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Program Services Department

Employment Planning Service (EPS):

 

Employment Planning Services assist people seeking employment by teaching them about employment opportunities. EPS utilizes a model of exploration that may involve one or more of the following: situational assessments, paid work trials, job tryouts, job shadowing, and transitional employment. A situational assessment is designed to provide a person served with a sample of different jobs in a community setting. The person served may have several of these experiences before deciding the direction they want to pursue.

 

Employee Development Service (EDS):

 

Individualized services/supports to assist with developing or reestablishing skills, attitudes, personal characteristics, interpersonal skills, work behaviors, and functional capacities. This time-limited service can be provided through community work sites, job coaching, tutorial services, or within the organization as available and applicable. Some outcomes include developing job-seeking and keeping skills, exposure to various jobs, etc. Pre-Employment Transition Services: Services include job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, and self-advocacy instruction.

 

Community Employment Services (CES):  

 

• Job Development & Placement • As needed or wanted/ Job Site Training & Support (Job Coaching).

Waivered Services

Day Supports:

 

The goal of Day Support Services at WCI is to provide person-centered and individualized assessment and planning to help a person identify essential life skill needs and discover activities that enrich their life. Day Support Services can provide training, supervision, and support in essential life-skill areas, along with learning opportunities and support in the person’s preferred life-enriching activities.

 

Pre-Vocational Services:

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Prevocational Services at WCI aims to provide work-skills training and support services that advance people toward competitively paid employment in community jobs. Prevocational services focus on strengthening people’s fundamental work skills and achieving their individualized work-skill goals through meaningful work experiences and vocational training.

 

  Employment Services:

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  • Employment Explorations Services:   Services that help a person gain a better understanding of competitive,  integrated employment opportunities in their community. Exploration activities and experiences strengthen a person’s knowledge, interests, and preferences so they can make an informed decision about competitive employment.  

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  • Employment Development Services: Services that help a person gain a better understanding of competitive,  integrated employment opportunities in their community. Exploration activities and experiences strengthen a person’s knowledge, interests, and preferences so they can make an informed decision about competitive employment.

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  • Employment Support Services:  Individualized services and supports that help people maintain paid employment in community businesses/settings. Employment support services occur in integrated community settings. A person can receive individual and/or group employment support services.

Additional Program Information

Annual reports and oms

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