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Provides support, training, and employment to adults with developmental disabilities. Training includes: - Day training and habilitation - Employment development - Employment exploration - Employment support, individual and group - Job coaching - Prevocational services - Transition services

Winona County Developmental Achievement Center is an adult program which includes: - Community integration - Vocational development - Independent living skills development - Pre-vocational skills development - Preparation for job placement - Recreation/social activities - Horticulture therapy (there is a greenhouse on premises) - Computer technology - Supported employment The center can provide in-center work and community-based work opportunities. In addition the center offers physical therapy and exercise programs and a positive behavioral program for participants. Transportation to and from the center may be available.

Provides day training and habilitation programs: - Community Integration: Guidance on banking, communication, errands, and educational outings - Employer Workforce Support: Labor solutions with full administrative/training support - Life Skills: Training in cooking, hygiene, healthy living, gardening- Supported Employment: Paid, goal-specific work-both in-house and community-based - Transportation: Support for mobility and access to community resources

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. ?

Provides support, training, and employment to adults with developmental disabilities. Training includes: - Day training and habilitation - Employment development - Employment exploration - Employment support, individual and group - Job coaching - Prevocational services - Transition services

Assists with competitive job placement and retention, with services typically provided on a weekly basis with client needs and preferences taken into consideration

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 helps individuals explore career paths and choose employment based on their preferences, strengths, abilities, and needs.

- 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.

Provides support, training, and employment to adults with developmental disabilities. Training includes: - Day training and habilitation - Employment development - Employment exploration - Employment support, individual and group - Job coaching - Prevocational services - Transition services

Provides workforce development services, including: - Assistance with education, training, and job placement as required for employment - Employment support for blind and visually impaired adults - Employment-related services provided based on an individually developed employment plan - Information about access technology, including hands-on demonstration and assessment - Referral to resources for housing, independent living skills, and additional relevant services - Support to retain, regain, or advance in employment if eligible for services - Students ages 14 - 21 who are blind or visually impaired can apply for transition services

Assists with competitive job placement and retention, with services typically provided on a weekly basis with client needs and preferences taken into consideration

Assists with competitive job placement and retention, with services typically provided on a weekly basis with client needs and preferences taken into consideration

Offers employment services for individuals living with a disability to help them navigate employment options that are a right fit for them. The Employment Department of Minnesota Diversified Industries (MDI) is available at all locations and works with each individual to find a match to meet employment goals. Services include: - Career Skills Training: Help individuals build personal and professional development for lifelong career skills - Community Placement Services: The Placement Team works with job seekers and referral sources to find the best employment fit for the individual's skills, abilities, and interests - Job Placement: Offers meaningful work, such as assembling plastic containers, putting together kits for medical companies, and operating packaging equipment - On-the-Job Training: Offers a support team to provide daily coaching, training, goal setting, identify skills/abilities, retain job, and more

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

Provides assistance and support to veterans and their dependents in obtaining benefits through state and federal programs, including: - Burial benefits - Death benefits - Service-connected disability compensation - Disability insurance - Discharge reviews - Domiciliary care for in-home care - Education and training - Financial assistance - G.I. Bill educational benefits - G.I. life insurance benefits - Home loan guaranteed by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs - Non-service connected disability pension - Referrals for substance use treatment services, dental care, and medical care - Survivors and dependents education - Vocational rehabilitation for individuals who are living with a disability

- 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

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.

Paid employment program to serve up to 40 people. Clients receive training in: - Job skills - Life skills - Community integration skills Jobs and training are paid, either hourly or piece rate. Also: community-integrated leisure and recreational services.

Winona ORC Industries is a non-profit agency providing vocational and employment services for adults with disabilities. Services include: - Vocational preparation - Short-term training on job sites in the community and on-going follow-up and training - Jobs skills classes - Liaisons between employer and employee and education of employers about disabilities - Center-based employment in areas of packaging, assembly, machining, and recycling - Community-based employment where clients work in small groups at local businesses under the guidance of a job coach - Supported employment in direct hire positions and follow up services once the client is hired - Stepping into Competitive Employment (IPS) offering job placement and support for persons with serious mental illness

Advises and assists veterans and their dependents with all state and federal veterans benefits, such as: - Burial benefits - Financial assistance through the V.A. for dental work - G.I. Bill educational training - G.I. Life Insurance - Home loan guaranteed by the U.S.D.V.A. - Outpatient medical care through the V.A. - Service-connected disability compensation - Veteran survivor insurance - Veteran/Military health insurance - Transportation to VA Medical Center - Survivors and dependents education "State Soldiers Assistance Program" (SSAP): provides veterans who are unable to work as a result of temporary disability with cash assistance toward housing costs (rent, mortgage, and utilities such as gas, electric, heating fuel, and water) and other personal needs. There are strict income and asset requirements. Information about and referrals to other service agencies for chemical dependency treatment and vocational rehabilitation.

- 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

Assistance and technical support to all veterans and their dependents with all state and federal veterans' benefits includes assisting veterans and dependents with applications and/or claims for any of these benefits and services: Federal Benefits (US Department of Veterans Affairs) - Agent Orange benefits - Burial benefits - Disability compensation (service connected disabilities) - Education benefits - Medical Care at VA Hospitals - Non-service pension - VA Home Loans - Vocational Rehabilitation State Benefits (MN Department of Veterans Affairs) - Dental and optical assistance - Post-9/11 Veteran Service Bonus (note: deadline for applications is June 30, 2024) - State veterans cemetery (Little Falls, MN) - State veterans homes (nursing home and domiciliary care) - Temporary financial assistance for shelter (rent and mortgage), utility (elecytric, gas, phone, and water), healthcare insurance premium and personal needs (short term disability) - Veterans and war orphans education benefits - Veterans preference advocacy