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The Employment & Training Department offers services that include instruction in basic independent living skills, sheltered employment training, and preparation for placement in supportive and/or competitive employment for persons with developmental disabilities. Their various programs assist consumers in achieving their maximum independence level by increasing their earning capacity, self-esteem, and self-sufficiency.

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Homeless Employment Programs
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Safer Foundation offers immediate and long-term employment placement along with career building with highly skilled job training services for individuals with a prior arrest or conviction history.
Chicago Urban League's Workforce Development Center programs work to raise Black employment and income levels through job training and placement services, career exposure, career advancement support services, seminars, coaching, and long-term retention strategies.

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General Youth Employment Programs
Job Readiness
Career Exploration
Classroom Training
Apprenticeship Training
Internship Programs
Job Search Techniques
Ex-Offender Employment Programs
Senior employment program
Assists individuals with developmental challenges in finding jobs within their area of interest.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Employment and Economic Opportunity Program - Services include job skills development, job placement and job upgrade assistance.
Employment services for people with disabilities.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Services include job skills development, job placement and job upgrade assistance. Also assists clients with education, training and apprenticeships to advance in their careers.
Provides job readiness services, vocational rehabilitation and job placement services to persons with physical, visual and limited learning disabilities. Services include counseling on how to present self to potential employers, interviewing techniques, communication skills development,

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Job training program for positions like Computer Numerical Control machinist and welder. Also provides financial coaching, benefits assistance, employment services for participants in job training program. Adult education (tutoring) also available.
Workforce Development - workforce training services and assistance to persons with arrest or conviction records and those who have been released from jail or prison or who are preparing to be released. Services by appointment only.
Provides job training for individuals with disabilities.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Helping individuals with disabilities find jobs that suit their skills, preferences and goals and empowering them to be independent. Provides job coaching, skill building and training to help individuals find and keep jobs.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Provides opportunities for individuals with disabilities to learn various vocational job tasks in the day-to-day operation of a wholesale and retail greenhouse business. Team Members work a minimum of ten hours per month with a job coach, and receive a monthly paycheck.
Employment-related services for those living with any disability. Services include career counseling, job training and preparation, job development and placement and supported employment.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Provides adult day services for individuals with autism and other intellectual disabilities, offering onsite paid employment, supported employment in community, career counseling, job interview preparation, vocational training and job placement assistance.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
The Re-Entry Employment Services Program (RESP) assists former offenders overcome employment hurdles, including career development counseling, registration assistance on the Illinois Job Link site, and employment opportunities. Also provides or refers clients to job readiness workshops and services like resume and interviewing assistance.
Safer Foundation offers immediate and long-term employment placement along with career building with highly skilled job training services for individuals with a prior arrest or conviction history.
Safer Foundation offers immediate and long-term employment placement along with career building with highly skilled job training services for individuals with a prior arrest or conviction history.
The Duman Opportunity Center - helps eligible individuals find and maintain employment. Services include job readiness training, placement assistance, retention strategies and job coaching.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Employment services available for persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities, including independent community employment, supported employment, job training, and workshop services.
Online searchable database of inclusive employers and job opportunities, programs, and services for persons with disabilities and Veterans.
Assists people with disabilities looking for and obtaining jobs, or living independently, including vocational rehabilitation and ensuring individuals have job support to maintain employment.
Safer Foundation provides a process that enables individuals with disabilities or impairments to overcome barriers to accessing, maintaining, or returning to employment, helping with: soft skills, helping entry exams, financial support for entry-level certifications and post-training employment.
R.I.S.E. (Restoring Inheritance Stewarding Excellence) Reentry Planning focuses on five areas: Faith, Critical Decision-Making, Workforce Preparedness, Technology, and Financial Literacy. Courses covering each area are conducted inside correctional facilities (CCDOC), providing support for the people and their plans upon release. Setting up individuals for success by helping to ease an already difficult transition is an essential element of reentry.

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Ex-Offender Employment Programs
Ex-Offender Reentry Programs