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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

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

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

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.

Program is designed to support individuals with disabilities who would like to make an informed choice about employment, develop preliminary employment goals, seek competitive integrated employment, or need support in maintaining their employment. Employment services at RSI utilizes person-centered, evidence-based practices to promote employment stabilization and long-term job retention. Grounded in a strengths-based perspective, each job seeker's skills, interests, and goals are examined to identify and secure long-term careers and employment.

Provides clubhouse atmosphere for people with mental illness

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 specialized programs to help individuals with disabilities find and maintain employment within their community.

• Employment Development: Focuses on developing skills including work orientation, work activity training, community orientation, and personal habit development for work and personal life

• Employment Exploration: Includes informational interviews, employer site tours, peer mentoring, and job shadows

• Employment Support: Offers group or individual placement with business partners in an integrated community setting, with support tailored to each person's needs

• Vocational Rehab: Provides services such as internships, job tryouts, on-the-job evaluations, placement services, paid work experiences, and transportation training.

• Support group for unplanned pregnancy, and those who are parenting. Also provides resources and referrals

• Support group for women seeking hope and healing from a past abortion

• Free one-on-one job coaching and resume assistance

• 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

Employment Exploration Assists the person with activities and experiences exploration so they can make informed decisions about whether they are interested in pursuing competitive employment. Employment Development - Find and Plan Helps the person plan their work goals and discover personal strengths, interests, and conditions for employment. The Employment Development Find phase helps the person search for and obtain competitive, integrated employment or develop a microenterprise business. Employment Support Individualized services and supports that help people maintain paid employment in community businesses/settings through job coaching support. ?Transportation Transportation services provided to assist people in getting to and from work, as well as job search and exploration activities.

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.

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.

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

Connects individuals with disabilities to experiences that explore their interests, develop skills, and start or advance their careers. Individuals will learn and have the opportunity to find careers in research and development, customer service, corporate operations, office administration, food service, retail, and more. Careers include competitive wages, good benefits, and opportunities for advancement. Employment services offered:

• Employment development

• Employment exploration

• Employment support

• Extended employment

• Pre-employment transition services

Program is designed to support individuals with disabilities who would like to make an informed choice about employment, develop preliminary employment goals, seek competitive integrated employment, or need support in maintaining their employment. Employment services at RSI utilizes person-centered, evidence-based practices to promote employment stabilization and long-term job retention. Grounded in a strengths-based perspective, each job seeker's skills, interests, and goals are examined to identify and secure long-term careers and employment.

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.

Prepares participants by providing the tools to develop hard and soft skills, reach career goals, and obtain proper certifications and licenses. Career training coaches are available to assist every step of the way by preparing participants for college-level classes, connecting them to employers, and helping to build professional skills and networks. Offers the following services:

• Class A Commercial Driver's License Program: Helps participants earn a CDL for free by providing a training coach. Provides an immersive and hands-on training program held at the Interstate Truck Driving School.

• Four Cornerstones of Financial Wellness: Provides classes that help participants increase financial management skills and learn to navigate financial systems. Classes include: budgeting to create savings, asset building and debt reduction, building a good credit report, and consumer protection and financial institutions.

• Healthcare Career Pathways: Helps participants build skills, reach career goals, and obtain proper certifications and licenses. Provides a training coach that prepares participants for college-level classes, connections to employers, and builds professional skills and networks. Courses offered include English for Industry, Nursing Assistant, Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers, and Nursing Assistant Refresher.

• Re-Entry Services: Provides adults recently paroled or released an opportunity to gain proper credentials in trainings such as Class A Commercial Driver's License. In addition to job training and career planning, participants will have access to transportation assistance and financial coaching.

• Welding and CNC Machining: Offers participants that have completed Manufacturing Foundations, the opportunity to pursue advanced manufacturing programs at Hennepin Technical College that includes 7 - 10 month certificates in Gas Metal Arc Welding or CNC Machining. Program also prepares participants an opportunity to continue their education and earn an associate's degree in a skilled trade.

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 career support services to individuals living with hearing loss, are deaf, or hard of hearing. Services provided:

• Career exploration, career planning, and vocational assessment

• Competitive and supported employment services

• Employer training, communications setup, and technical assistance

• Job customization and support to fit your needs

• Job searches and contacting potential employers

• Interviews, job shadowing, and company tours

• Ongoing job coaching, on-the-job development, and training to help individuals grow their skills

• Resume and cover letter development

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.

Assist youth and adults who identify as having a disability navigate their pathway in finding and retaining competitive integrated employment in the community. The goal is to find each person meaningful careers that focus on their abilities. The following services are offered:

• Follow-Along Services

• Placement and Retention Services

• Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS)

• Supported Employment Services

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.