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Vocational, residential, and day services support and training to persons with developmental disabilities and/or related conditions.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Job Search/Placement
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs

Provides developmental training and support to persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Provides an appropriately structured environment that encourages participants to function optimally in the least restrictive setting, whether vocational, social, or community. Programs may include:

-Sensory motor activities.

- Occupational therapy.

- Vocational skills.

- Job training.

- Volunteer and employment options in a safe and supportive environment.

- Drop-in program for participants who do not have funding yet (Project Leisure).

Offers developmental training and sheltered/vocational workshop. Offers employment program through Division of Rehabilitation Services (DRS).

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.

Works with disabled individuals 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.

Services

Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Vocational Rehabilitation

Vocational training and job placement for developmentally disabled.

Community living training.

In-home support.

Shelter workshops and integrated work environments.

Services

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

Services

Supported Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Vocational Assessment
Day rehabilitation, day support, vocational rehabilitation, and supportive employment opportunities.

Congregate lunch at 12 noon Monday thru Friday.

Transportation to and from home, work, and appointments.

Services

Congregate Meals/Nutrition Sites
Psychiatric Day Treatment
Disability Related Transportation
Supported Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Illinois Department of Human Services's (IDHS) Office of Rehabilitation Services helps individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing, late-deafened, or deafblind find jobs, get ready to go to work, or obtain services to meet their needs. They serve as a resource to professionals, state agencies, community organizations, and the public, providing information related to employment, training, and accommodations for persons who have a hearing loss.

Services

Hard of Hearing
Assistive Technology Training
Specialized Information and Referral
Sign Language Interpreter Registries
Deafness
Vocational Rehabilitation
Health/Disability Related Counseling
Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) helps people with disabilities find and keep jobs. Through their Transition and STEP programs they help high school students who have disabilities plan for their futures after high school graduation. 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.

Services

Supported Employment
Welfare Rights Assistance
Vocational Rehabilitation
Illinois Department of Human Services's (IDHS) Office of Rehabilitation Services helps individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing, late-deafened, or deafblind find jobs, get ready to go to work, or obtain services to meet their needs. They serve as a resource to professionals, state agencies, community organizations, and the public, providing information related to employment, training, and accommodations for persons who have a hearing loss.

Services

Hard of Hearing
Assistive Technology Training
Specialized Information and Referral
Sign Language Interpreter Registries
Deafness
Vocational Rehabilitation
Health/Disability Related Counseling
Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) helps people with disabilities find and keep jobs. Through their Transition and STEP programs they help high school students who have disabilities plan for their futures after high school graduation. 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.

Services

Supported Employment
Welfare Rights Assistance
Vocational Rehabilitation
The Center of Deafness provides a process which enables individuals with disabilities or impairments to overcome barriers to accessing, maintaining, or returning to employment.
Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) helps people with disabilities find and keep jobs. Through their Transition and STEP programs they help high school students who have disabilities plan for their futures after high school graduation. 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.
Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) helps people with disabilities find and keep jobs. Through their Transition and STEP programs they help high school students who have disabilities plan for their futures after high school graduation. 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.

Services

Supported Employment
Welfare Rights Assistance
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.

Services

Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Independent Living Skills Instruction
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.

Services

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

Services

Vocational Rehabilitation
Supported Employment
Disability Related Center Based Employment

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.

Offers 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 such as assembling, packaging, and housekeeping.

Services

Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation

Offers to help blind or low vision Iowans prepare for, obtain and retain employment in a wide variety of occupations. Applicants are determined eligible for services based upon their visual disability, their need for employment services and their intent to work. They will work with a VR Counselor to jointly identify an employment goal and the services needed to achieve it.

Vocational, residential, and day services support and training to persons with developmental disabilities and/or related conditions.

Services

Vocational Rehabilitation
Job Search/Placement
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs
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
Assists individuals with disabilities to live and work independently in the community and provides professional training for graduate students and research opportunities for students and faculty to continually develop innovative rehabilitation practices. Services include: - Vocational Evaluation Services. - Community Employments Services. - Living Center Program where residents learn daily living skills and more. - Driver's Rehabilitation for people with disabilities. - Work Skills Development. - Behavioral Consultation. - Transportation to services within approximately 50-mile radius.

Services

Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Vocational Rehabilitation

Vocational training and job placement for developmentally disabled.

Community living training.

In-home support.

Shelter workshops and integrated work environments.

Services

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