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Helps individuals identify their vocational interests, professional goals and then assists them to build a roadmap to success.  Services include:

-- 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 residential and vocational supports to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities or brain injuries. Affiliated corporation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and non-denominational in service.

Offers a Disability Access Point (DAP) that helps individuals with disabilities, their families, and caregivers find services and supports they need, both short-term and long-term. DAPs provide information, help individuals make informed choices, make referrals, and follow up to help ensure individuals receive the support they need to live healthy, independent lives.

Services include:

• Information and Assistance: Provides information about programs and services based on identified needs and helps connect individuals with service providers in their communities.

• Options Counseling: Helps individuals make informed choices about available supports and services, typically for up to 90 days. Services may include benefits screening, application assistance, and follow-up to ensure supports are meeting the individual's needs.

• Financial Assistance: Provides gap funding and service coordination for programs and services that support individuals and caregivers and help individuals remain in the home and community of their choice. Assistance may include short-term and long-term services.

Short-Term Supports (time-limited): Services may include adaptive and assistive equipment, home and vehicle modifications, peer and parent support services, transportation assistance, and other basic needs not covered by insurance.

Long-Term Services and Supports: Services may include adult day programs, consumer-directed attendant care (CDAC) (non-skilled and skilled), day habilitation, employment services, including job skills training, prevocational services, and supported employment, intensive residential services (IRSH), personal response systems, respite services, including in-home, in-facility, and day camps, home-based habilitation (hourly), and residential living settings.

Provides vocational assessments, job coaching and supported employment services. In addition, support for students with disabilities pursuing post-secondary education is available.

Provides a voluntary program for individuals receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to assist with skill development and employment. Services include job search support, structured job search activities, and classroom training, which includes computer literacy instruction to help participants learn or improve their skills in using computers, hardware, and various software applications.

Provides a Veteran's Employment Specialist to assist with coordinating counseling, testing, and identifying training and employment opportunities for veterans.

• Class A Commercial Driver's License Certificate
• Certified Professional Medical Coder
• Certified Nursing Assistant
• CNC Machining
• Construction Equipment Operator
• Industrial Maintenance
• Introduction to Construction Trades
• Patient Access and Front Desk
• Pharmacy Technician
• Production Welding

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.

Offers work training to young men and women 18-25. Program offers opportunities in job training, goal setting, life skill classes, and discipleship.

Workforce development through the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). Provides job training and job-seeking assistance to economically disadvantaged persons, dislocated workers, and youth.

Provides a Veteran's Employment Specialist to assist with coordinating counseling, testing, and identifying training and employment opportunities for veterans.

Offers free Certified Nursing Assistant classes to individuals interested in employment in healthcare.

- Two-week course covers essential skills such as healthcare basics, patient assistance, vital sign monitoring, nursing procedures, medical terminology, and more.

Social Security’s Ticket to Work program supports career development for Social Security disability beneficiaries age 18 through 64 who want to work. The Ticket program is free and voluntary. The Ticket program helps people with disabilities progress toward financial independence.

Social Security’s Ticket to Work program supports career development for Social Security disability beneficiaries age 18 through 64 who want to work. The Ticket program is free and voluntary. The Ticket program helps people with disabilities progress toward financial independence.

Provides a Veteran's Employment Specialist to assist with coordinating counseling, testing, and identifying training and employment opportunities for veterans.

Social Security’s Ticket to Work program supports career development for Social Security disability beneficiaries age 18 through 64 who want to work. The Ticket program is free and voluntary. The Ticket program helps people with disabilities progress toward financial independence.

Offers a Disability Access Point (DAP) that helps individuals with disabilities, their families, and caregivers find services and supports they need, both short-term and long-term. DAPs provide information, help individuals make informed choices, make referrals, and follow up to help ensure individuals receive the support they need to live healthy, independent lives.

Services include:

• Information and Assistance: Provides information about programs and services based on identified needs and helps connect individuals with service providers in their communities.

• Options Counseling: Helps individuals make informed choices about available supports and services, typically for up to 90 days. Services may include benefits screening, application assistance, and follow-up to ensure supports are meeting the individual's needs.

• Financial Assistance: Provides gap funding and service coordination for programs and services that support individuals and caregivers and help individuals remain in the home and community of their choice. Assistance may include short-term and long-term services.

Short-Term Supports (time-limited): Services may include adaptive and assistive equipment, home and vehicle modifications, peer and parent support services, transportation assistance, and other basic needs not covered by insurance.

Long-Term Services and Supports: Services may include adult day programs, consumer-directed attendant care (CDAC) (non-skilled and skilled), day habilitation, employment services, including job skills training, prevocational services, and supported employment, intensive residential services (IRSH), personal response systems, respite services, including in-home, in-facility, and day camps, home-based habilitation (hourly), and residential living settings.

Provides a voluntary program for individuals receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to assist with skill development and employment. Services include job search support, structured job search activities, and classroom training, which includes computer literacy instruction to help participants learn or improve their skills in using computers, hardware, and various software applications.

Provides American Indian employment and training programs. 

Provides a Veteran's Employment Specialist to assist with coordinating counseling, testing, and identifying training and employment opportunities for veterans.

Provides a voluntary program for individuals receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to assist with skill development and employment. Services include job search support, structured job search activities, and classroom training, which includes computer literacy instruction to help participants learn or improve their skills in using computers, hardware, and various software applications.