂🪥🩺

08/02/2022

Hi friends! Wow, August already?! Time sure is flying this year! Here's a little bit of what we've been up to here at UNLV! 🤗

10/29/2021

Happy Nevada Day from Project FOCUS! ☀️😎

10/20/2021

Ready for the festival and parade! 🥳🎉

09/20/2021

This fall we welcomed 8 brand new students to the FOCUS program and Sophia is one of them! Congratulations on receiving the Trow Drake Scholarship Award with - we are so happy to have you in the FOCUS fam and can't wait to see all you accomplish as a UNLV Rebel! 👏 🎉
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09/17/2021

Earlier this week our staff had the opportunity to present to the Henderson Fire Dept. about how to better assist individuals with developmental/intellectual disabilities. So cool to see our LV community come together & promote inclusion! Thanks for having us, Henderson Fire Department 😎 🔥

09/15/2021

Happy fall semester, friends! 😊☀️ We hope everyone has had as great of a start to the school year as we have- it's been AWESOME having everyone back on campus. Hope y'all are staying safe and workin hard! 😎 ✌️

03/24/2021

Info Session TONIGHT! Tell your friends and family- we'll see you at 6pm! RSVP here: https://buff.ly/3ls4oY5

Address

4505 S Maryland Pkwy
Las Vegas, NV
89154

Telephone

+17023250122

Website

https://www.unlv.edu/education/focus

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F.O.C.U.S. (Forming Occupational and Community Understanding for Success) is a 2 year post-secondary education program for young adults with intellectual/developmental disability. F.O.C.U.S. uses the principles of the Universal Design for Learning and Person Centered planning to provide a 100% inclusive program to help college students achieve current and future academic, independent living, and employment goals.