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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

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

• Provides habilitation services to adults with developmental disabilities Provides day training for skilled jobs such as: - Paper shredder

• Log sanding

• Sawing slabs

• Janitorial

• Housecleaning

• Day training and habilitation

• Employment transitioning training

• Extended employment for people with disabilities

• Job placement services

• Mental health vocational programs

• Supervised community living residential services

• Senior services

• School-to-work transition

• Transportation services

• Vocational assessment

• Work, training, and professional contact opportunities

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.

Individualized assistance is provided for people to achieve their vocational goals. From basic day-to-day job skills training to transportation to work to job counseling, helps to keep people on the right path to being vocationally successful to the best of their ability.

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.

A collaborative project between MCIL and Minnesota Vocational Rehabilitation Services. Provides core independent living services such as information and referral, individual advocacy, and independent living skills training to people enrolled in vocational rehabilitation services. Specialists are stationed in vocational rehabilitation offices, typically housed within Minnesota Workforce Center locations. While clients work on job goals with counselors, they simultaneously work with the independent living specialist from MCIL on issues that are impacting their ability to work. These services are meant to address immediate and long-term needs. A referral is required. If an individual is looking for IL/VR services, consult the nearest Vocational Rehabilitation Services office.

• Day training and habilitation

• Employment transitioning training

• Extended employment for people with disabilities

• Job placement services

• Mental health vocational programs

• Supervised community living residential services

• Senior services

• School-to-work transition

• Transportation services

• Vocational assessment

• Work, training, and professional contact opportunities

• Day training and habilitation

• Employment transitioning training

• Extended employment for people with disabilities

• Job placement services

• Mental health vocational programs

• Supervised community living residential services

• Senior services

• School-to-work transition

• Transportation services

• Vocational assessment

• Work, training, and professional contact opportunities

Vocational rehabilitation program that helps individuals find and keep jobs in the community Services include:

• Assistance with highlighting strengths to potential employers

• Designing resumes and cover letters

• Learning to network and advocate

• Refining interview skills

• Setting work goals

Provides support, training, and employment to adults with developmental disabilities. Staff assist in training and supervising people in different jobs in the facility and in the community. Training generally falls into areas such as employment, communication, social, and recreational skills. Training includes:

• Day training and habilitation

• Employment development

• Employment exploration

• Employment support, individual, and group

• Job coaching

• Prevocational services

• Transition services

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 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

Provides adult mental health targeted case management to assist individual's needs, develop person goals, and access needed services. As part of case management, supportive services may include:

• Addressing medical and physical health

• Advocacy

• Financial management

• Housing issues

• Maintaining social relationships

• Mental health management education

• Mental health services

• Transportation access

• Vocational habilitation

• Day training and habilitation

• Employment transitioning training

• Extended employment for people with disabilities

• Job placement services

• Mental health vocational programs

• Supervised community living residential services

• Senior services

• School-to-work transition

• Transportation services

• Vocational assessment

• Work, training, and professional contact opportunities

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.

??- 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.

The program is designed to help individuals living with a disability and mental health needs, live as independently and fully as possible. Community Living Specialists meet with clients one-on-one in their homes to provide the training and support. This service can be customized to meet individual needs and may include:

• In-home support

• Employment support

• Housing support

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

Provides individualized employment support to help people prepare for, obtain, and succeed in competitive community jobs. Services include:

• Job development and placement

• Ongoing follow-up services: Job coaching, employer education, training in community resources, and personal support

• Vocational evaluation

• Vocational rehabilitation support

• 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 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

Provides individualized employment support to help people prepare for, obtain, and succeed in competitive community jobs. Services include:

• Job development and placement

• Ongoing follow-up services: Job coaching, employer education, training in community resources, and personal support

• Vocational evaluation

• Vocational rehabilitation support

A vocational rehabilitation program that offers community-based services, including case coordination; training in basic living skills, social skills, leisure skills, mental health maintenance, and work adjustment; and vocational training in fields such as janitorial work, construction, mail handling, and more. The program includes on-the-job training where trainees work about three hours per day, preparing for ongoing participation in the Jobs Program. The training duration ranges from three to nine months. Services:

• Career Assessments and Matching

• One-on-one employment counseling and job search assistance

• Online Application Assistance

• Resume and Cover Letter Workshops