- Vocational training for adults with developmental disabilities and/or mental illnesses - Work skills development - Supported employment - Community employment

Individuals with disabilities learn basic skills, attitudes, and work behaviors necessary to obtain and maintain employment. Works with staff to build work skills, set career goals, and prepare for employment.

- Vocational training for adults with developmental disabilities and/or mental illnesses - Work skills development - Supported employment - Community employment

- Once ODC trainees and employees are ready for employment, individualized job seeking/job retention skills are taught - The ODC placement staff works closely with each person during the placement process so that exploring job resources, writing resumes, and job interviewing become lifelong skills - Two to four week evaluations within private companies can be used - This allows an employer to critique the participant's performance without obligation to hire and provides the individual useful appraisal information - ODC staff provide consultation and follow-up services for those moving into community employment to assure a smooth transition

- - Day training and habilitation - - - Employment transitioning training - - - Extended employment for people with disabilities - - - Job placement services - - - Mental health vocational programs - - - Supervised community living residential services - - - Senior services - - - School-to-work transition - - - Supervised community living residential services - - - Transportation services - - - Vocational assessment - - - Work, training and professional contact opportunities

Individualized employment services and support for people with disabilities include: - Day program for adults with developmental disabilities - Employment exploration services: Help to explore work and introduce employment options. This service helps people to make an informed choice about working in competitive, integrated employment. - Employment development services: Help to plan for competitive employment, including identifying goals and discovering strengths. May help in finding employment if Vocational Rehabilitation Services is not available. - Employment support services: Help to maintain community employment in an individual or group setting.- Rehabilitation/habilitative service - Exercise Therapy: Provides individualized exercise plans for cardiovascular health, mobility, and dexterity. We also help individuals with physical therapy plans prescribed to individuals by doctors and physical therapists.?? - Habilitation Services: Provides individualized training/support in skills needed for day-to-day living and community integration. - Life Enrichment Services: Provides a space for service recipients to participate in activities they enjoy doing that make their lives better. - Vocational Services: Provides on-site paid opportunities with various jobs from area businesses. ?

Winona ORC Industries is a non-profit agency providing vocational and employment services for adults with disabilities. Services include: - Vocational preparation - Short-term training on job sites in the community and on-going follow-up and training - Jobs skills classes - Liaisons between employer and employee and education of employers about disabilities - Center-based employment in areas of packaging, assembly, machining, and recycling - Community-based employment where clients work in small groups at local businesses under the guidance of a job coach - Supported employment in direct hire positions and follow up services once the client is hired - Stepping into Competitive Employment (IPS) offering job placement and support for persons with serious mental illness

Provides habilitation services

- Vocational training for adults with developmental disabilities and/or mental illnesses - Work skills development - Supported employment - Community employment

Ability Building Community offers vocational and employment services. ABC Works is a licensed Day Training and Habilitation program for people with barriers to employment. The program offers skills development and work and volunteer opportunities in the communities and in Ability Building Community facilities.

Provides day training and habilitation programs: - Community Integration: Guidance on banking, communication, errands, and educational outings - Employer Workforce Support: Labor solutions with full administrative/training support - Life Skills: Training in cooking, hygiene, healthy living, gardening- Supported Employment: Paid, goal-specific work-both in-house and community-based - Transportation: Support for mobility and access to community resources

Employment services providing: - Placement and ongoing job coaching for individual placements - Pre-vocational training - Jobs in the community - Work skills development and training

- - Day training and habilitation - - - Employment transitioning training - - - Extended employment for people with disabilities - - - Job placement services - - - Mental health vocational programs - - - Supervised community living residential services - - - Senior services - - - School-to-work transition - - - Supervised community living residential services - - - Transportation services - - - Vocational assessment - - - Work, training and professional contact opportunities

- - Day training and habilitation - - - Employment transitioning training - - - Extended employment for people with disabilities - - - Job placement services - - - Mental health vocational programs - - - Supervised community living residential services - - - Senior services - - - School-to-work transition - - - Supervised community living residential services - - - Transportation services - - - Vocational assessment - - - Work, training and professional contact opportunities

Individualized employment services and support for people living with disabilities include: - Day Training: Provides choices on how to spend time on learning work or leisure activities - Employment Services: Helps individuals to explore work and introduce employment options. This service helps people to make an informed choice about working in competitive, integrated employment. - Habilitation - Prevocational Services: Offers training that focuses on building necessary skills and behaviors that the person needs to succeed in the community. ?

- Once ODC trainees and employees are ready for employment, individualized job seeking/job retention skills are taught - The ODC placement staff works closely with each person during the placement process so that exploring job resources, writing resumes, and job interviewing become lifelong skills - Two-week evaluations within private companies can be used - This allows an employer to critique the participant's performance without obligation to hire and provides the individual useful appraisal information -ODC staff provide consultation and follow-up services for those moving into community employment to assure a smooth transition

Individuals with disabilities learn basic skills, attitudes, and work behaviors necessary to obtain and maintain employment. Works with staff to build work skills, set career goals, and prepare for employment.

- Provides work orientation, work activity training, community orientation, and focus on personal habits as related to work and other aspects of daily living - The emphasis of this program will be the world of work and will include assistance in developing individual work habits and skills and developing a relationship between work and the community through supported employment and community orientation

Provides day training and habilitation programs: - Community Integration: Guidance on banking, communication, errands, and educational outings - Employer Workforce Support: Labor solutions with full administrative/training support - Life Skills: Training in cooking, hygiene, healthy living, gardening- Supported Employment: Paid, goal-specific work-both in-house and community-based - Transportation: Support for mobility and access to community resources

Ability Building Community (ABC) offers vocational and employment services. ABC Works is a program for people with barriers to employment. The program offers skills development and work and volunteer opportunities in the communities and in ABC facilities. ABC also offers supported employment services to assist people in finding and maintaining work outside of the Center. Participants are supported by an ABC staff and fellow crew members in the work environment. In addition, the Caledonia Center offers vocational evaluations, providing an assessment of work skills and interests. Leisure and Recreation opportunities are available.

- - Day training and habilitation - - - Employment transitioning training - - - Extended employment for people with disabilities - - - Job placement services - - - Mental health vocational programs - - - Supervised community living residential services - - - Senior services - - - School-to-work transition - - - Supervised community living residential services - - - Transportation services - - - Vocational assessment - - - Work, training and professional contact opportunities

Service which helps individuals explore career paths and choose employment based on their preferences, strengths, abilities, and needs.

Employment and employment-related services designed to increase integration into the community, increase productivity, increase income level, and improve the employment status or job advancement of the person served. Community integration services designed to increase or enhance each person's social and physical integration with non-disabled individuals in the community. Services include: - Employment skill training - Job search and placement assistance - Prevocational training - Supported employment - Independent employment placement

- Once ODC trainees and employees are ready for employment, individualized job seeking/job retention skills are taught - The ODC placement staff works closely with each person during the placement process so that exploring job resources, writing resumes, and job interviewing become lifelong skills - Two-week evaluations within private companies can be used - This allows an employer to critique the participant's performance without obligation to hire and provides the individual useful appraisal information - ODC staff provide consultation and follow-up services for those moving into community employment to assure a smooth transition

Provides help to improve reading, math, spelling, and writing skills, computer skills, GED test preparation, and GED testing. Also offers English as a secondary language and prep courses for vocational school or college.