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:
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.
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