Provides a range of vocational opportunities for adults with disabilities, including structured settings, independent employment, work crews, and on-site contract work. Support levels vary from intensive to intermittent, depending on individual needs. Transportation to and from all job sites is included.

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. ?

- The ODC contracts with local companies to perform work at their place of business. - This provides ODC participants and employees with meaningful work and in some cases, results in a transition from sheltered employment to competitive employment. - Examples of community based work are: - Mobile Work Crews - Jobs such as yard work, cleaning, etc. - Enclave (Small work crew) - ODC contracts with an industry and provides a trainer as needed - The industry provides material and site of work - Individual Work Site - ODC contracts to perform work for just one individual - The work is done at the place of business and a trainer from ODC will be provided as needed

Offers center-based programs, community employment and work services including candle manufacturing, recycling, culinary arts, clerical duties, enclave work sites and/or recreational opportunities. Chore services program during the summer. Day Services provides the following: - Day Support Services - Day Training and Habilitation (DT&H) - Employment Development Services - Employment Exploration Services - Employment Support Services: Helps explore the persons interests, identify their skills, create resumes, fill out job applications, practice interviews, and help with transportation needs - Pre-vocational - Structured Day

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

- 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

Assists individuals with disabilities with the following services: - Customized job shadowing - Job placement - Training and coaching including help with resumes, cover letters, and mock interviews - Volunteer 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-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 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.

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

Maple Leaf Services offers a variety of Supported Employment Services employment opportunities that range from employment exploration, development, and employment support. The intent is to assist the person gain and maintain competitive employment.

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. ?

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 - Vocational assessments: Evaluations are conducted to line with the person's interests and strengths. Assist individuals in identifying job goals and developing career paths. The evaluation helps an individual determine if the work in that particular field is a good fit.

Supports individuals with disabilities in developing the skills to access community employment. Employment and Alternative Services is available to individuals with a Developmental Disabilities (DD) Waiver and is a broader scope of the vocational program which incorporates personal support services.

Offers a variety of person-centered programs to assist individuals in finding and keeping a job in their community. Provides individualized services that meet the specific needs and wishes of the individual. Assists in building a plan for each person and provides an array of specific service options. Services include: - Customized Employment: Allows individuals and employers the opportunity to negotiate job duties to improve overall contribution in the workplace - Employment Development: Individualized services to help individuals achieve competitive, integrated employment, and explore employment - Individual Placement and Support (IPS): Helps individuals living with a serious mental illness work in regular jobs related to their work preferences. Emphasizes a rapid search for competitive jobs consistent with the individual's goals, interests, and experience. - Performance Based Agreement: Identify and develop job opportunities, assist with creating and updating resumes, completing job applications, preparing for job interviews, completing cover and thank you letters, and more

Service which provides job opportinities for individuals with diabilities and other employment barriers

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.

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 - Vocational assessments: Evaluations are conducted to line with the person's interests and strengths. Assist individuals in identifying job goals and developing career paths. The evaluation helps an individual determine if the work in that particular field is a good fit.

- Consumer-driven, consumer-directed community based employment project for persons with serious and persistent mental illness Provides: - Job flexibility (schedules to accommodate consumer needs) - Individualized Career planning - Transportation coordination - Wage and benefit options - Coordination of services - Job club Out of Area 1-800-627-3529

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.

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 employment and vocational services for adults with developmental disabilities. Services include: - Career development (career awareness, counseling, exploration, vocational assessment) - Individualized programming - Job development - Job training, including on-the-job training and retraining - Part-time and job-sharing options - Recreational and leisure activities/skills - Transportation training - Vocational training in janitorial, clerical, packaging, and assembly

??- 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.

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 - Vocational assessments: Evaluations are conducted to line with the person's interests and strengths. Assist individuals in identifying job goals and developing career paths. The evaluation helps an individual determine if the work in that particular field is a good fit.

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