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

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.

Designed to assist people with disabilities 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 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
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
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
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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Vocational Rehabilitation
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Disability Related Center Based Employment
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 Disability Related Employment Programs
Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Job Retraining
Job Search/Placement

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
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

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

Empowers and enables people with disabilities and mental illness to secure community-based 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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Supported Employment
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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Job Search/Placement
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Unemployment Insurance
Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Workers Compensation
Prejob Guidance
Employment services for people with disabilties.

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Prevocational Training
Job Search/Placement
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs

Provides a comprehensive employment assistance program to individuals who have lost their jobs through plant closings and layoffs. Services also provides other programs and services for enhancing one's educational skills for 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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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Ticket to Work/Self Sufficiency Program
Vocational Rehabilitation

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.

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

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

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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
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

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