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Provides community-based and residential services to adults living with a physical, intellectual, medical, mental health, and behavioral condition who need support. Offers long-term and short-term transitional support, focusing on individual's strengths and needs. All services are licensed and operating under the 245D statutes as adult foster care homes. Services provided: - 24-hour staffing serving two to four individuals - Community-based Services: Designed for flexible, personalized support in the individual's home and community providing respite care, crisis respite, companion services, homemaking services, community living support, and supported employment - Intensive Residential Treatment Services (IRTS): Short-term, structured mental health treatment of up to 90 days for adults experiencing a serious mental illness - Personalized support plans

Offering the following services: - Assistance with personal care - Behavioral support - Center-based production work is also offered to individuals - Community employment through individual placement or work crew - Individual placement services - Learning activities - Opportunities for community interaction - Senior program: RSVP program; crafts and classes; day trips - Training and employment for individuals who want to work full-time - Work adjustment training - Work assessment

Offers employment services for adults and students, services include: - Exploring Employment: Helps individuals explore job interests, develop skills, and learn about different careers through job shadowing, informational interviews, and short-term job tryouts. Includes resume building, interview prep, and job search support. - Finding a Job: Offers personalized help with job placement, applications, resume writing, and interview coaching. Also includes training for self-employment or microbusiness development. - Maintaining Employment: Provides job coaching, workplace support, and advocacy to help individuals stay employed and grow in their careers. Assistance with transportation and accommodations is available. - Services for Students/Young Adults (Pre-ETS): Supports high school and transition-age students with career exploration, college prep, work experience, workplace readiness, and self-advocacy training.

Supports individuals with brain injuries in leading fuller, more independent lives through personalized services tailored to each person's goals. Programs include: - Community Integration and Inclusion: Structured day programs combining on-site skill development with community experiences to enhance independence, social engagement, and life skills. - Vocational Services (VS): Comprehensive employment support, including assessments, job preparation, placement, employer education, and ongoing follow-up to help clients secure and maintain community employment.

Offers services for individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities, including: - Community-based employment - Day support services - Individualized home support services including medication management, grocery shopping, cleaning skills, and more - Prevocational services - Employment support services and exploration support - Structured day services

Individualized services designed to help a person achieve competitive, integrated employment, become self-employed, or establish a micro-enterprise business in their community, and support that helps people maintain paid employment in community businesses/settings.

The following services are available to persons transitioning from High School: - Exploration counseling services - Instruction in self-advocacy services - Internship opportunities - Introductory work activities - Post-secondary education counseling services - Work experience opportunities - Work-based learning coaching - Workplace readiness training

Offers employment services for adults and students, services include: - Exploring Employment: Helps individuals explore job interests, develop skills, and learn about different careers through job shadowing, informational interviews, and short-term job tryouts. Includes resume building, interview prep, and job search support. - Finding a Job: Offers personalized help with job placement, applications, resume writing, and interview coaching. Also includes training for self-employment or microbusiness development. - Maintaining Employment: Provides job coaching, workplace support, and advocacy to help individuals stay employed and grow in their careers. Assistance with transportation and accommodations is available. - Services for Students/Young Adults (Pre-ETS): Supports high school and transition-age students with career exploration, college prep, work experience, workplace readiness, and self-advocacy training.

Provides habilitation services

Job exploration counseling: - - Career mentorship - - Identification of career pathways of interest to students - - In-demand industries and occupations - - Informational interviews - - Job shadowing - - Non-traditional employment options - - Skills verification - - The labor market - - Vocational interests - - Workplace tours/field trips Work Based Learning: Uses the workplace or real work to provide students with the knowledge and skills that will help them connect school experiences to real-life work activities and future career opportunities. - - Career mentorship - - Informational interviews - - Job shadowing - - Paid and non-paid work based learning internships - - Paid and non-paid work experience - - Practicum - - Service learning - - Student-led enterprises - - Volunteering - - Workplace tours/field trips - - Youth apprenticeships Counseling on Postsecondary Education: Options may include - - - Advising students and parents or representatives on academic curricula - - Completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) - - Providing information about college application and admissions processes - - Providing resources that may be used to support individual student success in education and training (i.e., disability support services) Workplace Readiness Training: Teaches skills such as - - - Communication and interpersonal skills - - Financial literacy, benefits planning - - Job-seeking skills - - Navigating transportation options - - Understanding employer expectations for punctuality and performance, as well as other "soft" skills necessary for employment - - Utilizing assistive technology effectively Self-advocacy: Provides instruction including - - - Learning about personal rights and responsibilities - - Learning how to request accommodations, or services and supports - - Mentoring with educational staff such as principals, nurses, teachers, or office staff - - Participating in youth leadership activities offered in educational or community settings - - Peer mentoring from individuals with disabilities working in competitive integrated employment

Provides training and habilitation services for adults living with a developmental disability, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), mental illness, or physical challenge. Individual programs are developed to meet specific needs and promote social and vocational independence. Additional services include: - Daily Living Skills: Assessment/evaluation, art therapy, multi-sensory room therapy, budgeting/money management, self-help skills, and social skills - Fully Accessible Transportation Service: Provides transportation to centers, community work sites, and community activities - Progressive Job Placement Program: Provides center-based employment such as job coaching, training, on-going job follow-up, and individual job search for positions in business and industries - Senior Program: Skills maintenance training, leisure interest training, and small group community activities - Specialized Services: Assessment/evaluation, behavior management planning, physical therapy, and communication and language services such as ASL Spanish classes - Transition Program: Develop a work history while still in school and work readiness training

??- Provides day support services at the Hutchinson and Winsted ATHC sites. These services help participants develop essential life skills and engage in meaningful community activities. - Provides employment supports at the Hutchinson and Winsted ATHC sites. Pre-vocational employment services are offered at the Hutchinson site.

Offers day training and habilitation for adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities. Provides individual assessment and planning to help people identify essential life skills and discover activities that enrich their lives. Teaches and develops important and personally enriching life skills that support a person's community relationships, involvement, and inclusion in the community.

Program provides the skills and support people with disabilities or barriers to employment need to succeed in the workplace and match them up with the right job. Situational Assessment - a short-term work experience designed to help individuals explore their vocational aptitudes and determine the types of support services that will be needed in the workplace. - Centered-based employment - Paid work at the main facility. Offers various jobs including donation processing, janitorial services, stocking, retail sales, office work, and shipping. Works with individuals in identifying a job within the facility that is well-matched to their skills and interests - Community based employment - Provides paid work in the community to individuals that need ongoing support to maintain their employment. These jobs are often on crews and may include janitorial, lawn-work, and snow removal - Supported employment - Provides employment with local community employers. Workers who are hired for community jobs continue to receive training and support from Goodwill Vocational Services team members, and are paid by the hiring company. Area employers may include Super One Foods, Olive Garden, Bernick's Pepsi, Minnesota Power, Grandma's Restaurant, TJ Maxx, Aerostich, Sain. Lukes, Duluth Grill, and WalMart.

Service which provides assistance to individuals who are mentally, physically, or developmentally disabled in obtaining work in the community

Program allows each person to gain an understanding of working in the community, careers or jobs are included in the exploration Employment Exploration: Helps each person to make informed decisions about competitive employment. Program may include: - Exploration of occupations - Job clubs - Job shadowing - Work experiences Employment Development: Supports jobseekers in finding a desired career or job using tools such as customized employment, may include:? - Business contacts - Interviewing skills - Resume development ? Employment Support: Provides ongoing services and support that helps individuals be successful in community employment. Support services may include group or individual coaching for job success. May include: - Adaptive accommodations - Advocacy - Job counseling - Modified work tasks - Negotiation and liaison communication with the employer - Transportation

- 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

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

Provides day training and habilitation services to create partnerships between individuals living with a disability and the community. Programs offer flexibility and person-centered services. Services provided: - Create opportunities in leisure, cultural enrichment, employment, and volunteer activities - Build and expand functional skills - Develop social relationships, social connections, and life skills - Foster and develop independence - Matches client skills, interests, and abilities to ensure activities are a good fit - Wellness activities and explore art opportunities

Provide individual competitive employment services. Services include: - Benefits planning - Career planning - Follow-up support services - Job coaching - Job development services - Job follow-up services - Job placement - Job-seeking skills training - Multi-lingual and multi-cultural support - PASS and IRWE planning - Person-centered planning - Resume and cover letter development - Supported employment NOTE: Minnesota Employment Center (MEC) Saint Paul site is the only in-person office. Other MEC locations are virtual but will serve members across Minnesota.

Provides supported, community-based employment services, including job placement, coaching, day training, habilitation, individualized planning, and case management. Partners with over 100 local businesses across industries such as food service, manufacturing, and hospitality to offer meaningful work experiences. Additionally, offers a SHAPE Fitness Center where participants have daily access to adaptive equipment, structured programs, and trained professionals to support health and wellness.

Provides supported, community-based employment services, including job placement, coaching, day training, habilitation, individualized planning, and case management. Partners with over 100 local businesses across industries such as food service, manufacturing, and hospitality to offer meaningful work experiences. Additionally, offers a SHAPE Fitness Center where participants have daily access to adaptive equipment, structured programs, and trained professionals to support health and wellness.

Offers a variety of service options to promote independence including: - Day support services - Employment development services - Employment exploration services - Employment support services - Prevocational training Offers services for vocational rehabilitation including: - Extended employment basic (EE) - Job coaching - Job placement - Work evaluations

Offers a 4 - 12 week training program in Automotive Services, Construction, Business Professional Pathways, Financial Industry, Clean Energy/Solar, and YouthBuild. Classes are available at no cost to eligible students and include career coaching and job placement assistance. Individuals must attend an information session, where staff review eligibility requirements and assist with the application process.

- Adult day services - Atmosphere that promotes social relationships, self-sufficiency, and opportunity for growth - Community-based group employment under supervision of trained staff; services include case management, training, and advocacy - Assessment: Measures a person's strengths, interests, and work skills - Work Adjustment Training: Develops job skills to assist individuals in career planning specific to individual goals - Job Coaching: One-to-one training on employment skills - Job Development: Develops employment options for community placement, assists with resume preparation, interviewing skills, provides employer services, and matches participant's desires to employer - Supported employment provides training and independent placement of individuals desiring jobs in community settings - Center-based employment provides supervised employment opportunities in light industrial packaging and manual assembly, shrink wrap, skin wrap, and blister packaging - Follow-up Services: Professional job retention support - Life skills classes and social activities - Day Training and Habilitation Program - DT&H - Traumatic Brain Injury Program - Vast majority of participants are transported to and from their homes on ProAct vehicles which include specialized equipment, wheelchair lift buses, commuter vans, and cars - Vocational skill development