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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

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
Provides job training and work opportunities for adults with disabilities according to their interests and abilities. Individuals may train to work in one or more areas within The Workshop, which include laundry and dry cleaning, the Galena gift shop, janitorial services, and many more. Community based employment opportunities are also available.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Comprehensive disability-related employment programs that offer opportunities for individuals with disabilities to learn work skills.

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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.

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

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 a 13-week internship for adults with Down Syndrome. Helping to identify strengths and interests, while providing transferable job skills, and helping to build resumes for placement in a job or volunteer position 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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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Disability Related Center Based Employment
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.

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.

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.

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

Designed to assist Social Security Disability (SSI/SSDI) beneficiaries with the transition from Social Security Disability Benefits to work. It provides employment supports and services to help reach work goals.

RAMP also has a certified Community Partner Work Incentives Counselor (CPWIC) that can assist individuals with understanding their benefits and the changes that will occur once employed.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Supported Employment
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.

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

Offers employment services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Individuals participating in the vocational program receive job skill education and assessment, job coaching and pre-vocational services as needed.

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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

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.

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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Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Job Search/Placement
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Job Retraining

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
Specialist helps individuals through coordination and assistance of a placement plan, goals, resource building, refining of the job search, retaining job leads, setting up informal interviews, job shadowing opportunities, assessments, internships and placement in a permanent job.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs

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

Designed to assist Social Security Disability (SSI/SSDI) beneficiaries with the transition from Social Security Disability Benefits to work. It provides employment supports and services to help reach work goals.

RAMP also has a certified Community Partner Work Incentives Counselor (CPWIC) that can assist individuals with understanding their benefits and the changes that will occur once employed.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Supported Employment