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The Prevocational Training programs at The Spectrum Network involve working with adults with challenges and barriers to increase their work skills, independence and job knowledge. This training can be one-on-one or in an enclave or group setting.
Assistance for eligible persons interested in obtaining a CDL license or CNA certification including tuition, books, and testing. Some allowable courses are available and subject to approval based on length of the course and date the course completes.

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Occupation Specific Job Training
Education Related Fee Payment Assistance

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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Employment Related Advocacy Groups
Job Retraining
Job Search/Placement
Employment services for people with disabilties.

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Job Search/Placement
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Prevocational Training
Provides opportunities for youths, 5 years of age and older, challenged by mental health issues to develop and achieve their fullest potential through life-skills, education, counseling, and vocational training. Services available in school environment and outside of the school environment.

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Prevocational Training
Adolescent/Youth Counseling

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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Vocational Rehabilitation
Subsidized Employment
Vocational Assessment
Prevocational Training

Provides disability services, including intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities, daily and hourly home-based habilitation and support community living, day habilitation, and supported employment.

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Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Supported Employment
Vocational Assessment
Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals With Developmental Disabilities
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs
Vocational Rehabilitation
Prevocational Training
Centers for Independent Living
Independent Living Skills Instruction
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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Occupation Specific Job Training
Welfare to Work Programs
Job Search/Placement

Offers school bus driver training and refresher courses.

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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Job Training Resource Lists
Veteran Employment Programs
Career Counseling
Prejob Guidance
WIOA Programs
Education Related Fee Payment Assistance
Job Search/Placement
Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
On the Job Training
Apprenticeship Training
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
Occupation Specific Job Training
Scholarships
General Youth Employment Programs
Educational Testing

Provides American Indian employment and training 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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Supported Employment
Long Term Care Options Counseling
Prevocational Training
Benefits Screening
Transportation Expense Assistance
Home Barrier Removal Grants
Utility Service Payment Assistance
General Household Goods Provision
Nursing Home Transition Financing Programs
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Specialized Information and Referral
Respite Care Subsidies
Rent Payment Assistance
Aging and Disability Resource Centers
Intermediate Care Facility/DD Transition Financing Programs

Provides assistance for youth, ages 17 up to age 23, who are preparing to exit or have 'aged out' of foster care or other court ordered placement, meet the challenges of living independently and transition successfully to adulthood.Case Management provides coordination and linkage to available community resources.

Services include life skills training and experimental learning opportunities, assistance in obtaining and maintaining a safe and stable place to live, assistance in identifying and achieving personal education and employment goals, access to financial assistance to meet emergency or short-term needs, and assistance in obtaining medical care and mental health services.

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Supervised Living for Older Youth
Case/Care Management
Transitional Housing/Shelter
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Life Skills Education
Occupation Specific Job Training
Assistance for eligible persons interested in obtaining a CDL license or CNA certification including tuition, books, and testing. Some allowable courses are available and subject to approval based on length of the course and date the course completes.

Categories

Occupation Specific Job Training
Education Related Fee Payment Assistance

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.

Categories

Job Training Resource Lists
Veteran Employment Programs
Career Counseling
Prejob Guidance
WIOA Programs
Education Related Fee Payment Assistance
Job Search/Placement
Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
On the Job Training
Apprenticeship Training
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
Occupation Specific Job Training
Scholarships
General Youth Employment Programs
Educational Testing
Provides services that are designed to give individuals with disabilities the opportunity to obtain employment in the community.

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.

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
Welfare to Work Programs
Job Search/Placement

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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Vocational Rehabilitation
Subsidized Employment
Vocational Assessment
Prevocational Training

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

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.

Categories

Vocational Rehabilitation
Subsidized Employment
Vocational Assessment
Prevocational Training

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

Employment Related Advocacy Groups
Job Retraining
Job Search/Placement
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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Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Job Search/Placement
Work Permits
Unemployment Insurance
Job Retraining

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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Vocational Rehabilitation
Subsidized Employment
Vocational Assessment
Prevocational 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.

Categories

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