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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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Supported Employment
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs

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
Vocational Rehabilitation
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs

Provides work training services for individuals with intellectual, developmental, learning, medical, or physical disabilities as well as substance use and mental health disorders. These work training activities are paid work and non-competitive. Participants are provided with opportunities to explore their personal vocational interests, develop skills, and receive assistance in obtaining competitive community employment.

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

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 to match people who have disabilities with employment opportunities in the community.

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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.

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

Provides work training services for individuals with intellectual, developmental, learning, medical, or physical disabilities as well as substance use and mental health disorders. These work training activities are paid work and non-competitive. Participants are provided with opportunities to explore their personal vocational interests, develop skills, and receive assistance in obtaining competitive community 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

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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Disability Related Center Based Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation
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.

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

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

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 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
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 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 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.

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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Supported Employment
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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Supported Employment
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Vocational Rehabilitation
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation 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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Disability Related Center Based Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation
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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Vocational Rehabilitation
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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Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Workers Compensation
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Job Search/Placement
Prejob Guidance
Unemployment Insurance