The Elmhurst Learning and Success Academy (ELSA) is a four-year, post-secondary certificate program for young adults, ages 18-28, with differing abilities.

Provides services and advocacy for individuals with disabilities to help seek employment. Services include: - Evaluates to determine vocational potential - Offers counseling to select vocational goals - Help understand how working will affect their SSDI/SSI benefits - Provides placement assistance Offers specialized VR services for people who are: - Blind or Visually Impaired - Deaf or Hard of Hearing - Hispanic or Latino with disabilities Also, helps high school students who have disabilities plan for their futures after high school graduation through our Transition and STEP programs. The Work Incentive Planning and Assistance Program helps people who receive SSDI/SSI benefits understand how working will affect their benefits. The Supported Employment Program (SEP) serves eligible people with significant disabilities who want to go to work and need on-going support services to succeed on the job.

DRS staff talk to persons with disabilities about their employment needs and help them find a job or get ready to go to work. They also make sure that people have the supports they need to stay on the job. Specialized vocational rehabilitation services for people who are: - Blind or visually impaired. - Deaf or hard of hearing. - Hispanic or Latino with disabilities. DRS help high school students who have disabilities plan for their futures after high school graduation. DRS Work Incentive Planning and Assistance Program helps people who receive SSDI/SSI benefits understand how working will affect their benefits. DRS Supported Employment Program (SEP) serves eligible people with significant disabilities who want to go to work and need on-going support services to succeed on the job.

Vocational Rehabilitation program to support veterans find and maintain employment in the community. Services include Supported Employment, Transitional Work, and Community Based Employment Services.

Offers information and comprehensive services for individuals with disabilities including: - Screening for benefits programs - Healthcare plan support, information, and advocacy - In-home services - Job skills evaluations - Independent life skills training - Residential education and outreach programs for children with disabilities

Provides individuals with disabilities on-the-job training and work experience. Individuals also earn competitive wages and benefits. Positions will be provided at the Naval Station Great Lakes.

Offers a broad range of interests and activities for individuals with disabilities. Activities include: - Relationship building - Job skills training - Culinary arts - Community explorations - Creative expression

Provides individualized programming for adults with developmental, physical, and medical disabilities. Offers the following services: - Developing social skills and other everyday skills. - Various kinds of therapy. - Activities of daily living. - Pre-vocational and vocational skills training. - Communication development. - Community/vocational outings.

DRS staff talk to persons with disabilities about their employment needs and help them find a job or get ready to go to work. They also make sure that people have the supports they need to stay on the job. Specialized vocational rehabilitation services for people who are: - Blind or visually impaired. - Deaf or hard of hearing. - Hispanic or Latino with disabilities. DRS help high school students who have disabilities plan for their futures after high school graduation. DRS Work Incentive Planning and Assistance Program helps people who receive SSDI/SSI benefits understand how working will affect their benefits. DRS Supported Employment Program (SEP) serves eligible people with significant disabilities who want to go to work and need on-going support services to succeed on the job.

Assists with: - Identifying work opportunities. - Outlining goals. - Developing job skills. - Social and entertaining activities. - Support in improving abilities and independence. - Access to skilled training specialists.

Offers a supported employment services to place members in jobs of their choice, including: - Individual and group counseling related to work/education - Vocational assessment to establish career goals - Pre-employment training (resume writing, interview skills, etc.) - Supervised paid and unpaid work activities - Job coaching and support - Social Security benefit information and assistance - Networking opportunities to find employment - Assistance securing transportation/learning to use public transit

Provides intense work-based substance abuse therapy for a minimum of six months. Clients live onsite and work in Salvation Army Family Stores and other areas, while participating in a full range of treatment programs. Programs offer housing, food, counseling, community, and employment as we work to treat the symptoms, and ultimately the root causes, of prolonged alcohol and drug dependence.

Provides vocational training for individuals with disabilities. Training areas include: - Janitorial training - Grounds keeping - Food service - Commissary service

The Individual Placement and Support program works with local businesses to assist individuals with a mental health diagnosis in obtaining employment. Evaluation and individualized treatment plans utilized to assist individuals. Services include: - Job searching. - Job coaching. - Vocational rehabilitation. - Assistance with resume writing. - Mock interviews. - On-the-job supports. - Benefits planning. - Other skill-based supports for obtaining and maintaining employment.

Vocational training experiences for individuals with disabilities to learn work skills and habits as well as to provide a regular paycheck.

Services for adults with developmental disabilities include: - Business Services: Support and training to work in the community. - Developmental Training: Work skills, recreation, and daily living skills to enhance personal independence and self-esteem. - Work: Vocational evaluation, job training, regular work, supported employment, and job placement services for persons with disabilities. Community Recycling Center is a part of this program. - Community Integrated Living Arrangements: Clients who lease or own their own homes may receive support in the areas of budgeting, shopping, cooking, communication with medical providers, and participation in social and recreational events. - Family Support - Services are provided to support families in caring for their special needs members.

Designed to assist people with disabilities to find employment by assisting them with job readiness skills, benefits counseling, job development, and case management. The program works with local business, as well as state and federal agencies, to ensure that the services are all encompassing.

Affords individuals with a serious mental illness the opportunity to work in a supportive and therapeutic environment. Clients will be given an opportunity to learn vocational skills, earn money, improve self-esteem, learn to work with others in a cooperative effort, and improve chances for future competitive employment. Individuals learn office skills, light industrial skills (assembling, packaging), and housekeeping.

Vocational training experiences for individuals with disabilities to learn work skills and habits as well as to provide a regular paycheck.

DRS staff talk to persons with disabilities about their employment needs and help them find a job or get ready to go to work. They also make sure that people have the supports they need to stay on the job. Specialized vocational rehabilitation services for people who are: - Blind or visually impaired. - Deaf or hard of hearing. - Hispanic or Latino with disabilities. DRS help high school students who have disabilities plan for their futures after high school graduation. DRS Work Incentive Planning and Assistance Program helps people who receive SSDI/SSI benefits understand how working will affect their benefits. DRS Supported Employment Program (SEP) serves eligible people with significant disabilities who want to go to work and need on-going support services to succeed on the job.

Evidence-based program that serves both adults and transition age youth to provide job readiness skills building, job development, job follow-along supports, and works with the Departmemt of Rehabilitation to find and retain jobs.

DRS staff talk to persons with disabilities about their employment needs and help them find a job or get ready to go to work. They also make sure that people have the supports they need to stay on the job. Specialized vocational rehabilitation services for people who are: - Blind or visually impaired. - Deaf or hard of hearing. - Hispanic or Latino with disabilities. DRS help high school students who have disabilities plan for their futures after high school graduation. DRS Work Incentive Planning and Assistance Program helps people who receive SSDI/SSI benefits understand how working will affect their benefits. DRS Supported Employment Program (SEP) serves eligible people with significant disabilities who want to go to work and need on-going support services to succeed on the job.

Services include: - Vocational Development: Training on community subcontract work for consumers that need job readiness and job search skills. - Supported Employment: Job placement with a job coach present to provide assistance to the consumer and assurance to the employer that the work will be done. - Job Placement: Job matching and searches/employer contacts and placement for consumers that are job-ready. - Regular Work Program: Provides sheltered employment for people with disabilities that demonstrate need for a supervised work setting.

Offered to individuals with a mental health diagnosis who have expressed a desire to obtain employment. Individuals receiving these services do not need to be a current client of the center. Employment services include: - Job coaching. - Mock interviews. - Resume writing. - Job searching. - On-the-job supports. - Benefits planning and other skill-based supports needed to help an individual obtain and maintain employment.

- Developmental Services and Community Integration: Provides skill training, paid work opportunities, community integration and employment to individuals in order to enhance and maintain their independence in community living. The program provides support, assistance and advocacy for individuals with developmental disabilities. - STARS (Structured Therapeutic Adult Recreation Services) Program: Collaboration between AID and Fox Valley Special Recreation Association. Focuses on active community integration, volunteer work and fitness activities for participants. - Autism Program: Emphasis placed on a specialized curriculum that includes communication skills, social and coping skills, functional life skills, community integration, vocational skills and volunteer opportunities. - Vocational Training: Assistance for individuals in obtaining and maintaining job training through subcontracts or community job sites. - Volunteer Sites: Used for the purpose of community integration as well as skill training. Clients learn social skills and an appreciation of giving back to the community as well as enhancing their vocational skills toward community employment. - Food Service: Trains clients in basic food service skills and positive work behaviors, enhances their independence and prepares them for community employment. Food Service also increases life-long learned skills, daily living skills and vocational skills.