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Provides employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities; jobs are provided through contract work with area businesses, recycling services, and crafts.

Supported employment services may be available for individuals with the most significant disabilities requiring special on-the-job supervision.

Supported Employment: A program designed to meet the employment needs of individuals with developmental disabilities. The components involved are discovery and exploration, job development, job coaching and long-term retention.

Provides assessment of individual to determine extent of disability and evaluates to determine types of work best suited to the individual.

Provides an on the job coach and instruction to individuals with autism spectrum disorder, in order to promote success within community employment. Coach is able to provide support and informal training to the employer and natural supports within the job site.

Missouri Vocational Rehabilitation offers job placement, referrals, sheltered employment, occupational therapy and counseling

Deaf & Hard of Hearing Employment: Provide comprehensive vocational evaluation and job placement services to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as provide support and guidance regarding communication once the individual is employed.

Provide sheltered employment to those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Helps individuals with developmental disabilities obtain and maintain employment. Once employed, individuals and their employers continue to receive support, such as coaching, retention support and awareness training.

Provides job opportunities for mentally and physically challenged adults whom desire the independence and self-reliance that employment provides.

Provides services needed to enter, remain in or return to suitable employment. Services include diagnosis and evaluation; counseling and guidance; vision restoration programs like uninsured people needing cataract surgery or glaucoma surgery. Provide training to continue employment or school, technical or trade jobs and job placement/development. Also provide help adapting electronic aides/devices for the workplace and follow-up services.

Helps individuals with disabilities find and keep good jobs; matches an employee with an employer in a mutually beneficial relationship.

Supported Employment is employment for adults with disabilities working in the community with the aid of a job coach. Community Employment Service is employment for adults with disabilities working in the community with minimal support from a job coach for a short time.

Provides employment for adults with intellectual disabilities such as knitting, assembling, packaging, scale and counting, mail and UPS Shipping and more.

Job Discovery: Offers opportunities for individuals with autism spectrum disorder to explore job skills, interests and strengths. This will be done through volunteer work, job exploration, job shadowing, informational interviewing, labor market research, exploration of job/work tasks and preparation of an employment plan.

Sheltered workshop.

Provides placement, vocational counseling, physical restoration assistance, training and interpreters to help persons with disabilities obtain work.

Provides placement, vocational counseling, physical restoration assistance, training and interpreters to help individuals with disabilities obtain work.

Supported employment services may be available for individuals with significant disabilities requiring special on-the-job supervision. A Vocational Rehabilitation counselor will work with individuals to determine eligibility for services.

Assists individuals with serious and persistent mental illness with transitional and supported employment opportunities.

Provides individuals with an intellectual disability support to obtain employment in a healthcare environment.

The supported work option establishes employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities in the local industries on an one-person one-job basis at or above minimum wage. A job coach develops the employment site, conducts a job analysis, matches an individual to the job, trains the individual on the job until the employers standards are met, gradually fading out as the individual is more independent.

Individual Placement & Support (IPS): provides an evidence-based practice that provides employment opportunities for individuals struggling with mental health, substance use, and/or other concerns.

Services provided are Career Planning, Prevocational Skills, Job Development and Supported Employment. The goal of the program is sustained employment in the community and work experience leading to further career development.

Sheltered Workshop provides employment for persons with disabilities through recycling collection and thrift store operations.