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Offers:
-- Resume development
-- Preparing for work through job readiness, etc.
-- Practicing through mock interviews
-- Understanding ADA rights in the interview process
-- Discussing disability issues
-- Accessing the hidden job market
-- Writing follow up letters
-- Job Application skills
-- Interviewing skills development
-- Use mass transit to get to and from work, including learning bus routes, practice using the bus system with the assistance of a coach, and successfully navigating mass transit system
Provides services such as job placement assistance, unemployment insurance, unemployment tax liability services, services for veterans, labor market information, dislocated worker programs (Re-employment Services), proficiency testing and career guidance.

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Job Retraining
Unemployment Insurance
Job Search/Placement
Work Permits
Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
CBE (COMMUNITY BASED EMPLOYMENT) provides assistance in finding and maintaining employment in contracted and non-contracted work environments to people with disabilities.

LIFE SKILLS (DAY HAB) a non-paid day program that provides support in developing or maintaining life skills and community integration.

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Prevocational Training
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Supported Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Vocational Assessment
Supports individuals with disabilities and other needs in finding community-based jobs in businesses of their choosing. To do this, staff get to know a person outside of work, assess their interests, skills, and goals, look at their home environment, and find out when and where they are at their best. Staff then offer individualized training to improve skills as well as the opportunity to learn about different types of work by visiting businesses or trying out a job for 10 days.

Provides American Indian employment and training programs.

Provides vocational and residential services for persons with intellectual disabilities or chronic mental illness.

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Supported Employment
Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Occupation Specific Job Training
Residential Placement Services for People With Disabilities
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Mental Health Related Community Support Services (CSS)

Provides FIP recipients with experience that will enhance their work skills and increase their employment potential, while providing a service that will benefit the community. They will, to the maximum extent possible, learn and perform all assignments associated with a position. Participants do not receive wages for work performed, but instead receive a transportation allowance, child care assistance if necessary, and Workers' Compensation Coverage from Promise Jobs.

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Occupation Specific Job Training
Job Search/Placement
Welfare to Work Programs

Offers a Disability Access Point, or "DAP", which help people with disabilities, their families, and their caregivers find the services and support they need-both short-term and long-term. DAPs help by giving information, making plans, making referrals and checking in to make sure people are getting the right support to live healthy, independent lives.

Can help with the following services:

- Information and Assistance - based on presented and identified needs, provides information about programs and services, and helps to connect individuals to service providers in their communities.

- Options Counseling - provides guidance to individuals so that they may make informed choices about supports and services, typically over a period of 90 days or less. This includes benefits screening and application assistance for programs and services and follow-ups to make sure supports and decisions are assisting the individual.

- Financial Assistance - provides gap funding and service coordination for programs and services that support individuals and their caregivers so that individuals may live in the home and community of their choice. Help with short-term services and long term services are also provided.

Short-term supports (time-limited) include adaptive and assistive equipment, home and vehicle modifications, peer and parent support services, rent assistance, transportation assistance, and other basic needs (not covered by insurance).

Long-term services and supports includes adult day programs, consumer-directed attendant care (CDAC) (non-skilled and skilled), day habilitation, employment like job skills training, prevocational services, and supported employment, intensive residential services (IRSH), personal response systems, respite services like in-home, in-facility, and day camps, supported community living (SCL) and home-based habilitation (hourly), and residential living settings.

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Transportation Expense Assistance
Supported Employment
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Benefits Screening
Intermediate Care Facility/DD Transition Financing Programs
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Aging and Disability Resource Centers
Nursing Home Transition Financing Programs
Home Barrier Removal Grants
Prevocational Training
Specialized Information and Referral
Long Term Care Options Counseling
Respite Care Subsidies
General Household Goods Provision
Provides FIP recipients with work experience that will enhance their work skills and increase their employment potential, while providing a service that will be of benefit to the community. Participants in Promise Jobs are assigned to work sites three days per week (or more), eight hours per day, for a maximum of six months. They will, to the maximum extent possible, learn and perform all assignments associated with a position. Participants do not receive wages for work performed, but instead receive a transportation allowance, child care assistance if necessary, and Workers' Compensation Coverage from Promise Jobs.

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Welfare to Work Programs
Occupation Specific Job Training
Job Search/Placement
Employment services including access to computers/internet for employment purposes. Assistance provided to individuals with job search, filing unemployment insurance, resumes, and cover letters. Access to partner agencies in the American Job Center include One Stop Employment Solutions/Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) job training, Experience Works, Department of Labor Office, Nebraska Vocational Rehabilitation, Goodwill/YWCA Job Outfitters, and Adult Basic Education.

One Stop Employment Solutions offers job training for adult and those unemployed due to layoffs or business closing and displaced homemakers through assistance with post-secondary education, on-the-job training, work experience, and career guidance.

Nebraska Department of Labor offers employment and training services for workers, job seekers, and businesses in the building, with many services also offered through self-service electronic access. Services to job seekers include, but are not limited to: assessment of skill levels; career guidance; job search assistance; workshops; job referral and placement assistance; and reemployment services offered through the NEres program. Services offered to employers include, but are not limited to: referral of job seekers to job openings; matching job requirements with job seeker experience; assistance with special recruitment needs; analyzing hard-to-fill job orders; assistance with job restructuring; and industry counseling and guidance.

Nebraska Vocational Rehabilitation assists people with disabilities in preparing for, finding, and keeping jobs. Helps businesses recruit, train, and retrain employees with disabilities. Through this "dual client" approach, the agency assists individuals with injuries, illness, or impairments achieve competitive employment and increased independence, and assists business owners and employers through full services business consultation on a variety of business an disability-related areas. Every other Thursday 8:30 am-11:30 am.

Experience Works administers the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP). See separate listing for more information.

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WIOA Programs
Job Information
Career Counseling
Job Search/Placement
Occupation Specific Job Training
Prejob Guidance
Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Provides students with disabilities the extra training and support needed to become independent and successful in community jobs.

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Career Counseling
Occupation Specific Job Training

Provides FIP recipients with experience that will enhance their work skills and increase their employment potential, while providing a service that will benefit the community. They will, to the maximum extent possible, learn and perform all assignments associated with a position. Participants do not receive wages for work performed, but instead receive a transportation allowance, child care assistance if necessary, and Workers' Compensation Coverage from Promise Jobs.

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Occupation Specific Job Training
Job Search/Placement
Welfare to Work Programs

Offers bus driver training. Providing two types of Bus Driver courses. An 8-hour initial training is required for all new school bus drivers prior to getting a bus permit and 2-hour refresher workshop is required in the 12-month period prior to renew a school bus permit.

Offers to help veterans succeed in the 21st Century Workforce. This is accomplished through three goals: maximizing veterans employment, earning, retention, and competitiveness; assuring that service members transition to quality civilian employment; and protecting the employment and reemployment rights of veterans.

Service information can be obtained by calling the local IowaWorks Center.

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Job Search/Placement
Employment Related Advocacy Groups
Job Retraining

Free short-term career training program for Iowa residents who are unemployed and underemployed needing gainful employment.

Financial assistance may include program tuition and books, required fees, materials and other services. The program provides resources to Iowa residents who would otherwise not be able to afford career training.

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.

Educates members of the African diaspora to learn and prepare traditional foods from the five culinary regions of the African continent and prepare participants for a career in the food industry.

Offers interns ranging from youth to adults and seniors who are either aspiring or active culinary professionals or part of the non-professional population a chance to participate in a free 8-week comprehensive course on African Culinary Heritage in a classroom and professional setting.

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Occupation Specific Job Training

Provides FIP recipients with experience that will enhance their work skills and increase their employment potential, while providing a service that will benefit the community. They will, to the maximum extent possible, learn and perform all assignments associated with a position. Participants do not receive wages for work performed, but instead receive a transportation allowance, child care assistance if necessary, and Workers' Compensation Coverage from Promise Jobs.

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Occupation Specific Job Training
Job Search/Placement
Welfare to Work Programs

Provides access to employment and services for Iowa job seekers with disabilities. Navigators enhance service offered by agencies supporting the local disability workforce, by supporting job seekers with information and connection with service programs providing career enhancement.

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Job Retraining
Occupation Specific Job Training

Employment services including job matching and referral, job search and job placement assistance, career guidance and assessment, employer services, labor market information, apprenticeships, veteran services, resume design, interview skills development, and a variety of other programs and services.

Computers with internet available.

Many services also apply to out-of-school individuals ages 14-24 with employment barriers, including:

-- Paid work experience, summer employment, and on-the-job training opportunities

-- Tuition assistance

-- On site tutoring

-- Support services to assist with application fees, enrollment fees, work attire, school or work supplies, etc.

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Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Occupation Specific Job Training
Apprenticeship Training
On the Job Training
General Youth Employment Programs
Prejob Guidance
Educational Testing
Scholarships
WIOA Programs
Job Search/Placement
Career Counseling
Education Related Fee Payment Assistance
Job Training Resource Lists
Veteran Employment Programs
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
Facility based training and employment for persons with developmental, physical, emotional and mental disabilities, plus persons with brain injuries. Programs include, work evaluation, and work adjustment training a specific skills training in office clerical or computers, retail skills, and janitorial services.

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Prevocational Training
Supported Employment

Offers two types of Bus Driver courses

8-hour initial training is required for all new school bus drivers prior to getting a bus permit.

2-hour refresher workshop is required in the 12 month period prior to renew a school bus permit.

Offers to help veterans succeed in the 21st Century Workforce. This is accomplished through three goals: maximizing veterans employment, earning, retention, and competitiveness; assuring that service members transition to quality civilian employment; and protecting the employment and reemployment rights of veterans.

Service information can be obtained by calling the local IowaWorks Center.

Categories

Job Search/Placement
Employment Related Advocacy Groups
Job Retraining

Provides FIP recipients with experience that will enhance their work skills and increase their employment potential, while providing a service that will benefit the community. They will, to the maximum extent possible, learn and perform all assignments associated with a position. Participants do not receive wages for work performed, but instead receive a transportation allowance, child care assistance if necessary, and Workers' Compensation Coverage from Promise Jobs.

Categories

Occupation Specific Job Training
Job Search/Placement
Welfare to Work Programs
Provides FIP recipients with work experience that will enhance their work skills and increase their employment potential, while providing a service that will be of benefit to the community. Participants in Promise Jobs are assigned to work sites three days per week (or more), eight hours per day, for a maximum of six months. They will, to the maximum extent possible, learn and perform all assignments associated with a position. Participants do not receive wages for work performed, but instead receive a transportation allowance, child care assistance if necessary, and Workers' Compensation Coverage from Promise Jobs.

Categories

Welfare to Work Programs
Occupation Specific Job Training
Job Search/Placement