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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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Occupation Specific Job Training
Job Retraining
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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Unemployment Insurance
Job Retraining
Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Job Search/Placement
Work Permits

Provides a program for youth who have limited or no prior work experience and are experiencing barriers to employment to have an opportunity to participate in a paid work experience with local businesses. Work experiences are typically 4-12 weeks in length, but may be longer depending on the needs of the participant.

Services include:

- Career and guidance counseling.

- Education preparation and planning.

- Paid vocational training.

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Prejob Guidance
Career Counseling
General Youth Employment Programs
Prevocational Training
High School Equivalency/GED Test Sites
Work Experience
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction

Offers school bus driver training and refresher courses.

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

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 Retraining
Job Search/Placement
Employment Related Advocacy Groups

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
Welfare to Work Programs
Job Search/Placement
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

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 services that are designed to give individuals with disabilities the opportunity to obtain employment in the community.
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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Unemployment Insurance
Job Retraining
Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Job Search/Placement
Work Permits
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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Unemployment Insurance
Job Retraining
Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Job Search/Placement
Work Permits
Vocational Training/Supported Employment teaches a variety of work skills including interpersonal skills, attitude, cooperation, teamwork, communication skills, and time management. With the assistance of a job developer and a job coach, the client may be able to secure a job in the community.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Prevocational Training
Supported Employment
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
Initial and refresher trainings required for school bus drivers are conducted regularly throughout the year through the ROE. New bus drivers need to take an 8-hour course. Bus drivers are required to take a 2-hour refresher course each year.

Provides augmentative and alternative communication options through assistive technology, which enables children and youth with disabilities to participate more fully in all aspects of life. Augmentative and Alternative Communication includes various communication methods that enhance or replace verbal speech or writing for individuals with communication disabilities. Check the team resource folders for additional Assistive Technology & Augmentative and Alternative Communication information for IEP teams to consider and utilize including AT Information and Tools, AAC Information and Tools, or use the form link on the website to request AAC Collaboration.

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Occupation Specific Job Training
Assistive Technology Equipment
Provides individualized services to Iowans with disabilities to achieve their independence through successful employment and economic support.

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Prevocational Training
Vocational Rehabilitation
Vocational Assessment
Subsidized Employment
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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Job Search/Placement
Occupation Specific Job Training
Welfare to Work Programs
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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Unemployment Insurance
Job Retraining
Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Job Search/Placement
Work Permits
Employment and training services to assist SNAP recipients with preparing for and getting a good career.

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
Welfare to Work Programs
Job Search/Placement
Offers a national pre-apprenticeship educational, leadership, development and occupational skills-training program for disadvantaged and at-risk youth ages 16-24. This community-based pre-apprenticeship program provides job training and educational opportunities for youth who previously dropped out of high school.

In the program, young adults learn vocational skills in construction and provide community service through the required construction or rehabilitation of affordable housing for low-income or homeless families in their own communities. Youth split their time between the vocational training work site and the classroom, where they earn their high school diploma or equivalency degree, learn to become community leaders, and prepare for post-secondary training opportunities, including college, apprenticeships and employment. YouthBuild includes significant support systems, such as mentoring, follow-up education, employment and personal counseling services; participation in community service; and civic engagement.

Offers academic and technical skills classes to help students develop skills for career goals. Students can earn associate degrees and certifications in a wide variety of disciplines. Student services offer an early childhood lab school for the children of students and staff, as well as workforce support and other assistance.


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High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
English as a Second Language
Community Colleges
Adult Basic Education
Apprenticeship 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.

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Occupation Specific Job Training
Education Related Fee Payment Assistance
Assists qualified individuals pursuing a career in occupations in the health-care industry such as Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA), Direct Care Professional, Pharmacy Technician, Phlebotomist, EMT/Paramedic, LPN, Medical Assistant, Surgical Technician, RN and Medical Laboratory Technician. Most of the individuals served by the grant will have barriers to education and employment.

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Continuing Education
Occupation Specific Job Training