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909 South 14th Avenue, Marshalltown, IA 50158

MIW, Inc (Mid-Iowa Workshops)

Provides an employment program for individuals with disabilities. Participants learn to apply job development skills such as interviewing, completing a job application, and/or writing a resume. These skills will be learned during MIW's Employment Preparation class. In addition, MIW staff will job coach and help with team-building skills, which includes interaction with supervisors and co-workers. The goal is successful placement within the community.

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United Way of the Midlands
1025 Wade Street, Iowa City, IA 52240

Goodwill of the Heartland - Iowa City

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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United Way of the Midlands
4101 Woolworth Avenue, Omaha, NE 68105

Omaha VA Medical Center

Helps veterans who have physical and mental health challenges find and keep jobs through three different services:

Transitional work program - matches each veteran’s skills with a specific job and provides supervision to help them gain work experience.

Supported employment program - provides long-term support for veterans with serious mental illnesses or physical disabilities to help them compete for jobs in their communities.

Vocational assistance program - trains veterans living at the VA residential facility to improve job search and career development skills.

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United Way of the Midlands
925 American Way SW, Cedar Rapids, IA 52404

Systems Unlimited - Cedar Rapids

Provides individualized services and supports for adults with developmental disabilities in the areas of employment, skill development, social activities, and recreation opportunities.

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United Way of the Midlands
1910 North Chestnut, Wahoo, NE 68066

Apace - Wahoo

Employment agency for job seekers with developmental disabilities.

Career planning, job placement, and ongoing support and consultation to employee and employer.

Provides community based day services, residential supports, and respite services.

Diversity training to employers on working with people experiencing developmental disabilities.

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United Way of the Midlands
615 South Beltline Highway East, Suite B, Scottsbluff, NE 69361

Western Nebraska Services

Supports involvement at work and in the community through habilitative community inclusion, habilitative workshop, prevocational services, and supported employment services.

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United Way of the Midlands
165 West Burlinton Avenue, Burlington, IA 52601

Goodwill of the Heartland - Burlington

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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United Way of the Midlands
1211 East 18th Street, Carroll, IA 51401

New Hope

Provides disability services, including intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities, daily and hourly home-based habilitation and support community living, day habilitation, and supported employment.

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United Way of the Midlands
2309 Euclid Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50310

Behavioral Health and Disability Services - Euclid Avenue

Offers a Disability Access Point, or "DAP", which helps individuals with disabilities, their families, and their caregivers find the services and support they need-both short-term and long-term. DAPs help by giving information, making plans, making referrals and checking in to make sure people are getting the right support to live healthy, independent lives.

Can help with the following services:

- Information and Assistance - Based on presented and identified needs, provides information about programs and services, and helps to connect individuals to service providers in their communities.

- Options Counseling - Provides guidance to individuals so that they may make informed choices about supports and services, typically over a period of 90 days or less. This includes benefits screening and application assistance for programs and services and follow-ups to make sure supports and decisions are assisting the individual.

- Short-term services and supports (STSS) - Include adaptive and assistive equipment, home and vehicle modifications, peer and parent support services, transportation assistance, and other basic needs (time- limited, not covered by insurance). For STSS, individuals will engage in a short-term person-centered plan around services and supports.

- Long-term services and supports - Includes adult day programs, consumer-directed attendant care (CDAC) (non-skilled and skilled), day habilitation, employment like job skills training, prevocational services, and supported employment, intensive residential services (IRSH), personal response systems, respite services like in-home, in-facility, and day camps, supported community living (SCL) and home-based habilitation (hourly), and residential living settings.

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United Way of the Midlands
1225 South Harrison Avenue, Mason City, IA 50401

Becker Center - Marketplace and Lunch

Offers training to people with disabilities in manufacturing, retail, and janitorial jobs. The retail program takes place at Affordalbes and Market Place Thrift Shops and teaches how to use a cash register, stock shelves, and help customers. the manufacturing program includes making and reusing items for sale in the thrift shop.

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United Way of the Midlands
900 South Deere Road, Macomb, IL 61455

Bridgeway - Macomb

Helps people with disabilities find employment in many different settings (office, food service, retail, manufacturing, etc). Services are offered to help individuals build the skills they will need to get and keep employment.

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United Way of the Midlands
3604 Summit Plaza Drive, Bellevue, NE 68123

Eastern Nebraska Human Services Agency and DUET (formerly ENCOR) - Cass/Sarpy

Services to persons with developmental disabilities.

Residential services, alternative living.

Vocational services.

Family and medical support services, respite care.

Supported employment services and job search.

Contract Procurement/ Enclaves/Business in Industry.

Shared Living Provider.

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United Way of the Midlands
902 Day Street, Shenandoah, IA 51601

Nishna Productions, Inc.

Provides assistance in securing and maintaining a job in the community.  Services include work evaluation, work adjustment, job coaching, job development, and community based vocational assessment.

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United Way of the Midlands
11340 Blondo Street, Omaha, NE 68164

Eastern Nebraska Human Services Agency and DUET (formerly ENCOR) - North

Services to persons with developmental disabilities.

Residential services, alternative living.

Vocational services.

Family and medical support services, respite care.

Supported employment services and job search.

Contract Procurement/ Enclaves/Business in Industry.

Shared Living Provider.

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United Way of the Midlands
1719 Aspen Circle, Grand Island, NE 68803

Eastern Nebraska Human Services Agency and DUET (formerly ENCOR) - Grand Island

Services to persons with developmental disabilities.

Residential services, alternative living.

Vocational services.

Family and medical support services, respite care.

Supported employment services and job search.

Contract Procurement/ Enclaves/Business in Industry.

Shared Living Provider.

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United Way of the Midlands
4504 Westside Drive, Dubuque, IA 52003

Imagine the Possibilities Region 4 - Dubuque

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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United Way of the Midlands
201 F Street, Fairbury, NE 68352

Apace - Fairbury

Employment agency for job seekers with developmental disabilities.

Career planning, job placement, and ongoing support and consultation to employee and employer.

Provides community based day services, residential supports, and respite services.

Diversity training to employers on working with people experiencing developmental disabilities.

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United Way of the Midlands
615 North Washington, Corydon, IA 50060

Southern Iowa Resources for Families - Corydon

Provides residential and vocational support services to persons with mental and physical disabilities. Includes HCBS waiver programs, supported community living, transportation, job coaching and placement, CDAC, medication management, independent living skills, and payee services for clients.

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United Way of the Midlands
821 West Oklahoma Avenue, Suite 2, Grand Island, NE 68801

Mosaic - Central Nebraska

Supported employment provides vocational services which promote and support inclusion within the community. Encourages and assists people in obtaining jobs in the community or running their own small business. The focus is on assessing interest, job placement, and job coaching. Job coaching provides training for clients to perform job tasks to the employer's specifications and to learn the interpersonal skills necessary to be accepted as workers at the job site. Vocational centers provide training to teach people vocational skills and an opportunity to earn an income through completion of contract work.

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United Way of the Midlands
4433 South 70th Street, Suite 200, Lincoln, NE 68516

Apace Central Office

Employment agency for job seekers with developmental disabilities.

Career planning, job placement, and ongoing support and consultation to employee and employer.

Provides community based day services, residential supports, and respite services.

Diversity training to employers on working with people experiencing developmental disabilities.

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United Way of the Midlands
1800 West 22nd Street, Atlantic, IA 50022

Trivium Life Services - Atlantic, IA

Offers two levels of Supported Community Living Services designed to meet the daily living needs of adults with disabilities and mental illness. These services increase a client's independence and provide a level of relief for family members and caretakers. The level of service is determined by the individual, guardians, case managers, and providers to best suit their needs.

Services may include employment assistance, day habilitation programs, and more.

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United Way of the Midlands
835 Gordon Drive, Sioux City, IA 51101

Trivium Life Services - Sioux City, IA

Offers two levels of Supported Community Living Services designed to meet the daily living needs of adults with disabilities and mental illness. These services increase a client's independence and provide a level of relief for family members and caretakers. The level of service is determined by the individual, guardians, case managers, and providers to best suit their needs.

Services may include employment assistance, day habilitation programs, and more.

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United Way of the Midlands
117 1st Avenue West, Oskaloosa, IA 52577

First Resources Corporation - Oskaloosa

Provides services that are designed to give individuals with disabilities the opportunity to obtain employment in the community.

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United Way of the Midlands
101 East Mission Avenue, Bellevue, NE 68005

Hands of Heartland, Inc.

Day Centers and Residential Services (7 day centers and group homes in the Omaha area) Assisted and supported residential services, including community integration, behavior management, housekeeping, medication management, rehabilitation counseling, transportation training, money management, personal hygiene skills, leisure, socialization and recreation, and menu planning. Supportive employment opportunities in conjunction with vocational rehabilitation. Supported and assisted day services including community activities (volunteer work sites), contractual work, daily living skills, leisure activities in the community, computer skills training, and arts and craft activities.

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United Way of the Midlands
2213 Mount Olivet Road, Waukon, IA 52172

Training Advancement Skills In the Community

Provides evaluation and training in work behavior skills, work performance skills, on-the-job training, job coaching and supported employment, work experience, job development, and job placement.

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United Way of the Midlands