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

Provides American Indian employment and training programs.

Provides individualized services to Iowans with disabilities to achieve their independence through successful employment and economic support.

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Vocational Assessment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Subsidized Employment
Prevocational Training
Services are designed to prepare a person for paid or unpaid employment in skills which are not job task oriented. Services include attending to tasks, task completion, problem solving, and safety and mobility training, appropriate dress, meal options for the workplace, appropriate interactions, communication, socialization, and phone skills.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
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.

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

Offers to assist youth and young adults to obtain full time sustainable employment at livable wages. In this process, if training/ schooling is needed to obtain this goal, the program can assist with tuition for schooling and job placement. Provides supportive services such as transportation, childcare assistance, required materials for schooling.

Other services offered, placement in Paid Work Experience (temporary work up to 350 hours), On-The-Job training employer subsidy program (permanent full-time work).

Provides individualized services to Iowans with disabilities to achieve their independence through successful employment and economic support.

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Vocational Assessment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Subsidized Employment
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.

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Job Search/Placement
Welfare to Work Programs
Occupation Specific Job Training
Job placement and maintenance services assist people in obtaining community employment. Participants receive individualized and group support in resume development, job search and interviewing strategies, and networking. Job Placement Specialists help participants assess their strengths and needs, set personal goals, and explore their vocational interests. Staff also connect job seekers to area employers.

Certified for Success employment training programs include retail, hospitality, food handling, essential computer skills, IT Support Professional, and custodial certification programs. A combination of onsite and classroom training helps prepare participants for success.

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Prevocational Training
Vocational Assessment
Job Search/Placement
Supported 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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Welfare to Work Programs
Occupation Specific Job Training
Job Search/Placement

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 Search/Placement
Job Retraining
Employment Related Advocacy Groups
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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Prevocational Training
Vocational Rehabilitation
Supported Employment

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
Occupation Specific Job Training
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Transitional Housing/Shelter
Life Skills Education
Case/Care Management
Job placement and maintenance services assist people in obtaining community employment. Participants receive individualized and group support in resume development, job search and interviewing strategies, and networking. Job Placement Specialists help participants assess their strengths and needs, set personal goals, and explore their vocational interests. Staff also connect job seekers to area employers.

Certified for Success employment training programs include retail, hospitality, food handling, essential computer skills, IT Support Professional, and custodial certification programs. A combination of onsite and classroom training helps prepare participants for success.

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Prevocational Training
Vocational Assessment
Job Search/Placement
Supported Employment
Technical assistance to potential and existing apprenticeship program sponsors and apprentices.

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 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.

Categories

Welfare to Work Programs
Occupation Specific Job Training
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.

Categories

Work Permits
Job Search/Placement
Job Retraining
Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Unemployment Insurance
Provides individualized services to Iowans with disabilities to achieve their independence through successful employment and economic support.

Categories

Vocational Assessment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Subsidized Employment
Prevocational Training

The Immigrant Culinary Integration program is designed to ensure equitable access, personal and professional development, and opportunity for the refugee/immigrant community. Students learn how to secure food and ingredients similar to products in their native lands, live healthier lives, and sustain economic and social development in our communities.

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Occupation Specific Job Training
Cultural Transition Counseling

90-day workforce development program in which participants undergo full-time education and job training, dedicating half their time to personalized high school completion and the remainder to earning industry-recognized credentials, primarily in Construction, CDL, CNA, Culinary, and Welding.

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Prejob Guidance
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
Prevocational Training
Vocational Education

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

Job Search/Placement
Job Retraining
Employment Related Advocacy Groups

Provides individualized programming for adults with developmental, physical, and medical disabilities. Offers the following services:
- Developing social skills and other everyday skills
- Various kinds of therapy
- Activities of daily living
- Pre-vocational and vocational skills training
- Communication development
- Community/vocational outings.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Vocational Rehabilitation
Prevocational Training
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs
Disability Services Including intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilites, daily and hourly home-based habilitation and support community living, day habilitation, and supported employment.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Centers for Independent Living
Vocational Assessment
Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals With Developmental Disabilities
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Supported Employment
Prevocational Training

Offers bus driver training. Providing two types of Bus Driver courses. An 8-hour initial training is required for all new school bus drivers prior to getting a bus permit and 2-hour refresher workshop is required in the 12-month period prior to renew a school bus permit.