Courses last 8 - 12 weeks and are designed to provide short-term industry-specific training and career navigation in the following areas: - Automotive Service Technician - Business Professional Pathways - Construction - Financial Industry Individuals must attend an information session where a staff member will assist with eligibility and application requirements. If individuals need assistance in order to participate in an information session, they should call. Information sessions are offered monthly at two different locations; visit website for information.

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.

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. Person-centered, team-based approach. Each participant's team may include family, guardians, a social worker, medical or mental health providers, residential staff, an ABC Job Coach and Program Coordinator, and the participants themselves.

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

Participants gain work experience and learn new job skills to become productive and successful workers The program provides training activities in the following areas: - Acquire resume-building work experiences and vocational training - Develop needed work skills and strengthen their work capacity - Establish the next steps for competitive employment goals - Job performance and progress - Orientation to the work environment - Orientation to work duties - Safety in the workplace - Self-confidence

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

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.

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

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

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. ?

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

Vocational services for those requiring structured setting: - Average staff to client ratios of one to four - On-going physical, social, behavioral and vocational support provided - Smaller work stations and individual work stations - Work opportunities available both on- and off-site Work opportunities for those with a greater degree of independence: - Intermittent vocational support provided by Merrick staff - Typically hired directly by business for at least a minimum wage - Weekly work hours averaging 20 hours and up to 40 hours Work crew services for those who prefer to work as part of a team: - Average staff to client ratios of one to eight - Crews contracted through Merrick or directly hired by business - Work crews of five to seven clients work together with ongoing and intermittent support during the work shift - Work opportunities available both on- and off-site On-site work completing contracts outsourced to Merrick: - All production activities monitored by Merrick - Average staff to client ratios of one to eight - Contracts includes packaging, assembling, clerical, shredding and more Transportation provided to and from jobs for all vocational programs

Medtronic: Recruits for 2nd and 3rd shift jobs and offers an interactive course at Medtronic. The course helps participants build resumes, develop interview skills and offers personalized job coaching and training. EMERGE Career and Technology Center (ECTC), 1834 Emerson Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 Career Essentials Workshops: Learn how to professionally write a resume or conduct a successful job search through a 2-part MFIP/DWP workshop that provides the tools to develop career skills. Learn more about: - Basic resume writing, formatting tricks, basic resume etiquette - Insight to job searching tools and practices - How to write a targeted cover letter - Importance of professional emails - Workshop schedule and expectations - Computer lab for youth and adults EMERGE Career and Technology Center, 1834 Emerson Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 North @ Work: North @ Work is a collaborative meant to facilitate career training and employment services for African-American males, age 25 or older, living in north Minneapolis and looking for a career. This workshop is free and can connect participants to resources, training and a career with an employer. - Choose a career path - Attend training while working - Be guided by step-by-step partnerships to help reach goals - Launch a career with employers that are hiring now Twin Cities R!se, 1301 Bryant Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 Hire Ground: Helps participants learn the power of self-advocacy, soft and hard professional skills and habits. Participants also have the opportunity to discover their values, personality type, learning style, and learn how to talk about their skills and value they can bring to a professional audience and workplace. - Develop effective strategies for job searching - Learn the power of self-advocacy and habit - Practice interviewing skills - Resume and cover letter building - Modern day job market insight and know-how EMERGE Career and Technology Center (ECTC), 1834 Emerson Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 Cedar-Riverside Opportunity Center (CROC), 505 15th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55454 Global Career Development Facilitator Training An intense high impact course designed to equip career services employees with the needed industry tools to guide participants in their career planning and guidance. This GCDF® / CCSP Training course is intended for anyone providing career services in employment and workforce development, one stops, career centers, secondary and post-secondary education, veteran career development, career coaching, career advisors, human resources, government or other professionals that desire nationally recognized career training.

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

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

Assistance in obtaining and maintaining employment for individuals with developmental and physical disabilities. Services include: - Center-based and supported employment - Day training and habilitation services - Adult development centers

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

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

RSI's Employment 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.

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

- CADI/TBI training options for either pre-vocational or supported employment tracks - Customer services: Packaging and assembly subcontracting for area businesses - Employment services and supported employment; vocational counseling, job training and work experience in a structured, center-based program - Supported employment, job placement, vocational counseling, job seeking skill training, job development, work adjustment, work skill training, advocacy and follow-up for persons who want to work at a community-based job

A community-based adult mental health program that follows an evidence-based practice called Individual Placement and Support (IPS). Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is a model of supported employment for people living with serious mental illness or serious and persistent mental illness. This program assists individuals with mental illness to find and keep a job of their choosing. Participants work with a team of professionals to maximize the possibility of employment success.

- ODC contracts with local companies to perform work at their place of business - Provides ODC participants and employees with meaningful work and in some cases, results in a transition from supported 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 - 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 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

- 24-Hour Responder Service: On-call staff help with health and personal injuries. The service is often paired with Independent Home Support with Training program. Staff will respond by phone or in person depending on the level of services. - Acute Behavioral Services for Children and Adults: Services provided to individuals with interfering behaviors and/or anti-social issues, who have a history of law enforcement involvement, have difficulty living with others and require high staffing needs, are in frequent crisis situations, or coming out of an institution. - Case Management: Available to residents of Hennepin, Ramsey, and Wright Counties who receive funding through various waivers and/or programs. Assists navigating the social service system and provides information and advocacy. - Integrated Community Supports: Provides support and training/habilitation in community living service categories to adults ages 18 and older who reside in a living unit of a provider-controlled ICS setting (e.g., apartment in a multi-family housing building). ICS can be delivered up to 24 hours per day in the person's living unit or in the community. - Individualized Home Supports: Provides a blend of in-person and remote services that focus on support and training of a person who needs to maintain or increase independence for their continued experience living in the community. Also offers services to relatives working to support the person's goals. - Residential Services: Operates residences for adults with significant behavioral, medical, or physical challenges including brain injuries. Residential group home programs are licensed as adult or child foster care, or a supervised living facility. Each site serves 2 - 6 people. - Supportive Employment Services: Provides individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities assistance with initial stages of the employment assessment period, job search and development, job coaching, and working independently - Vocational Rehabilitation Services: Offers a variety of services including job-seeking skills training, job coaching, social coaching, post-secondary education, and more. Also, supports student youth as they search for and find competitive employment and helps them explore post-secondary education. - RUMI: Connects people with disabilities with a compatible supportive roommate who can earn up to 2x more than a typical direct care position, tax-free. Visit MeetMyRumi.com to learn more.