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Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) helps individuals with disabilities who are Hispanic/Latino obtain employment, education, and training, and access a variety of community resources. They also assist families of eligible customers in obtaining needed services and resources.

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Leadership Development
Functional Disabilities
Hispanic/Latino Community
Vocational Rehabilitation
Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) offers programs for adults with visual impairments to enable them to work and participate fully in family and community life. Services include vocational rehabilitation and the Business Enterprise Program for the Blind (BEPB) which offers management opportunities in the food service industry to individuals who are legally blind after completing a six-month training course.

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Occupation Specific Job Training
Blindness
Vocational Rehabilitation
Partial Sightedness
Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) offers programs for adults with visual impairments to enable them to work and participate fully in family and community life. Services include vocational rehabilitation and the Business Enterprise Program for the Blind (BEPB) which offers management opportunities in the food service industry to individuals who are legally blind after completing a six-month training course.

Services

Occupation Specific Job Training
Blindness
Vocational Rehabilitation
Partial Sightedness
Supported employment provides vocational services which promote and support inclusion within the community. Encourages and assists people in obtaining jobs in the community or running their own small business. The focus is on assessing interest, job placement, and job coaching.

Job coaching provides training for clients to perform job tasks to the employer's specifications and to learn the interpersonal skills necessary to be accepted as workers at the job site.

Vocational centers provide training to teach people vocational skills and an opportunity to earn an income through completion of contract work.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Supported Employment
Disability Related Center Based Employment

Provides individualized services to Iowans with disabilities to achieve their independence through successful employment and economic support.

**Visit website for information on local Vocational Rehabilitation Offices.

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Prevocational Training
Vocational Assessment
Subsidized Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation

Provides individualized services to Iowans with disabilities to achieve their independence through successful employment and economic support.

**Visit website for information on local Vocational Rehabilitation Offices.

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Prevocational Training
Vocational Assessment
Subsidized Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation

Provides skills training programs (LEEP/Link Employment Exploration Program) and Supported Employment programs (job development and job coaching) to individuals with an intellectual or developmental disability.

Provides individualized services to Iowans with disabilities to achieve their independence through successful employment and economic support.

**Visit website for information on local Vocational Rehabilitation Offices.

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Prevocational Training
Vocational Assessment
Subsidized Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation

Career development, job development/planning, placement and on-going supports for persons with developmental or other disabilities.

Supported employment offers community-based work options for adults with developmental disabilities.

Job Club 8-week intensive job search program for individuals with disabilities. Participants focus on increasing employability skills, practicing interview skills, obtaining job leads, and helping one another.

Job Development assists adults with disabilities in determining the type of employment setting that best meets their needs, interests, and abilities. Staff assist with creating a resume and interviewing for jobs.

Job Coaching provides supplemental on the job training for adults with disabilities.

Continuing education classes are offered beyond high school in a variety of formats and settings and focus on independent living, money management, social, and employment-related skills.

Independent living services provide instruction for individuals who live in their own home (apartment or house) or in their family's home. Education, training and support is provided to maintain or increase independent living skills, such as money management, health and safety, interpersonal relations, community awareness, recreational skills, nutrition, hygiene and leisure.

The Art of Imagination classes offer artistic opportunities in traditional art forms such as painting, writing, drawing and photography and more alternative art forms such as papercraft, mail art, cartooning, post card and greeting card creation.

Provides residential and vocational support services to persons with mental and physical disabilities. Includes HCBS waiver programs, supported community living, transportation, job coaching and placement, CDAC, medication management, independent living skills, and payee services for clients.

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Centers for Independent Living
Representative Payee Services
Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Supported Employment
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Vocational Rehabilitation
Benefits Planning and Work Incentives Counseling assists Social Security disability beneficiaries ages 14 to full retirement age in understanding how federal disability cash (SSDI/SSI), healthcare (Medicare/Medicaid) and other public benefits are impacted by income from work, providing the assurances needed to make informed decisions about working while disabled. This service also helps individuals identify and strategically use state/federal work incentives that best align with their work goals. Employment Services are provided under the Ticket to Work Program. The Ticket to Work program is uniquely designed for disability beneficiaries ages 18-64, that are currently receiving SSDI or SSI cash benefits, to obtain, maintain or advance in employment. Opportunity Consultants support individuals through the Nebraska Ticket to Work program by delivering career planning, goal setting, resume preparation, job search assistance, community resource navigation and personalized follow-along support. Participants also receive benefits education, healthcare planning and work incentive advisement.

Provides free and confidential services. Services offered include pregnancy testing, pregnancy counseling, limited ultrasound, on-going pregnancy support, referrals for community support services, support after an abortion, Earn While You Learn Program, fatherhood mentoring programs, and Mother's/Maternity Home.

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Mentoring Programs
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Pregnancy Testing
Pregnancy Counseling
Specialized Information and Referral
Vocational Rehabilitation
Parenting Skills Classes
Childbirth Education
Iowa Vocational Rehabilitation provides vocational assessments, job coaching and supported employment services. In addition, support for students with disabilities pursuing post-secondary education is available.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Vocational Assessment
Supported Employment

Provides individualized services to Iowans with disabilities to achieve their independence through successful employment and economic support.

**Visit website for information on local Vocational Rehabilitation Offices.

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Prevocational Training
Vocational Assessment
Subsidized Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation

Provides individualized services to Iowans with disabilities to achieve their independence through successful employment and economic support.

**Visit website for information on local Vocational Rehabilitation Offices.

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Prevocational Training
Vocational Assessment
Subsidized Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Work activity centers in Red Oak and Shenandoah provide opportunities for people with disabilities to gain useful vocational training while earning a wage.

Day habilitation services.

Transportation to both services is available.

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Disability Related Center Based Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation

Provides free and confidential services. Services offered include pregnancy testing, pregnancy counseling, limited ultrasound, on-going pregnancy support, referrals for community support services, support after an abortion, Earn While You Learn Program, fatherhood mentoring programs, and Mother's/Maternity Home.

Services

Mentoring Programs
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Pregnancy Testing
Pregnancy Counseling
Specialized Information and Referral
Vocational Rehabilitation
Parenting Skills Classes
Childbirth Education

Provides individualized services to Iowans with disabilities to achieve their independence through successful employment and economic support.

**Visit website for information on local Vocational Rehabilitation Offices.

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Prevocational Training
Vocational Assessment
Subsidized Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation

Vocational training and job placement for developmentally disabled.

Community living training.

In-home support.

Shelter workshops and integrated work environments.

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Job Search/Placement
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Attendant Services for People With Disabilities
Supported Employment

Provides free and confidential services. Services offered include pregnancy testing, pregnancy counseling, limited ultrasound, on-going pregnancy support, referrals for community support services, support after an abortion, Earn While You Learn Program, fatherhood mentoring programs, and Mother's/Maternity Home.

Services

Mentoring Programs
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Pregnancy Testing
Pregnancy Counseling
Specialized Information and Referral
Vocational Rehabilitation
Parenting Skills Classes
Childbirth Education
Vocational, residential, and day services support and training to persons with developmental disabilities and/or related conditions.

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Job Search/Placement
Vocational Rehabilitation
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs
Offers Pre-Vocational services, Community Employment and Day Habilitation services are offered to teens and adults of working age to develop the skills necessary to be successful on the job and/or to increase their successful integration into their community.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Supported Employment
Vocational Assessment
Prevocational Training
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Employment program for people who experience a disability. Assists people with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. Program is voluntary and the services provided will be specific to an individual's needs.

Helps businesses recruit, train, and retain employees with disabilities.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Assistive Technology Equipment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Employment program for people who experience a disability. Assists people with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. Program is voluntary and the services provided will be specific to an individual's needs.

Helps businesses recruit, train, and retain employees with disabilities.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Assistive Technology Equipment
Vocational Rehabilitation

Community based residential programs for persons with intellectual disabilities over 16 years of age; private and state placements; teach daily living, hygiene, cooking, independent living skills, and mobility skills.

Prevocational services for persons with intellectual disabilities.

Job skills and job placement.

Day services for persons with multiple/severe disabilities.

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Adult Day Programs
Group Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Day Treatment for Adults With Developmental Disabilities
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation