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Provides evaluation and training in work behavior skills, work performance skills, on-the-job training, job coaching and supported employment, work experience, job development, and job placement.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Supported Employment

Empowers and enables people with disabilities and mental illness to secure community-based employment.

Offers pre-employment training and retirement programs designed to meet individual needs. Programs are designed to provide experiences to assist people in developing the necessary skills to make informed choices, and increase their level of independence.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
IowaWorks of Decorah is a comprehensive job center providing support and services to assist people in becoming successfully employed. This office also provides the services of the unemployment compensation program. Services include: Employment workshops to help job seekers develop job seeking and successful employment skills; Computerized job search tools and the necessary assistive technology for individuals with visual, hearing, or physical disabilities to enable them to use these tools; and Unemployment compensation application and administration for people who have lost a job.

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Job Retraining
Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Job Search/Placement
Employment services for people with disabilties.

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Prevocational Training
Job Search/Placement
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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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation

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

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.

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 part-time job opportunities for individuals with disabilities in a supportive and integrated work environment at several federal properties.

Employees work both independently and in a team setting while providing valuable services to government partners. All positions provide accommodations to increase the success of employment. Employees work with a support staff to make the placement successful.

Long-term employment opportunities are available at Offutt Air Force Base, the Zorinsky Federal Building in Omaha and the Denney Federal Building in Lincoln. Positions include custodial, postal services and grounds maintenance.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Supported Employment

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

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.

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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
Vocational Rehabilitation
Supported Employment
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation 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
Vocational Rehabilitation
Supported Employment
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation 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
Provides employment search and placement services for persons with serious mental illness. Provides clients with follow-along support to encourage long-term integration and success.

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.

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.

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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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Vocational Rehabilitation

Offers job search assistance, job coaching, supported employment, and job skills training in-house and within the community to help clients secure and keep jobs in the community.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Supported Employment

Supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities to find jobs in the community.

-- Discovery: Helps to learn about a client's strengths and interests through observation, conversation, and spending time with clients to help find jobs that fit their goals. Family and friends are also interviewed to learn about a client's likes, dislikes, and strengths. Two home visits and a community visit are conducted.

-- Job Development: Employment Specialists teach social and communication skills needed to be successful at work. They support with touring businesses, job shadowing, and finding a job match. Also provide help creating a resume to give to potential employers. May begin with volunteering so that clients can gain experience and grow skills.

-- Employment Support: After a client is hired, Employment Support develops accommodations and supports for the job. Employment Support forms a relationship with the employer and supports the client to expand job roles. Provides initial job coaching for 2-4 weeks.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Supported Employment
Provides employment search and placement services for persons with serious mental illness. Provides clients with follow-along support to encourage long-term integration and success.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs

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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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Vocational Rehabilitation

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