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Provides individualized employment support for people with disabilities, including job exploration, readiness training, job placement, and ongoing employment support. Services may include:
- Interview preparation
- Job coaching
- Resume building
- Supported employment in community settings
- Vocational rehabilitation activities to help individuals find, obtain, and maintain competitive, integrated employment
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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
- 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 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.
- Vocational training for adults with developmental disabilities and/or mental illnesses
- Work skills development
- Supported employment
- Community 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
- 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.
Provides case management for a range of services to people experiencing problems related to mental health issues. Services are provided to help people maintain the highest level of independence in community living. Available services include:
- Adult Rehabilitation Mental Health Services (ARMHS): This service is rehabilitative and meant to enable the person to develop and enhance mental health stability, social competencies, personal and emotional adjustment, and independent living and community skills. ARMHS instructs, assists, and supports individuals regaining or starting skills to live independently.
- Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Teams: ACT is an intensive, comprehensive, non-residential, and rehabilitative mental health service team model
- Case Management: Offers referrals to community mental health centers, community outreach programs, housing support options, local social clubs/drop-in programs, residential treatment facilities, and vocational services
- Community Support Program (CSP): Helps people manage their mental health symptoms, participate in their community, learn medication management, and develop daily living skills
- Individual Placement and Support (IPS): Helps people with mental illness find and keep a job through the IPS program. Program participants have the opportunity to work with a team of professionals to maximize the possibility of employment success.
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 work evaluation, job placement, job training, and youth transition services for individuals with a wide range of disabilities and barriers to employment. Ongoing employment support services are offered to help individuals maintain and advance in their current employment.
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Assists people in finding and maintaining work outside of Ability Building Center - ABC in cooperation with community businesses. Many participants are on the path to independent placement - either ABC-paid or employer-paid work - but are working in groups or on crews while developing skills.
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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.
Offers person-centered, wraparound services for adults with intellectual and physical disabilities, including:
- Employment Services: Finding and maintaining employment with continuous support
- Day Support Services: Building essential life and community skills in a supportive learning environment
- Admissions and transportation: Ensuring accessible, reliable transportation, whether through their services or public options
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.
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.
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Provides work evaluation, job placement, job training, and youth transition services for individuals with a wide range of disabilities and barriers to employment. Ongoing employment support services are offered to help individuals maintain and advance in their current employment.
What's Here
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.
Assists persons living with disabilities to find job placement within the community. - Career planning - Job development and placement - Personalized support - Welfare-to-work services
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.
Employment services provided:
- Placement and ongoing job coaching for individual placements
- Pre-vocational training
- Jobs in the community
- Work skills development and 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 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.
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.
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.