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Offers personalized employment supports to obtain, maintain, or advance in employment. Examples of support include goal setting, resume preparation, job search assistance, resource navigation, benefits education, healthcare advisement and work incentives counseling.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Ticket to Work/Self Sufficiency Program
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs

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.

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

Offers employment services for individuals with developmental disabilities. Services include training and skill development, assistance in obtaining community employment, employer education and support, initial evaluation, on the job training, follow up support, and transition planning.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Employment services for people with disabilties.

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Prevocational Training
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Job Search/Placement

Provides various employment services to individuals with disabilities. Employment services include:

- Career counseling.

- Resume and cover letter development.

- Assistance with finding job leads.

- Interview practice.

- Assistance with securing public or private transportation.

- Job coaching.

- Assistance with identifying possible job accommodations.

Provides various employment services to individuals with disabilities. Employment services include:

- Career counseling.

- Resume and cover letter development.

- Assistance with finding job leads.

- Interview practice.

- Assistance with securing public or private transportation.

- Job coaching.

- Assistance with identifying possible job accommodations.

Provides a paid job training program for young adults with disabilities who have exited school.

- Job training program for young adults with disabilities who have exited school and are unemployed.

- Provides classroom instruction, assisting participants with job readiness and employability skills.

- Participants simultaneously participate in paid work experiences within the community.

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On the Job Training
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs

Offers a resource center for self-help job seekers. Can also provide inter- and intra-state employment placement information, referrals to training, labor market information, job search assistance, resume assistance, and veteran employment services. Proficiency testing and testing for state employment is available.

Also offers information on workers compensation, unemployment insurance, and comprehensive disability employment programs.

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Workers Compensation
Prejob Guidance
Unemployment Insurance
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Job Search/Placement
Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers

Offers supported employment opportunities to individuals who have both the desire to work in an integrated work setting and employment abilities for this setting. The two main goals of these services are to give the individuals the opportunity to earn competitive wages and allow these wages to be earned in an integrated work setting.

Provides vocational training for persons who require a higher level of care than is available through other Hope Haven programs. Individuals receiving services must have a primary diagnosis of a mental disability and must be certified by the Iowa Foundation for Medical Care to be in need of this level of service.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Supported Employment
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs
Vocational Rehabilitation

Offers 10-week long internships for individuals with disabilities that provide vocational skills in a variety of hospital departments. At the completion of the internships, students are placed into competitive employment.

Three main categories of internships:

- Operations: stocking linens and supplies, dock, assembling and cleaning equipment, delivering linens/equipment, completing work orders, sanitizing, etc.

- Clerical: data entry, scanning, making and receiving phone calls, alphabetizing, minimal patient interaction, shredding, using copying machines, sorting mail, etc.

- Hospitality: food and beverage prep, customer service, cashiering, stocking food items, cleaning spills, catering, refilling creamer and coffee machines, catering, identifying specialty items, etc.

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On the Job Training
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs

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.

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.

Provides services to help individuals with disabilities find and keep a job, services include: job placement, job skills training, and supported employment.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs

Provides a supported employment program for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities. Services include job search assistance, job coaching, supported employment, and job skills training within the community.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs

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.

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

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.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs

Provides Employment Specialists to help individuals identify the best work environments based upon one's gifts, strengths, and interests that align with an employer's needs and desires. Services include job assessments, development, coaching, and long-term support between the individual and the employer.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Provides working age adults with disabilities a chance to be employed in the workforce through businesses in the Cedar Valley area. Offers individualized opportunities to match the employer needs and the skills and interests of the applicant. Will advocate for the employer through on-going supports to ensure the quality of the work, support any changes in responsibilities of the employee and advocate for the employee through ensuring job security and advancement opportunities.

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.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs

Provides services to help individuals with disabilities find and keep a job, services include: job placement, job skills training, and supported employment.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs

Provides services to help individuals with disabilities find and keep a job, services include: job placement, job skills training, and supported employment.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs

Offers supported employment opportunities to individuals who have both the desire to work in an integrated work setting and employment abilities for this setting. The two main goals of these services are to give the individuals the opportunity to earn competitive wages and allow these wages to be earned in an integrated work setting.

Provides vocational training for persons who require a higher level of care than is available through other Hope Haven programs. Individuals receiving services must have a primary diagnosis of a mental disability and must be certified by the Iowa Foundation for Medical Care to be in need of this level of service.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Supported Employment
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs
Vocational Rehabilitation

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.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs

Offers employment services for individuals with developmental disabilities and visual impairments. Workers may be placed in supported employment or competitive employment. The goal of the program is to provide training for the individual, find a flexible job, and learn to be independent.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs

Offers supported employment opportunities to individuals who have both the desire to work in an integrated work setting and employment abilities for this setting. The two main goals of these services are to give the individuals the opportunity to earn competitive wages and allow these wages to be earned in an integrated work setting.

Provides vocational training for persons who require a higher level of care than is available through other Hope Haven programs. Individuals receiving services must have a primary diagnosis of a mental disability and must be certified by the Iowa Foundation for Medical Care to be in need of this level of service.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Supported Employment
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs
Vocational Rehabilitation