State Programs – By Topic
These Centers provide students with academic support, enrichment, and school engagement through afterschool and summer programming, with a focus on college and career readiness (among other topics). The program targets students in high-poverty areas and is a collaboration between the University of Delaware’s Center for Disability Studies and the Delaware Department of Education.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Delaware
This program helps individuals with disabilities secure employment in state government on a trial period. Participants receive a position for 700 hours of work, which can transform into full-time long-term employment during or immediately following the trial period. The program is a collaboration between the Nevada Department of Administration’s Division of Human Resource Management, and the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation’s Rehabilitation Division.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Nevada
This program offers comprehensive special education instruction for students with disabilities, with a focus on vocational education. Specific subject areas include economics, keyboarding, computer technology, career education, industrial arts, and business education.
Operating Entity: ACCESS Arkansas
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arkansas
ASTEP is a postsecondary education program for students with intellectual disabilities. It provides students an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in campus life.
Operating Entity: Minot State University
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: North Dakota
ACCE is a two-semester program on the University of Arkansas Little Rock campus that enables students with disabilities to have a college experience while preparing for employment in a competitive field. Academic support, social support, work exploration, and job placement are all components of the program. It is a partnership between Easterseals Arkansas and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Arkansas
This program provides curriculum modifications and special equipment to enable students with disabilities to participate in state-approved Career and Technical Education (CTE) work-based learning (WBL) programs.
Operating Entity: Minnesota Department of Education, Career and Technical Education
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program offers a variety of courses for individuals who are blind or visually impaired, ranging from Braille and academic studies to independent living, life adjustment, technology, business and employment skills, and recreation.
Operating Entity: Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Florida
Participants in the day training program get a personalized service plan that focuses on the following: 1) social and communication skills, 2) functional life skills, 3) recreation, 4) health and wellness activities, 5) educational, volunteer, and employment opportunities, and 6) self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: Easterseals New Jersey
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program provides supported employment services to individuals with mental illness who require ongoing supports to maintain successful employment.
Operating Entity: State of Maine Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Behavioral Health (OBH)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Maine
This program provides education and employment training to individuals with disabilities across three tiers. In Tier 3, the program focuses on community integration, in tier 2, it focuses on obtaining work and social interaction experience with supervision, and in tier 1, participants participate in employment opportunities with little to no supervision.
Operating Entity: Arizona Centers for Comprehensive Education and Life (ACCEL)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arizona
This program provides services to people with disabilities looking to obtain or retain employment. Employment services include counseling and guidance, on-the-job training, supported employment, and more.
Operating Entity: Texas Workforce Commission, Vocational Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Texas
This program accepts three new farmers with disabilities a year into an incubator program to help them get a start in small-scale farming.
Operating Entity: University of Georgia, Institute on Human Development and Disability
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Georgia
This program helps farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers with disabilities attain gainful employment in production agriculture or a related occupation, access appropriate assistive technology needed for work and daily living activities, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Pennsylvania
This program helps farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers with disabilities attain gainful employment in production agriculture or a related occupation, access appropriate assistive technology needed for work and daily living activities, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Wisconsin
These Centers provide workforce assistance to job seekers and employers. Vocational Rehabilitation counselors are co-located at American Job Centers to encourage clients to register for applicable services available through partner programs. Technologists offer technical assistance to Job Centers on approaches to increasing the accessibility of the centers and partner services.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Connecticut
The North Dakota School for the Deaf provides assistance for students transitioning from high school, including around assistive technology, career exploration, and transition supports unique for people with hearing loss.
Operating Entity: North Dakota Department of Public Instruction, North Dakota School for the Deaf
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: North Dakota
This program helps individuals with autism spectrum disorder transition to adulthood and find, keep, and succeed in a job. Services include job skills exploration and training, vocational assessment, job development, on-the-job training, and long-term training and support.
Operating Entity: Autism Society of North Carolina
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: North Carolina
This six- to eight-week paid pre-apprenticeship training program provides a career path for individuals who are blind or visually impaired into employer-based apprenticeships or direct placement. The program includes work readiness development, job shadowing, and a Job Club experience.
Operating Entity: South Carolina Commission for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: South Carolina
BCVDDP provides a range of services to youth with vision impairments and their families, including confidence-building activities, caregiver support and training, training to increase a child’s independence and ability to participate in vocational related activities, and more.
Operating Entity: Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Texas
This program offers vocational rehabilitation and independent living services to individuals who are blind or visually impaired. This includes vocational guidance and career counseling, assistive technology services, job placement, and transportation.
Operating Entity: Louisiana Workforce Commission, Louisiana Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Louisiana
This program trains people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in music, dance, theater, and visual arts. It encourages self-expression and creativity, while simultaneously enabling participants to obtain a potential career in the arts. Courses are three days per week, with new class offerings every six months.
Operating Entity: Opportunity Village
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Nevada
This program trains individuals with disabilities, including transition-age youth with disabilities, in starting businesses. It consists of six classes, focusing on launching, managing, and growing businesses. It then provides technical assistance as individuals with disabilities first start small businesses.
Operating Entity: Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Rhode Island
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Alabama
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Arizona Department of Economic Security, Rehabilitation Services Administration
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Arizona
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Colorado
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: DC Department on Disability Services, Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: District of Columbia
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Florida Department of Education, Division of Blind Services (DBS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Florida
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Hawai’i Department of Human Services, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Hawaii
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Idaho Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Idaho
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, Division of Disability and Rehabilitative Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Indiana
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Kentucky Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Kentucky
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Massachusetts Commission for the Blind (MCB)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Massachusetts
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: State of Maine Department of Labor, Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired (DBVI)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Maine
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), State Services for the Blind (SSB)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Minnesota
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Mississippi Department of Rehabilitation Services, Office of Vocational Rehabilitation for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Mississippi
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS), Division of Services for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: North Carolina
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Nebraska Commission for the Blind & Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Nebraska
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: State of New Jersey Department of Human Services, Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Jersey
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Nevada Department of Employment, Training, and Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Division
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Nevada
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities, Bureau of Services for the Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Ohio
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Oregon Commission for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Oregon
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Rhode Island Department of Human Services, Rhode Island Office of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Rhode Island
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: South Dakota Department of Human Services, South Dakota Division of Service to the Blind and Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: South Dakota
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Texas Workforce Commission, Vocational Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Texas
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Virginia Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired (DBVI)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Virginia
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Washington State Department of Services for the Blind (DSB)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Washington
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: West Virginia Division of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: West Virginia
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Texas Workforce Commission
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Texas
This supported employment program for individuals with disabilities and/or chronic illnesses takes place at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and provides vocational readiness assessments; vocational counseling and planning; assistance developing interview skills, finding jobs, and resume writing; internship placement; and coordination with the individual’s medical team and community agencies, schools, and potential employers.
Operating Entity: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Pennsylvania
This program helps individuals with disabilities find jobs in Tennessee’s growing health care industry. It provides job training in a mock CVS Pharmacy inside the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation’s Tennessee Rehabilitation Center (TRC), which leads to consideration for a career with CVS Health. It is a partnership between CVS and the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Tennessee
This week-long, immersive leadership camp helps youth with disabilities develop self-advocacy and social skills while giving them paid work experience and career exposure in the natural resources industry. It is a collaboration between the Youth Transition Program (YTP) within the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, and Oregon State Parks.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oregon
This program provides paid work experiences for youth ages 15-22 whom have barriers to employment, such as disability or health conditions. Leadership Crew members train service dogs and serve as Camp Counselors at Camp L.E.A.D., a leadership, empowerment, and abuse prevention day camp in Taos for younger children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: New Mexico Rocky Mountain Youth Corps (RMYC)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Mexico
This program is designed to ensure that special populations (including students with disabilities) have equal access to career and technical education services and job training. Preparatory services are provided in the middle school or prior to a student’s enrollment in a career and technical education program at high school. These services include recruitment of potential career and technical education students, career guidance, vocational assessment, and monitoring.
Operating Entity: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: North Carolina
Participants in this course are supported in developing the skills necessary to prepare for, acquire and maintain a job. Students practice and develop skills related to interviews, job search, resumes, career choice, and job discovery. Participants are also connected to job shadowing opportunities and vocational rehabilitation services.
Operating Entity: Foundation for Blind Children
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arizona
The Career Pathways Connections program provides opportunities for individuals with hearing loss to enter the workforce and obtain sustainable employment. The program is run by staff that are proficient in American Sign Language, experienced in identifying workplace accommodations, trained in assistive technologies, and knowledgeable in resources for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Operating Entity: Easterseals New Jersey
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Jersey
CCS is a postsecondary education program for students with intellectual disabilities. It provides students an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in campus life.
Operating Entity: Portland State University
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Oregon
The Phoenix Day School for the Deaf provides extensive career and technical education services to its students, including general career-based classes, senior seminars, career exploration, and work experience. It also provides students with the opportunity to attend vocational training in their preferred vocational trade.
Operating Entity: Phoenix Day School for the Deaf (PDSD)
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Arizona
This program trains students who are deaf or hard of hearing to become qualified to enter competitive job markets. It focuses on helping students set and achieve either postsecondary or occupational goals. All students receive national industry certifications upon completing this program.
Operating Entity: Mississippi School for the Deaf
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Mississippi
This program is offered at Western Nevada College and Truckee Meadows Community College in conjunction with Nevada Vocational Rehabilitation. It provides career readiness training to students with disabilities over the course of a three-week program, focusing on soft skills, resume writing, and job application best practices.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Nevada
CTI conducts research and demonstration projects to advance employment outcomes for youth with disabilities and to support the Virginia Department of Education in its efforts. One specific initiative is Start on Success, which has nine sites in the state and is a model transition program that provides selected students with high incidence disabilities with a community-based work experience.
Operating Entity: Virginia Commonwealth University, Partnership for People with Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Virginia
Certificate Programs offer hands-on training programs to students and adults with disabilities. This opportunity results from a partnership with local Nebraska Vocational Rehabilitation service offices, three to five core business partners in the area, a community college, and local schools. Students take classes, tour business, and either work part-time or participate in an internship with employer partners.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Nebraska
This program arranges specific community learning situations for individuals with disabilities, based on their individual goals, to help them engage with others and experience life situations. Each outing has a specific purpose and can include employment, academics, and social experiences.
Operating Entity: Creative Enterprises
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Georgia
Four Clubhouses throughout the state offer a variety of services to help individuals with mental illness attain work. Services include in-house prevocational programs, transitional employment, and competitive employment in the community with or without Supported Employment.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Maine
This program helps students with disabilities prepare for post-secondary training through exposure to the college environment, as well as guidance on self-advocacy skills, study strategies, and technology use. It is offered virtually and at twelve sites in the state to Department of Rehabilitation Services consumers who are planning to attend post-secondary training.
Operating Entity: Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services, Vocational Rehabilitation Service (VRS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Alabama
This program provides personalized college support for students with learning and social challenges. This includes providing high school students with an introduction to college, and college students with ongoing support. The program consists of an Individualized College Plan, peer mentorship, pre-employment training, self-advocacy training, and more. It is a collaboration between College Steps, high schools, colleges, families, and agencies.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program provides personalized college support for students with learning and social challenges. This includes providing high school students with an introduction to college, and college students with ongoing support. The program consists of an Individualized College Plan, peer mentorship, pre-employment training, self-advocacy training, and more. It is a collaboration between College Steps, high schools, colleges, families, and agencies.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New York
This program provides personalized college support for students with learning and social challenges. This includes providing high school students with an introduction to college, and college students with ongoing support. The program consists of an Individualized College Plan, peer mentorship, pre-employment training, self-advocacy training, and more. It is a collaboration between College Steps, high schools, colleges, families, and agencies.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Vermont
This program helps farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers with disabilities attain gainful employment in production agriculture or a related occupation, access appropriate assistive technology needed for work and daily living activities, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Colorado
This program helps youth and adults with disabilities learn job skills and find employment in their communities through pre-employment skills training; resume, application, and interview coaching; job search and job placement assistance; and on-the-job training and support.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Florida
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Florida
Employment Specialists are embedded in behavioral health organizations across the state to assist individuals living with serious mental illness in career exploration and securing employment. The program is a collaboration between the Maine Department of Health and Human Services Office of Behavioral Health, the Maine Department of Labor Bureau of Rehabilitation Services, and the Maine Medical Center Department of Vocational Services.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Maine
This program assists individuals with severe physical and sensory disabilities in building a life of their choosing through self-direction, support, and community resources. Services focus on assistive technology, education, independent living, job training, and more.
Operating Entity: Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services (DARS), Division for Community Living
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Virginia
This program offers employment-related and support services to vocational rehabilitation consumers with specialized needs, including vocational evaluation, community-based assessment, job development, and job coaching. They are provided through partnerships with independent community rehabilitation programs across the state.
Operating Entity: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: North Carolina
This program provides students with a variety of opportunities and experiences in preparation for competitive integrated employment and/or postsecondary education or training. The program includes both Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) and Individualized Transition Services (ITS). It is a collaboration between local educational agencies, the Kentucky Department of Education, the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, and the Human Development Institute at the University of Kentucky.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Kentucky
This program provides work experiences for transition-eligible students with visual disabilities to improve their success rate at post-secondary education and employment.
Operating Entity: Missouri Department of Social Services, Rehabilitation Services for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Missouri
This program provides employment assistance to individuals with disabilities who have the most significant limitations. It focuses on building employer-employee relationships and providing long-term employment support.
Operating Entity: South Dakota Department of Human Services, South Dakota Division of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: South Dakota
This program offers a variety of services for youth who are blind or visually impaired, to help them prepare for the transition from school to work or post-secondary education.
Operating Entity: State of Maine Department of Labor, Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired (DBVI)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Maine
This program provides a variety of leadership and vocational opportunities for youth with disabilities, including capacity-building workshops, community-based activities, work-based learning opportunities, and civic engagement experiences.
Operating Entity: SchoolTalkDC
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This program offers individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities training that emphasizes skills and knowledge required for a particular job function (such as customer service, janitorial or sorting clothes) or a trade (such as landscaping).
Operating Entity: Community HealthCore
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Texas
This program includes prevocational services, as well as small group and individual employment supports, to help individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities obtain and maintain employment.
Operating Entity: North Dakota Department of Human Services, Developmental Disabilities Division
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: North Dakota
This program provides services to consumers who are deafblind and/or legally blind with cognitive issues. Services include vocational, prevocational, and social day programs, as well as assistance accessing adaptive equipment, low vision aides, flex funding, and more.
Operating Entity: Massachusetts Commission for the Blind (MCB), Deaf Blind Extended Supports (DBES) Unit
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program provides vocational rehabilitation services to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. This includes vocational counseling and guidance; vocational evaluation to determine skills, abilities, and potential to work; vocational training; purchase of hearing aids and appropriate communications devices; interpreter services for the purpose of obtaining and maintaining employment; job placement assistance; and rehabilitation technology services.
Operating Entity: Rhode Island Department of Human Services, Rhode Island Office of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Rhode Island
This program provides vocational rehabilitation and independent living services specifically for people who are deaf or hard of hearing across the state.
Operating Entity: Hawai’i Department of Human Services, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Hawaii
The Division of Vocational Rehabilitation has counselors who are specially trained to understand the needs and abilities of people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind. Services include trainings on hearing loss issues in the workplace, guidance and counseling on coping with hearing loss, and interpreting services for job interviews.
Operating Entity: Florida Department of Education, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Florida
This program is designed to support those with significant disabilities on their journey to sustainable employment, through customized employment and training, integrated services, and more.
Operating Entity: Georgia Department of Economic Development, Disability Employment Initiative (DEI)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Georgia
This program supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities at work, at home, and in the community. It provides day services that include self advocacy training and work skills and employment services and training.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Northern Rocky Mountain
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Montana
This five-day camp is designed to expose middle school girls with disabilities (6th-9th grades in the fall) to STEM topics, including hands-on activities and experiments.
Operating Entity: PACER Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program helps students with disabilities obtain academic credits outside of their traditional school walls. Students are matched with professions and learn more about the skills and education required to be successful in that field. Classroom skills training includes resume building, mock interviews, appropriate work-site behavior, and professionalism.
Operating Entity: Granite State
Independent
Living
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Hampshire
EDSN serves as an employment agency that helps people with disabilities obtain integrated, competitive employment with a wide range of private sector employers.
Operating Entity: Easterseals DC MD VA
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Virginia
This program works with the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) and the Department of Health Services (DHS) to help students transition from school to the world of work and community services. This includes providing Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) beginning as early as age 14.
Operating Entity: Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Wisconsin
This program helps Arizona residents who are blind prepare for employment or educational opportunities. These services include career exploration, job readiness, job development, remedial education, tuition and supply assistance, reader and note taker services, tutoring, GED preparation, and alternative media.
Operating Entity: SAAVI Services for the Blind
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arizona
This program provides a range of services to assist individuals with disabilities in preparing for and attaining work. Services include vocational evaluation, assistance preparing for interviews, job placement services, job coaching, supported employment, employment skills technology training, preparation for jobs in the janitorial industry, and more.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Capital Region & Eastern Connecticut
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Connecticut
This program matches people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to unpaid internships at Temple University Hospital and Temple’s University Main Campus in Philadelphia with a goal of achieving long-term, part-time employment.
Operating Entity: Temple University, Institute on Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Pennsylvania
The Employment Opportunities Program (EOP) enables individuals with the most significant disabilities who need on-going support to maintain competitive employment after stability has been achieved and who are not eligible for on-going employment support from other sources.
Operating Entity: Connecticut State Department of Aging and Disability Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Connecticut
This program helps individuals find employment opportunities in the community at minimum wage or higher. Services are designed to help individuals identify skills and interests, develop relationships with community businesses, and ultimately carve out a long-term career path.
Operating Entity: Mandy’s Farm
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Mexico
These services help individuals with visual impairment or blindness develop the skills and confidence to join the workforce. Services include job readiness and skills assessments, career exploration and counseling, job shadowing, job coaching, and more.
Operating Entity: BLIND, Inc.
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program provides workforce development, job skills training, and job placement services to help people who are deaf or blind enhance their employment skills.
Operating Entity: Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, E.H. Gentry Program
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Alabama
This program creates and prepares work settings that promote the most independent work for individuals with disabilities, based on individualized plans to guide clients to their fullest potential.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Colorado
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Colorado
This program trains clients who are visually impaired or blind on job readiness skills. Specific services include vocational and situational assessments, resume support, interviewing skills development, job development, job placement and retention services, job coaching services, job accommodation support, and travel training.
Operating Entity: Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This program provides a range of employment training services in a classroom setting, including vocational assessments, benefits planning counseling, job skill development and maintenance, job development and placement, job coaching, pre-vocational training, and employer advocacy and support.
Operating Entity: The Arc in Hawai’i
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Hawaii
These services include Pre-Employment Training Services and Community Work Transition Services, which help high school students ages 14-21 become college or career ready by graduation. Other services include Supported Employment and Employment and Retention, which provide job coaching and assistance with job applications, resumes, interview skills, and more.
Operating Entity: Easterseals West Kentucky
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Kentucky
This program provides a variety of services to graduates of Workforce and Technology Center training programs and other individuals with disabilities. Services include job search assistance, cover letter and resume development, interviewing skills preparation, career search skills, business etiquette training, networking and job development, and education on how to disclose disabilities and request accommodations.
Operating Entity: Maryland Department of Education, Division of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Maryland
This program provides assistance and training to help individuals with developmental disabilities maintain and improve their skills in vocational activities and enhance their social and personal development and well-being within the context of vocational goals. These services develop paid employment opportunities in integrated settings.
Operating Entity: New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, Bureau of Developmental Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Hampshire
This program provides guidance and counseling, transition services, job search and placement, assistive technology and equipment, as well as other services tailored to the specific needs of individuals with disabilities. It also provides various resources to help people attend state community colleges and career/technical schools, including tuition, fees, books, tools, uniforms, and supplies.
Operating Entity: New Mexico Public Education Department, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Mexico
This program supports individuals with disabilities in developing the necessary skills to obtain work in the community, find a suitable job, and succeed in the workplace. Prevocational services focus on identifying vocational interests and sharpening job-specific skills and global job skills, such as employer expectations and workplace behavior.
Operating Entity: The Arc of New York
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New York
Employment Specialists help individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities find and maintain competitive integrated employment in the Austin community. Services include supported employment, job placement, work experience, job skills training, and more.
Operating Entity: The Arc – Capital Area
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Texas
This program helps adults with disabilities find and keep jobs through one-on-one support. All services are provided free of charge.
Operating Entity: Easterseals – Central Texas
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Texas
This program seeks to economically empower people with disabilities by helping them build sustainable businesses. The program offers mentoring, employment and entrepreneurship workshops, art classes, and hosts an online shop where artists can sell their work.
Operating Entity: Synergies Work
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Georgia
This program prepares people with disabilities to find and keep a job through services like career exploration, job search assistance, job placement, and coaching. It also includes school-to-work transition services, as well as supported employment services.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Alaska
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Alaska
This job readiness program utilizes technology in schools and community centers to provide training to students with disabilities ages 14 to 24 to prepare them for future employment. The program introduces students to job search engines and the online job application process, and offers hands-on experience with technology students might find in the workplace.
Operating Entity: Easterseals – Central Texas
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Texas
This program provides coordinated vocational employment services, including industry-specific training programs, to adults ages 21 and older with developmental disabilities.
Operating Entity: State of Connecticut Department of Developmental Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Connecticut
This program offers a range of services – including occupational counseling, re-employment services, employment services, and referrals – to help connect employers and job applicants, and pays special attention to serving people with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Puerto Rico Department of Labor and Human Resources (PRDOLHR)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Puerto Rico
This program provides a variety of services to help people with disabilities address employment challenges and achieve personal goals. Services include temporary job placement in Easterseals industries, assignment of a job coach, transportations supports, and more.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Georgia
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Georgia
This program includes internship programs and job training and coaching services to help people with disabilities attain employment. It also includes the Latino Connection program, which provides training and education to Latino and non-native English speaking participants focusing on employment.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Oregon
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Oregon
This program provides supported employment services to Rhode Island residents with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It focuses on providing work readiness training, preparing participants for careers playing to their strengths, developing community ties, counseling participants on career options, and engaging participants in customized training for their selected job.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Rhode Island
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Rhode Island
This program helps out-of-school youth with disabilities find jobs in competitive integrated settings. Participants are connected with entry-level jobs with a chance for advancement, and the program compensates employers for payroll expenses.
Operating Entity: Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Kansas
Nebraska Vocational Rehabilitation and the Nebraska Department of Education’s Special Education division offer enhanced transitions services for students with disabilities, including around benefits planning in relation to career choices, communicating disability-related work support and accommodation needs, and finding and requesting support or accommodations in education, training, and employment settings.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Nebraska
This postsecondary vocational training program provides 10-13 week training sessions in hospitality, food service, healthcare, and inventory distribution to help individuals with disabilities master key job skills and gain valuable work experience through an internship. It also includes Camp EGTI, which is focused on assisting youth with disabilities in their transitions from school to adulthood, as well as two-day Career Sampling sessions, which enable participants to shadow employees and perform portions of the job.
Operating Entity: The Arc of Indiana
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Indiana
This program provides vocational, psychological, transitional, and driver education services to assist individuals with disabilities in living and working independently.
Operating Entity: Southern Illinois University Carbondale, School of Education, Rehabilitation Institute
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Illinois
Express Yourself! Art is an art, recreational, and vocational program that seeks to give individuals with disabilities skills to express themselves, explore creative interests, and discover career opportunities in the arts. The program also helps individuals with disabilities build confidence and leadership abilities.
Operating Entity: Mississippi State University, T.K. Martin Center for Technology and Disability
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Mississippi
This program provides additional and continuous employment support to some Vocational Rehabilitation clients, including ongoing job coaching to help participants overcome unique work barriers.
Operating Entity: Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Disability Employment and Transitions Division
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Montana
This mentoring program pairs college and high school students with learning disabilities and/or ADHD with similarly-labeled middle school students, to help the younger students embrace their learning differences and develop social-emotional skills that promote their academic and personal success, such as confidence, self-advocacy skills, and perseverance.
Operating Entity: University of Southern California
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: California
This program helps train youth with disabilities to be farmers, and helps individuals with developmental disabilities become entrepreneurs of agribusiness. Career training opportunities include farm management, packing shed management, food safety, and alternative production methods such as aquaponics. The program gives graduates discounts on aquaponics or other agricultural systems, to facilitate a career in agriculture.
Operating Entity: Milestone Cooperative
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Mississippi
FACT provides intensive, community-based treatment, rehabilitation, and support services for adults with severe and persistent mental illness who have not responded well to traditional treatment. The Division of Vocational Rehabilitation provides staff liaisons to help serve this group of customers in a comprehensive manner.
Operating Entity: Florida Department of Children and Families, Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Florida
This program provides workforce training and education to at-risk population groups, including individuals with disabilities. It helps participants attain careers in targeted industries, including advanced manufacturing, healthcare, information technology, logistics, and energy. Participants receive counseling services, literacy training, job skills training, high school equivalency services, work experience, and more.
Operating Entity: Northeast Mississippi Community College
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Mississippi
GIB employs people who are blind in two locations across the state.
Operating Entity: Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency (GVRA)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Georgia
This faith-based, three-year program helps students with intellectual disabilities develop independence skills and receive specific vocational training leading to employment in a college-like environment. It includes hands-on training in one of the following areas: Culinary Arts, Hospitality, Horticulture.
Operating Entity: Green Oaks School
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Texas
This group home living opportunity enables adults to participate in local employment programs and workshops. Services also include trainings on self-advocacy, social integration, community access, and other topics.
Operating Entity: In-Pact
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Indiana
This program supports transition-aged youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities in achieving a fulfilling and self-empowered adult life. HEELS Prep provides career exploration, self-management, social participation, independent living and safety programs. HEELS UP is an abridged inclusive postsecondary education program. The HEELS Bridge program bridges the transition to higher education. The program is a collaboration between the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, TEACCH Autism Program, Kidpower International, and other University of North Carolina and community partners.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: North Carolina
This program helps individuals with intellectual disabilities develop, strengthen, and maintain daily living and work skills through seven Transitional Service Centers. Employment Trainers work with clients to help them achieve their employment goals.
Operating Entity: Puerto Rico Department of Health, Division of Services for People with Intellectual Disability (DSPID) Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Puerto Rico
This program provides a range of services to residents at the Access Center for Independent Living, including around advocacy leadership, youth transition, independent living, and employment preparation. It also offers peer support groups.
Operating Entity: Access to Independence Hawai’i
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Hawaii
HELP-Link is a free workforce program for Montanans covered by Medicaid, which connects Medicaid enrollees with high quality workforce training, employment services and job openings in local communities. Services include assistance with resumes, cover letters, job applications, interview skills, and more.
Operating Entity: Montana Department of Labor and Industry
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Montana
The North Dakota Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and North Dakota Vision Services/School for the Blind co-sponsor an annual summer program for students who are blind or visually impaired and who are currently in grades 9-12. It focuses on lessons regarding college and employment readiness, including higher education access and employment skills such as interviewing and job research.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: North Dakota
This program offers two types of employment services to individuals with disabilities. The first is Employment Assistance, which helps people find competitive, integrated employment. The second is Supported Employment which helps people maintain their current employment.
Operating Entity: Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Texas
The Arkansas Department of Human Services has five human development centers throughout Arkansas for individuals with severe developmental disabilities. The Centers provide vocational training, work experience, and job opportunities, among other services.
Operating Entity: Arkansas Department of Human Services, Arkansas Division of Developmental Disabilities Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Arkansas
This program is a work-readiness camp and post-secondary transition program for students ages 15 to 21 who are deaf or hard of hearing. Students engage in four weeks of paid work experience and learn how to find and secure long-term employment and about the skills and technology that might help them in the pursuit.
Operating Entity: Idaho Educational Services for the Deaf and the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Idaho
This program matches students with disabilities to workplace mentors according to their expressed career interests. Students experience a typical day on the job and learn how to prepare to enter the world of work.
Operating Entity: Idaho Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Idaho
This program helps farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers with disabilities attain gainful employment in production agriculture or a related occupation, access appropriate assistive technology needed for work and daily living activities, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Illinois
This program includes six inclusive higher education programs for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities on college campuses across Tennessee. These non-degree programs enable students to take college courses, have internships and jobs, and build relationships with their peers, with the goal of developing employment and independent living skills and experiencing a variety of potential work environments.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Tennessee
This commercial cleaning service is operated by Easterseals New Hampshire and employs veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals without disabilities who provide quality floor care and custodial services to businesses throughout New Hampshire.
Operating Entity: Easterseals New Hampshire
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Hampshire
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Alabama
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Arizona
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Colorado
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Florida
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Hawaii
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Idaho
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Indiana
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Kentucky
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: Alpha One
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Maine
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: LIFE (Living Independence for Everyone) of Mississippi
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Mississippi
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: North Carolina
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Nebraska
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Nevada
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Ohio
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oregon
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Puerto Rico
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: South Carolina
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Tennessee
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Utah
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: Vermont Center for Independent Living (VCIL)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Vermont
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Wisconsin
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Wyoming
This program helps people who are both deaf and developmentally disabled to enhance their self-sufficiency through pre-vocational and day habilitation activities.
Operating Entity: Deaf Reach
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This program helps farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers with disabilities attain gainful employment in production agriculture or a related occupation, access appropriate assistive technology needed for work and daily living activities, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Indiana
This program helps individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities access and maintain employment in the community. Participants receive assistance on employment planning, job coaching, and problem solving.
Operating Entity: Hawai’i Behavioral Health
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Hawaii
This program helps people with severe mental illness find competitive community employment and provides ongoing, individualized services with a focus on employment. Services include personalized benefits counseling, ongoing treatment to manage medications, and peer support.
Operating Entity: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS), Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services (DVRS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: North Carolina
This program helps people with mental health conditions find and keep meaningful work. It is sponsored by the Illinois Department of Human Services, Divisions of Mental Health and Rehabilitation Services.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Illinois
This program places people with severe mental illness in competitive employment, with supportive on-site assistance as needed. IPS is a collaboration between the South Carolina Department of Mental Health (SCDMH) and the South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department (SCVRD).
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: South Carolina
This program provides supported employment services to individuals with mental illness and substance-related disorders, including those with other diagnoses.
Operating Entity: Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, Division of Mental Health Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Tennessee
This program provides vocational rehabilitation services to job applicants with disabilities, including around career preparation, job coaching and general support.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Michigan
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Michigan
Family to Family Network helps individuals with disabilities navigate life as a young person and find success in adulthood. The program also provides support to family members. Services include case management, referrals to community resources, support groups, Pre-Employment Transition Services, and more.
Operating Entity: Family to Family Network
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Texas
This program provides services and counseling to help people with disabilities obtain competitive employment. Hawai’i Division of Vocational Rehabilitation also connects participants with local employers and work opportunities.
Operating Entity: Hawai’i Department of Human Services, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Hawaii
These trainings help prepare and place people with disabilities into computer-related fields, including customer service and office support, computer-aided drafting, networking and server support, and jobs that require the Microsoft Office suite.
Operating Entity: South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: South Carolina
This program expands vocational rehabilitation and Pre-Employment Transition services by enabling community college team members to collaborate with Iowa Vocational Rehabilitation Services and provide career readiness and career exploration services to school districts where gaps are identified.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Iowa
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors assist individuals who are blind or visually impaired in developing and refining skills that will enhance their ability to enter and maintain employment. Counseling activities may include assessments to determine a person’s strengths and support needs as related to a job – from technology use to activities of daily living – and then creating a training plan.
Operating Entity: Washington State Department of Services for the Blind (DSB)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Washington
JET is a summer learning program for students with disabilities, which provides different work experiences and job readiness classroom instruction. The 2019 program was run in collaboration with the Birmingham Zoo.
Operating Entity: Workshops, Inc.
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Alabama
This program trains and places individuals with disabilities into jobs, on behalf of the New Mexico Council for Purchasing from Persons With Disabilities.
Operating Entity: Horizons of New Mexico
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Mexico
This 10-part workshop series teaches students with disabilities the basic skills necessary to be successful in the workplace. Topics include self-discovery, job-readiness, job-seeking, and job-keeping.
Operating Entity: Utah Department of Workforce Services, Office of Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Utah
This career and technical education program helps prepare students for continuing their education while earning certifications in high-wage career sectors. The program has been expanded to focus on students with disabilities in particular, through the New Skills for Youth grant.
Operating Entity: Louisiana Department of Education
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Louisiana
This program offers intensive assistance to youth transitioning to adulthood to help them access and succeed in employment, education, housing, positive relationships, community connections, and independent living. The program is available to youth ages 16 to 21 who are experiencing significant emotional or behavioral challenges that interfere with their potential. It is a collaboration between the Vermont Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and the Departments of Corrections, Mental Health, and Children and Families.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Vermont
This program provides workforce services to people living in regions that lack a permanent workforce center, including career counseling, resume assistance, career development workshops, skills training, and more. Centers are ADA compliant and feature computer labs and internet access.
Operating Entity: Kansas Department of Commerce
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Kansas
This program provides a range of vocational services to individuals with disabilities, including services specifically for transition-age youth. This includes offering Pre-Employment Transition Services, connecting youth with disabilities to employment opportunities, providing career counseling, empowering youth to earn high wage and in-demand jobs, and connecting with in-school services for youth with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Kansas Department for Children and Families, Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Kansas
This program provides paid summer employment to blind and visually impaired youth in a residential setting. It requires students to also secure internships in their local community, in order to make connections and expand their summer experience into year-long career exploration.
Operating Entity: Vermont Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living, Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Vermont
LEAP is a summer program designed to help students with disabilities gain the confidence and skills for independent living and employment.
Operating Entity: Texas A&M University, Center on Disability and Development
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Texas
This program provides students aged 16-21 with tools, training and resources to work competitively and forge a path to independence. Services include vocational and career counseling, job search tools, on-the-job and hands-on work experience, assistive technology services and training, school-to-work services, self-advocacy support and training, peer mentoring services, workplace readiness training, benefits counseling, and ongoing resource support.
Operating Entity: Connecticut State Department of Aging and Disability Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Connecticut
This program offers adults with disabilities or deafness the opportunity to live and work as independently as possible in their communities. Services include skills training in independent living, work readiness, relationship building, self-advocacy, and health.
Operating Entity: Goodwill Northern New England
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Maine
These services assist individuals with significant disabilities with maintaining employment.
Operating Entity: Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services (DARS), Division of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Virginia
This program provides vocational rehabilitation services to individuals with combined hearing and vision loss. Services include supported employment, independent living services, employment connections, transition services, and more.
Operating Entity: Mississippi Department of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Mississippi
This program helps farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers with disabilities attain gainful employment in production agriculture or a related occupation, access appropriate assistive technology needed for work and daily living activities, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Maine
MD-YLF is a week-long leadership program open to students with disabilities entering their final two years of high school. Activities take place on a college campus and help students gain leadership skills, plan for their careers, and learn about assistive technology and community supports.
Operating Entity: Independence Now
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Maryland
This program provides paid work-based learning experience and job readiness training for transition-age youth ages 14-24. The DC Department of Disability Services and the Office of the State Superintendent of Education collaborate with the Department of Employment Services to ensure youth with disabilities are identified early on and have the appropriate supports to be successful in their work experiences.
Operating Entity: DC Department of Employment Services (DOES)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This three-month program provides communication, leadership, and vocational skill building for young adults with disabilities. This includes skill-building workshops on topics such as resume development, interviewing, and formal e-mail communication, as well as off-site group community service projects, site visits to places that employ those with disabilities, and opportunities to network.
Operating Entity: Dreams for Kids
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This initiative will develop 1,024 Youth Registered Apprentices in the state and ensure at least 124 of those apprentices are youth with disabilities. The program is a partnership between the Michigan Department of Education Office of Career and Technical Education, and the Department of Labor & Economic Opportunity Rehabilitation Services.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Michigan
MYP serves low-income and at-risk youth (including those with disabilities) by providing hands-on opportunities to apply skills they learn in the classroom and engage in career exploration and counseling, work readiness skills, and financial literacy training. Nearly half of participants have a disability.
Operating Entity: Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), Office of Youth Development
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Minnesota
These Centers provide onsite job services to people with disabilities, and provide additional access to remote job fairs and other employment and training events. The Centers are operated by CareerSource Florida, the statewide workforce policy and investment board consisting of the Department of Economic Opportunity, 24 local workforce development boards, and 100 career centers throughout the state.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Florida
This program helps youth with disabilities develop leadership skills, academic and career goals, a strong work ethic, and independence through technology, community support, and peer mentoring.
Operating Entity: Montana Youth Leadership Forum
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Montana
This conference provides youth with disabilities the opportunity to network with other youth statewide and gain leadership skills. Youth also receive guidance and support for successful transitions from school to achieve their individual education, employment, recreational, and housing goals.
Operating Entity: Utah Statewide Independent Living Council
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Utah
This one-day program assists high school juniors (including those with disabilities) in identifying their unique strengths and interests and the contributions they will bring to the workplace.
Operating Entity: Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency (GVRA), Roosevelt Warm Springs/Cave Spring Center
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Georgia
This program provides youth with disabilities with a unique recreational experience that prepares them for school, work, and life inclusion. Participants learn about their disabilities, understand the importance of communication and listening skills, explore and share their talents and strengths, understand accommodations in the school and workplace, learn about independent living, and learn about the services necessary for job seeking and secondary education.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Nebraska
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Nebraska
This program provides vocational rehabilitation (VR) services to immigrants and refugees with disabilities. The New Americans team consists of a lead rehabilitation counselor and two community liaison representatives.
Operating Entity: Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), Vocational Rehabilitation Services (VRS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program helps individuals who are blind obtain skills for increased self-confidence, empowerment, and employment. The program instructs participants in Braille and alternative communication formats, business practices, computers and assistive technology, mobility competencies, personal and home management, and more.
Operating Entity: Hawai’i Department of Human Services, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Hawaii
This program certifies disadvantaged youth (including those referred by a rehabilitation agency) for work, then provides counselors to connect youth to opportunities at participating businesses.
Operating Entity: New York State Department of Labor, Career Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New York
This program helps farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers with disabilities attain gainful employment in production agriculture or a related occupation, access appropriate assistive technology needed for work and daily living activities, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Ohio
This program works with state agency departments to target and increase paid on the job training (OJT) limited term employment (LTE) internship opportunities for job seekers with disabilities. It also helps interns develop valuable experiences and references to prepare them to compete for LTE or permanent state agency positions.
Operating Entity: Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Wisconsin
This program helps students with disabilities engage in paid work experience and develop work readiness skills before exiting secondary education. It is a collaborative effort between local school districts and Arkansas Rehabilitation Services.
Operating Entity: Arkansas Division of Workforce Services, Arkansas Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Arkansas
This program provides services to transition-age youth with disabilities to support their employment or career-related postsecondary education or training goals. It services include individualized planning, academic and vocational instruction, instruction in independent living, career development services, and connection to paid employment opportunities. It is a collaboration between the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, the Oregon Department of Education, and the University of Oregon.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oregon
This in-depth residential training program provides people who are blind or visually impaired with training and assistance on how to adapt to employment opportunities, utilize adaptive devices, explore career options, and develop various other career preparatory skills. Clients can also learn specific trades, such as woodworking.
Operating Entity: Oregon Commission for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Oregon
These programs assist individuals with disabilities in obtaining employment. Specific programs include the Adults Vocational Program, which provides job readiness trainings, job placement assistance, and other resources, as well as Vocational Evaluation Services, which provide a comprehensive assessment of a person’s vocational aptitudes.
Operating Entity: Easterseals of Alabama
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Alabama
This program utilizes a variety of services to help youth with barriers to employment (including youth with disabilities) in the Denver Metro Area succeed through career exploration, education, training and support services. Services focus on transition to post-secondary education, career exploration, job readiness, and training services.
Operating Entity: Ability Connection Colorado
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Colorado
This pre-vocational program seeks to empower individuals with developmental disabilities by providing them with tools to expand their vocational skills through opportunities set in a supervised environment.
Operating Entity: PEAK Community Services
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Indiana
This program enables students to participate in one week of non-paid job readiness training to prepare for work, followed by a part-time paid experience for five weeks. On-the-job worksite trainers provide support to students as needed.
Operating Entity: Idaho Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Idaho
This program helps low-income teens and young adults with disabilities in Delaware prepare for work, find jobs, and succeed in the workplace. Services include career exploration and assessment, supported employment, benefits counseling, financial counseling, and assistive technology assistance.
Operating Entity: Delaware Health and Social Services (DHSS), Division of Services for Aging and Adults with Physical Disabilities (DSAAPD)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Delaware
This program provides classes and mentoring to help people with developmental disabilities share information and skills to attain employment. It is a collaboration between the Oregon Council on Developmental Disabilities (OCDD) and the Oregon Self Advocacy Coalition (OSAC).
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oregon
This program provides an array of integrated rehabilitation, treatment, and support services to help people with serious mental illness manage their illness and live successfully in their communities, including finding and keeping a job.
Operating Entity: New York State Office of Mental Health
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New York
This statewide project assists young adults with developmental disabilities and their families in charting a life course for adulthood. The program offers a variety of resources including informational sessions, webinars, and resource guides/materials related to postsecondary education, employment, and self-direction. The program also runs monthly student and parent clubs and coordinates various transition events throughout the year.
Operating Entity: The Arc of New Jersey
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Jersey
PERT is a school-to-work transition initiative that includes various assessments, as well as a Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) Career Day, a Transition Academy, and a Manufacturing Academy.
Operating Entity: Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services (DARS), Wilson Workforce and Rehabilitation Center (WWRC)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Virginia
This three-semester program enables students with disabilities to take classes at Delgado Community College related to specific apprenticeship areas, participate in career development activities, learn community and work skills, and gain employment experience through two 10-week paid internships or apprenticeships. It is a collaboration between the Louisiana State University Human Development Center, Louisiana Rehabilitation Services, Delgado Community College, public school systems, and employers in the New Orleans metro area.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Louisiana
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Arkansas
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: California
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Connecticut
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Georgia
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Idaho
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Indiana
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Kentucky
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Massachusetts
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Michigan
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Missouri
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: North Carolina
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New Hampshire
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New Mexico
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New York
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oklahoma
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Rhode Island
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Tennessee
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Utah
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Vermont
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Wisconsin
The Postsecondary Supports Project is a postsecondary education program for students with intellectual disabilities. It provides students an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in campus life.
Operating Entity: University of Hawai’i, Center on Disability Studies
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Hawaii
PREP is a nine-week introductory program designed to provide clients with introductory exposure to soft skills relating to securing employment, interpersonal interactions, and independent living.
Operating Entity: Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services (DARS), Wilson Workforce and Rehabilitation Center (WWRC)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Virginia
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Alabama
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Arizona
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Colorado
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: District of Columbia
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Florida
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Hawaii
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Idaho
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Indiana
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Kentucky
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Massachusetts
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Maine
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Minnesota
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Mississippi
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: North Carolina
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Nebraska
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New Jersey
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Nevada
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oklahoma
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Pennsylvania
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Rhode Island
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: South Dakota
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Texas
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Virginia
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Washington
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: West Virginia
This program offers workshops and daily activities on a farm, as well as community activities, to help clients build life skills and form meaningful relationships in the community. Clients take part in service learning, farmer’s market sales, and extensive recreational activities.
Operating Entity: Mandy’s Farm
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Mexico
This program provides comprehensive job training and other job-related services for individuals with significant intellectual and developmental disabilities. It focuses on providing careers in gardening and lawn care, janitorial services, automotive maintenance, and carpentry. It also prepares participants with job seeking skills, such as completing job applications, creating resumes, mock interviews, job fairs, and more.
Operating Entity: REM Mississippi
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Mississippi
Progressive employment consists of short-term placement opportunities that allow individuals to try out a new work scenario, build valuable skills, and demonstrate their capabilities to employers. Work placement opportunities can include everything from an informational interview and company tour to job shadowing and short-term placements.
Operating Entity: Vermont Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Vermont
Project CASE is designed to increase the numbers of individuals with disabilities who are working in fields like Manufacturing, Healthcare, Information Technology, and Culinary Arts. The program provides direct services to help individuals access necessary training and post-secondary educational opportunities, and uses Career Pathway Coordinators to reach employers who can provide work experiences such as job shadowing, internships, apprenticeships and job placement in these fields.
Operating Entity: Kentucky Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Kentucky
This supported employment program connects people with disabilities to integrated employment opportunities in their community. Job Developers work closely with program participants to determine interests and aptitude, and connect them with appropriate employers. Job Coaching staff train participants in on-the-job skills and provide ongoing support.
Operating Entity: The Arc of New Jersey
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program provides individual assistance, workshops, resources, and more to help youth and young adults with disabilities pursue meaningful careers, live as independently as possible, and enjoy inclusion at work and in the community. Guidance and information is also offered to families, and focuses on transition, employment, the role of vocational rehabilitation counselors, and more.
Operating Entity: PACER Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Indiana
This program provides individual assistance, workshops, resources, and more to help youth and young adults with disabilities pursue meaningful careers, live as independently as possible, and enjoy inclusion at work and in the community. Guidance and information is also offered to families, and focuses on transition, employment, the role of vocational rehabilitation counselors, and more.
Operating Entity: PACER Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program provides intensive, direct support for youth with disabilities in New York City who are transitioning into adult life. Participants create and implement a practical plan designed to lead to job training, employment, higher education, or other community engagement.
Operating Entity: includeNYC
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New York
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Alabama
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Arizona
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Colorado
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: District of Columbia
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Florida
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Hawaii
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Idaho
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Indiana
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Kentucky
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Massachusetts
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Michigan
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Missouri
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Montana
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Nebraska
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New Jersey
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Nevada
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Ohio
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oregon
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Rhode Island
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: South Dakota
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Tennessee
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Virginia
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Washington
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: West Virginia
Project Skills is a paid work experience program for high school students with disabilities. It provides participants the opportunity to learn different skills in a variety of job placements with the assistance of a job coach. It focuses on improving participants’ work history, references, and future job opportunities.
Operating Entity: South Dakota Department of Human Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: South Dakota
This program trains young adults ages 16-24 who are not attending school and who meet certain criteria (including having a disability) to develop skills and competencies demanded by the healthcare industry. The program includes 180 hours of training, leading to certificates and credentials. It is a WIOA Youth Program conducted in collaboration between the West Mid-Alabama Community Development Corporation, Shelton State Community College, and several county offices.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Alabama
This program provides social and economic rehabilitation for people with various disabilities through remunerated work opportunities in nonprofit workshops.
Operating Entity: Puerto Rico Department of the Family
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Puerto Rico
RAMP is a career-focused mentoring program for youth with disabilities who are currently involved with or are at risk of becoming involved with the juvenile justice system. RAMP supports successful life transitions to employment, continued learning opportunities, and independent living through a variety of mentoring approaches.
Operating Entity: Ability Connection Colorado
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Colorado
Nebraska VR provides financial support and consultation for five regional Transition Youth Conferences for students, aged 16-21, hosted at local community college sites. The conferences focus on employment, post-secondary educational opportunities, self-advocacy, utilizing community supports, and assistive technology.
Operating Entity: Nebraska Department of Education, Nebraska Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Nebraska
This program offers rehabilitation services including vocational evaluation, situational assessments, training, and job readiness classes to prepare individuals with disabilities for employment. Clients have opportunities to engage with business through internships, externships, job tours, job shadowing, and mentoring. Services are offered at seventeen Community Tennessee Rehabilitation Centers (CTRCs) across the state.
Operating Entity: Tennessee Department of Human Services, Division of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Tennessee
This eight-week course helps individuals with disabilities build job skills for the retail industry, through an average of 10 hours of paid training per week. This includes hands-on work experience, employment readiness training, job placement assistance, and instruction on various topics.
Operating Entity: Goodwill/Easterseals Minnesota (GESMN)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Minnesota
This residential campus provides opportunities for any student, particularly those with disabilities, to learn life skills and work towards professional certifications with the final goal of employment.
Operating Entity: Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency (GVRA), Roosevelt Warm Springs/Cave Spring Center
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Georgia
This program provides an introduction to entrepreneurship and small business concepts to students with disabilities. Students work through setting a goal, developing a business plan, and putting the plan into action.
Operating Entity: Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Alaska
STEPS is a resource center where young adults (ages 18-25) can receive mental health support. The program promotes self-advocacy, and offers opportunities for vocational, educational and social development.
Operating Entity: Wayside Youth & Family Support Network
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Massachusetts
STRIVE U is a postsecondary education program for students with intellectual disabilities. It provides students an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in campus life.
Operating Entity: Southern Maine Community College
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Maine
This program provides direct and indirect services to help youth with disabilities transition from school to work and obtain successful employment.
Operating Entity: New Hampshire Department of Education, Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Hampshire
SWAP is designed to provide employment-related assistance to students and young adults with disabilities. The program teaches job seeking and job retention skills, and operates in all of Colorado’s local education agencies through collaborative agreements among the Colorado Department of Education, the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, and local school districts.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Colorado
This program helps prepare students with special needs for post-graduation employment. Transition students explore career opportunities through job sampling at a variety of local businesses, which gives them real-life experience to better understand and participate in the world of work.
Operating Entity: The Arc Union County
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program provides an opportunity for individuals with disabilities and their families to meet with staff about concerns and participation in higher education, training, employment, or independent living.
Operating Entity: Colorado Department of Education, Office of Special Education
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Colorado
This program helps individuals with disabilities become self-employed, including by helping them develop business plans, cash flow projections, and personal budgets.
Operating Entity: Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services (DARS), Division of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Virginia
This program provides technical and financial assistance to help individuals with disabilities achieve self-sufficiency by starting, expanding, or purchasing a business. It is available to clients of Iowa Vocational Rehabilitation Services (IVRS) and Iowa Department for the Blind (IDB).
Operating Entity: Iowa Vocational Rehabilitation Services (IVRS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Iowa
These services help people with disabilities develop and pursue self-employment opportunities, in the form of one-on-one assistance to evaluate business ideas, identify opportunities, develop business plans, and understand funding alternatives.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Wisconsin
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Wisconsin
This program provides vocational development, placement, and job retention services, primarily in conjunction with 10 Community Services Boards and Behavioral Health Authorities located throughout the Commonwealth.
Operating Entity: Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services (DARS), Division of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Virginia
This program includes transition services for high school students who are blind or visually impaired; career counseling; summer transition programs; and vocational and college training.
Operating Entity: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS), Division of Services for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: North Carolina
This program provides employment services to people who are blind or visually impaired. The program focuses on independent living skills, orientation and mobility training, adaptive technology training, and vocational training opportunities.
Operating Entity: DC Department on Disability Services, Visual Impairment Services Unit
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This program provides specialized vocational rehabilitation and related services for people who are blind. Services include job maintenance support, job placement assistance, literacy programs, blindness education programs for service providers, transition services for youth, and more.
Operating Entity: Hawai’i Department of Human Services, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Hawaii
This program provides vocational rehabilitation and independent living services to individuals who are blind or visually impaired. Services include vocational counseling and guidance, career assessments, job placement and training, and more.
Operating Entity: Rhode Island Department of Human Services, Rhode Island Office of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Rhode Island
This program allows individuals with disabilities to work and receive training in a controlled environment with other people with disabilities. Workers are paid in accordance with individual production and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Services include assessment, training, and transitional services leading to community job placement if the individual chooses.
Operating Entity: Oklahoma Department of Human Services, Developmental Disabilities Service Division (DDSD)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Oklahoma
This program helps students learn communication skills and workplace behaviors (e.g., around attitude, work ethic, image and appearance, interpersonal skills, teamwork, time management, and accountability) needed to obtain and maintain successful competitive employment. It is provided to students and local educational agencies (LEAs) by a certified trainer from a Community Rehabilitation Program.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Alabama
This program provides job-readiness opportunities for students with disabilities who are unable to earn a state high school diploma, to ensure they have evidence of employability skills, and to honor their work in school.
Operating Entity: South Carolina Department of Education, Office of Special Education Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: South Carolina
This week-long program helps prepare high school students who are blind or visually impaired for careers or postsecondary education. Participants stay in dormitories at Augustana University and participate in a variety of activities that promote vocational learning, career exploration, social skills, self-advocacy, and independence.
Operating Entity: South Dakota Department of Human Services, South Dakota Division of Service to the Blind and Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: South Dakota
This program provides vocational services for high school students, through two Vocational Rehabilitation Services staff members assigned to every high school, as well as through Pre-Employment Transition Services. Services include assessment, vocational evaluation, training, rehabilitation counseling, assistive technology, job placement, and post-employment assistance.
Operating Entity: Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), Vocational Rehabilitation Services (VRS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program supports students with disabilities ages 16-21 in exploring and preparing for the world of work. Services are based on a consumer’s interests, and include job exploration and counseling on post-secondary options.
Operating Entity: California Department of Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: California
STEP helps high school students who are blind or visually impaired explore various career paths and learn essential job skills, as a first step toward gaining viable employment.
Operating Entity: Bosma Enterprises
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Indiana
This program provides services to help at-risk students with disabilities transition out of high school. Services include career assessments, independent living skills, internship development, benefits planning, interview and soft skill training, and more.
Operating Entity: Granite State
Independent
Living
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Hampshire
This vocational program helps young adults with mental health challenges find and maintain competitive employment. Services include vocational assessments, one-on-one job coaching, peer support, vocational skills groups, access to social activities, and more.
Operating Entity: South Shore Mental Health
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program is offered to students who are blind or visually impaired and includes three tracks. SAVVY World of Work provides career exploration activities, paid internships with job coaching, interviewing skills training, and counseling opportunities. SAVVY Youth in Transition provides classroom training and field trips to help students develop confidence, greater independence, life skills, social skills, and vocational and study skills. The SAVVY College Prep program provides training in college survival skills such as independent study habits and use of assistive technology.
Operating Entity: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS), Division of Services for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: North Carolina
This week-long program provides college-life experiences for middle school students, high school students and graduates, including those with disabilities. Activities include dorm tours, college-level writing workshop, group activities, and more.
Operating Entity: Kennesaw State University, Academy for Inclusive Learning and Social Growth
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Georgia
This program provides youth who are blind or visually impaired with meaningful work experience and career exploration, while reinforcing their adjustment to blindness. The curriculum includes orientation and mobility training, vocational evaluation, braille training, and more.
Operating Entity: South Carolina Commission for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: South Carolina
This program provides students with visual impairment with independent living experiences, skills training, and career exploration activities, including two- to four-week work experiences. Activities include recording elevator pitches for employers, engaging in mock interviews, developing a resume, and completing a technology evaluation. The program is housed at St. Thomas University.
Operating Entity: Minnesota Department of Education, Special Education Division
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program provides hands-on lessons to help people with disabilities develop and improve their independent living skills. Topics include time management, financial management, self-advocacy, dining etiquette, bullying, note taking, problem solving, social skills, and interviewing techniques.
Operating Entity: Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services, Vocational Rehabilitation Service (VRS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Alabama
SWEP is a six-week “paid work experience program” targeted toward youth who are deaf and/or blind, and which includes job readiness skills training.
Operating Entity: Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, E.H. Gentry Program
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Alabama
SWEP includes a five-week foundational program and a six-week more advanced program each summer in which youth who are blind or visually impaired engage in paid employment experiences and live in residences to develop skills in independent living and self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: Oregon Commission for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Oregon
This four-week program provides students with disabilities the tools and experience to gain and maintain employment after high school. It includes work-based learning, research into career clusters and pathways, assistance with resume writing, and training around interviews, soft skills, and self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: Access Alaska
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Alaska
This program provides work experiences and an instructional component to expose students with disabilities, ages 14 to 21, to career pathways and workplace expectations.
Operating Entity: Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Alaska
Supported Employment helps individuals with the most significant disabilities succeed in competitive employment through ongoing support services. These services are collaboratively planned and funded with various other agencies, including the Agency for Persons with Disabilities.
Operating Entity: Florida Department of Education, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Florida
This program provides intensive on-the-job supports and extended services to help individuals with the most significant disabilities work in competitive integrated work settings. Individual placement with supports (IPS) services are a supported employment model used for individuals with serious and persistent mental illness.
Operating Entity: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Missouri
This program helps individuals with severe mental illness secure and remain in competitive and fully-integrated employment opportunities. The program integrates individual choice of employment with integrated mental health treatment, personalized benefits planning, and continuous follow-along work supports.
Operating Entity: Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Addictive and Mental Disorders Division
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Montana
Supported Employment provides training and ongoing support to help individuals with the most significant disabilities maintain employment.
Operating Entity: North Dakota Department of Human Services, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: North Dakota
This program helps individuals with the most significant disabilities find, learn, and keep a job, including individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, serious mental illness, acquired brain injury and other significant disabilities. The Office of Rehabilitation partners with Community Rehabilitation Programs (CRP), the Division of Services for People with Disabilities (DSPD) and the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health (DSAMH) to assist individuals in their employment goals.
Operating Entity: Utah Department of Workforce Services, Office of Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Utah
This program helps individuals with developmental disabilities find and keep employment. Employment specialists help clients find a job that matches their needs and interests; identify the need for training, and work with employers to provide it; adapt the work site; and design the supports needed to do a job. The program provides support for as long as it is needed.
Operating Entity: Vermont Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Vermont
This program is aimed at finding competitive work in a community integrated work setting for persons with severe disabilities who need ongoing support services to learn and perform the work. Support is usually provided by a job coach who meets regularly with the individual on the job to help him or her learn the skills and behaviors to operate independently. As the individual gains mastery of the job, the support services are gradually phased out.
Operating Entity: California Department of Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: California
This program partners with more than 150 area employers to place individuals with serious mental illnesses and substance use conditions in jobs of their choice to create economic independence and further their recovery.
Operating Entity: Threshold
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Illinois
This program provides employment and education services to individuals with a mental health diagnosis, including career planning, job search assistance, job placement, on- and off-the-job coaching, and career advancement services.
Operating Entity: Connecticut State Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Connecticut
This program helps individuals with the most severe disabilities find and maintain fully integrated employment. The program provides workplace training at job sites and ongoing support.
Operating Entity: South Dakota Department of Human Services, South Dakota Division of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: South Dakota
This program provides training opportunities to help individuals with disabilities find competitive employment. Employment preparedness training covers training and skill development; understanding the workday, breaks, and use of sick/vacation days; feedback on job performance; pay for work completed while learning skills; and training for catering, baking and food preparation services, custodial and maintenance services, clerical, data entry, and pre-sort mail services.
Operating Entity: LifeScape
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: South Dakota
This program offers structured work experiences and related services to youth receiving Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) benefits. In 2019, 18% of participants had a disability. This project is a partnership between the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS), Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), and the Minnesota Association of Workforce Boards (MAWB).
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program provides academic, career, and financial counseling to its participants from disadvantaged backgrounds (including students with disabilities) and encourages them to graduate from high school and continue on to and complete their postsecondary education. It is implemented at various colleges and universities across the state and is funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Hawaii
This program includes a series of workshops to help youth adults with disabilities gain exposure to technology, engineering, and math concepts in a comfortable, inclusive, and hands-on setting. Topics include coding video games, websites, 3D printing, and robotics.
Operating Entity: PACER Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program provides an opportunity for youth and caregivers to discuss goals and explore options for the future, including around specialized healthcare needs, career interests, training and goals, social services and expectations, linkages to community agencies, and independent living. It also allows for coordination and information-sharing between youth-focused and adult-focused rehabilitation programs.
Operating Entity: Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services, Children’s Rehabilitation Service (CRS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Alabama
This program enables students with disabilities to choose and engage in areas of study that all have an emphasis on work-based learning and community integration through volunteer, practicum, and internship opportunities with business and industry. Upon completion of all courses, students receive a certificate of completion and have the opportunity to obtain national certifications and licenses that are industry-recognized, portable, and/or stackable.
Operating Entity: Tennessee Department of Human Services, Division of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Tennessee
This program provides a viable option for people with significant intellectual and developmental disabilities to obtain internships, on-the-job coaching, and career guidance with the State of California that can turn into long-term employment.
Operating Entity: California Department of Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: California
This program helps students with disabilities develop employment and independent living skills. Students receive consultation on their post-graduation transition plans and have an opportunity to work in the Indian River Eagle Company, which is an on-site silk screening and embroidery shop.
Operating Entity: Howard T. Ennis School
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Delaware
This program provides paid, temporary work opportunities for individuals with disabilities at Children’s Hospital Boston. The program’s focus is on helping participants develop work skills and behaviors that will enhance their vocational success.
Operating Entity: University of Massachusetts Boston, Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI)
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program provides a variety of skill-building and educational services to prepare people with disabilities for the workforce. This includes job preparedness instruction, job readiness training, job tryouts, internships, and on-the-job training. It also includes Job Driven Vocational Training, which trains individuals based on specific business needs in local communities.
Operating Entity: South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: South Carolina
This program provides training and employment for individuals who are blind or visually impaired to facilitate their full independence. Jobs and training through MIB are primarily in the manufacturing sector, although MIB also provides employees for the service sector (such as call centers).
Operating Entity: Mississippi Industries for the Blind
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Mississippi
This program provides assistance to young adults in the areas of vocational training, independent living, and post-secondary education to help them develop the skills needed to obtain and maintain competitive integrated employment. Services include job exploration; counseling; work-based learning experiences; workplace readiness training; post-secondary training; self-advocacy instruction; job placement; independent living skills; and follow-up and monitoring. TAP is a partnership between the Iowa Vocational Rehabilitation Services (IVRS) and Community School Districts.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Iowa
Transition Camps are 3-5 day cross-state conferences that provide Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) through presentations by businesses, postsecondary education institutions, and vocational training providers to help students develop a vision for their future. The program is a collaboration between the Alaska Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and the Alaska Department of Education.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Alaska
This program enables high school students with disabilities to participate in job exploration activities, as well as fiscal management activities as a component of independent living training. It is a collaboration between the Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services, local school systems, and local businesses.
Operating Entity: Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services, Vocational Rehabilitation Service (VRS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Alabama
This program provides enhanced, coordinated vocational services including Department of Rehabilitation Student Services and employment preparation to assist with job development, and short-term support services to successfully transition students with disabilities into meaningful employment. TPPs are established between the Department of Rehabilitation (DOR) and Local Education Agencies (LEAs).
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: California
This program is designed to help 16-21 year old’s who are blind or visually impaired prepare for employment and independent living. Participants stay at American University, participate in internships in the District, and attend trainings.
Operating Entity: Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This two-year comprehensive transition program provides young people with physical disabilities, ages 18-22, with instruction and opportunities to make a successful transition to adult life. Students learn vocational skills, empowerment / self-advocacy skills, mobility skills using public transportation resources, and more.
Operating Entity: Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS), Illinois Center for Rehabilitation and Education-Roosevelt (ICRE-R)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Illinois
This program connects students who are blind or visually impaired to transition specialists, who provide information on transition processes and post-high school training, education, and independent living options; assist in preparation for employment; assist in securing appropriate work experience through the Project Skills Program; and provide technical assistance, consultation, and training to students, parents, local school districts, and service providers. It is a joint effort between the South Dakota School for the Blind and the Service to the Blind and Visually Impaired.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: South Dakota
This program supports young adults with mental health challenges across a range of issues, including attaining employment. Peer mentors offer their firsthand experiences of living with and overcoming mental health issues to support and assist the young adults they are teamed up with on their road to recovery.
Operating Entity: Aspire Health Alliance
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program connects high school students with disabilities to potential employment opportunities. Vocational counselors assist students with resume writing, job applications, career preparation, educational preparation, and more.
Operating Entity: Arizona Department of Economic Security, Rehabilitation Services Administration
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Arizona
This program works with youth in transitioning from high school to post-secondary life, which includes college or employment. The program provides the necessary resources and life skills to gain independence.
Operating Entity: Atlantis Community Inc.
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Colorado
This program offers a variety of transition services for youth with disabilities as they prepare for life beyond high school, including career exploration and counseling, workplace readiness training, job shadowing, and work based learning experiences. The Idaho Division of Vocational Rehabilitation also collaborates with school districts to provide comprehensive vocational rehabilitation services to students with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Idaho Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Idaho
This program helps youth with IEPs transition from high school to post-secondary life by teaching basic life skills and preparing students to navigate college life, handle finances, navigate legal concerns, and search for employment.
Operating Entity: Prairie Independent Living Resource Center (PILR)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Kansas
This program provides comprehensive transition services for special needs students, to equip them for transitioning successfully into adulthood. Services include experiences to prepare participants for life in the community and workforce, activities and experiences to help students develop career goals and plan for post-secondary life, and more.
Operating Entity: Autism Center of Nebraska
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Nebraska
The Washoe County School District offers multiple transition services for high school students with disabilities. Students can receive elective credits for employment experience or authorized volunteer or community service. Additionally, the Community Based Vocational Exploration and Training Program provides non-paid vocational training placements for students with disabilities. The program also provides transition technical assistance and professional development to teachers and staff to meet the post-secondary goals of students transitioning to adult life after high school
Operating Entity: Washoe County School District, Transition Services Department
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Nevada
This program helps students with disabilities move from school to post-secondary activities and independent living, including through Pre-Employment Transition Services, work-based learning experiences, and career fairs. Services are coordinated with Local Educational Agencies, the Department of Labor and Human Resources, the Department of Education, and Puerto Rico Industries for the Blind.
Operating Entity: Puerto Rico Vocational Rehabilitation Administration (PRVRA)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Puerto Rico
This program assists youth with significant disabilities in transitioning to post-secondary life. Services include trainings around self-determination, job preparedness, IEP rights and responsibilities, and independent living.
Operating Entity: Northern West Virginia Center for Independent Living
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: West Virginia
This program helps students with disabilities prepare for employment and life after high school. Services include vocational counseling and guidance, assessment and evaluation, school work study, work adjustment training, on-the-job training, supported employment, and job development and placement.
Operating Entity: Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services (DRS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Oklahoma
This program includes eighteen short-term programs that provide career exploration, job readiness, and work-based learning opportunities to students with disabilities. Topics include self-advocacy, independent living, workplace readiness, job exploration, and more.
Operating Entity: Nebraska Department of Education, Nebraska Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Nebraska
New York has 28 college programs for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Programs offer peer mentoring, job training, and academic and employment experiences.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New York
This program provides pre-employment services to students with disabilities, including job exploration counseling, work readiness training, and paid internship opportunities.
Operating Entity: University of Southern Mississippi, Institute for Disability Studies
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Mississippi
This program assists youth with disabilities in their transitions to post-school life through services related to job preparedness, independent living, and IEPs.
Operating Entity: Appalachian Center for Independent Living
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: West Virginia
This program provides culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services to assist Alaska Native and American Indian individuals with disabilities residing on or near reservations in the state to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Program services are provided under an individualized plan for employment.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Alaska
This program provides culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services to assist Alaska Native and American Indian individuals with disabilities residing on or near reservations in the state to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Program services are provided under an individualized plan for employment.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: California
This program provides culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services to assist Alaska Native and American Indian individuals with disabilities residing on or near reservations in the state to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Program services are provided under an individualized plan for employment.
Operating Entity: Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Connecticut
This program provides culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services to assist Alaska Native and American Indian individuals with disabilities residing on or near reservations in the state to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Program services are provided under an individualized plan for employment.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Idaho
This program provides culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services to assist Alaska Native and American Indian individuals with disabilities residing on or near reservations in the state to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Program services are provided under an individualized plan for employment.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Louisiana
This program provides culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services to assist Alaska Native and American Indian individuals with disabilities residing on or near reservations in the state to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Program services are provided under an individualized plan for employment.
Operating Entity: Hannahville Indian Community
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Michigan
This program provides culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services to assist Alaska Native and American Indian individuals with disabilities residing on or near reservations in the state to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Program services are provided under an individualized plan for employment.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Montana
This program provides culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services to assist Alaska Native and American Indian individuals with disabilities residing on or near reservations in the state to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Program services are provided under an individualized plan for employment.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: North Dakota
This program provides culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services to assist Alaska Native and American Indian individuals with disabilities residing on or near reservations in the state to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Program services are provided under an individualized plan for employment.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New Mexico
This program provides culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services to assist Alaska Native and American Indian individuals with disabilities residing on or near reservations in the state to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Program services are provided under an individualized plan for employment.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New York
This program provides culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services to assist Alaska Native and American Indian individuals with disabilities residing on or near reservations in the state to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Program services are provided under an individualized plan for employment.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oregon
This program provides culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services to assist Alaska Native and American Indian individuals with disabilities residing on or near reservations in the state to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Program services are provided under an individualized plan for employment.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Washington
This program provides culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services to assist Alaska Native and American Indian individuals with disabilities residing on or near reservations in the state to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Program services are provided under an individualized plan for employment.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Wyoming
This program provides high school students with significant disabilities, ages 18 to 22, with opportunities to continue their transition and learning in integrated, age-appropriate environments with typical peers. CTP includes Advanced Community Training, which includes volunteering, working, interacting with the public; Project FOCUS (Focusing Opportunities with Community and University Support), where students enroll part-time at the University of Arizona; and Project SEARCH High School Transition Program-JTED, located at University of Arizona.
Operating Entity: Tucson Unified School District
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Arizona
This program enables students with disabilities to participate in STEM-related activities in University of Hawai’i-Manoa laboratories, hear presentations by working STEM Professionals, earn UH-Manoa credit in natural sciences and high school credit, and cultivate an interest in STEM careers.
Operating Entity: University of Hawai’i, Manoa College of Education, Center on Disability Studies
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Hawaii
This paid internship focuses on disability advocacy and leadership and will include self-study, seminars, experiential learning, and position-shadowing opportunities. Preference is given to adults with disabilities and their parents and family members, with the goal of enhancing trainee’s skills and knowledge regarding intellectual and developmental disabilities history, philosophy and practice.
Operating Entity: University of Nebraska Medical Center, Munroe-Meyer Institute
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Nebraska
This intensive, eight-week job training program helps individuals with developmental disabilities (14+ years of age) navigate the transition into adult life. Students participate in life-skills based courses, job fairs, job site tours, benefits counseling, mentoring with employed peers, and complete 40 hours of paid work in customized internships within local nonprofits and businesses
Operating Entity: Mandy’s Farm
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Mexico
This program assists students in finding employment and job shadowing opportunities, taking skills assessments, and preparing job applications.
Operating Entity: PQC Trains
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Indiana
This program oversees and provides support to the Randolph-Sheppard Program of Virginia, which helps individuals who are legally blind operate vending or cafeteria services within a federally-owned, funded, or leased facilities.
Operating Entity: Virginia Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired (DBVI)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Virginia
VIP is a pre-employment transition service that helps high school students ages 16-21 with developmental disabilities discover opportunities available after high school; learn what is expected of an employee; develop skills to gain competitive employment; and advocate for their rights. It is conducted in partnership with Arkansas Rehabilitation Services.
Operating Entity: ACCESS Arkansas
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arkansas
This program provides a range of services to help people with disabilities overcome employment obstacles. It includes job readiness training, job placement, supported employment, job coaching, and Pre-Employment Transition Services.
Operating Entity: UpLIFTD
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Louisiana
This program assists individuals who are blind or visually impaired achieve and maintain employment, through vocational training, job placement, orientation and mobility training, career counseling, and more.
Operating Entity: Florida Department of Education, Division of Blind Services (DBS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Florida
This program helps individuals who are blind or visually impaired become more employable and ultimately obtain employment. Services include vocational evaluation, counseling and guidance, career exploration, training, job placement, supported employment services, post-employment services, high school transitional services, college counseling/support, assistive technology services, computer training, and more.
Operating Entity: State of New Jersey Department of Human Services, Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program provides employment assistance services for individuals with physical or mental disabilities.
Operating Entity: Arizona Department of Economic Security, Rehabilitation Services Administration
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Arizona
This program helps individuals with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. It offers individualized services including vocational counseling, benefits counseling, job search assistance, school-to-work transition services, skills training and career education in college and/or vocational schools, on-the-job training, assistive technology services and training, vehicle and home modification, and supported employment services.
Operating Entity: Connecticut State Department of Aging and Disability Services, Bureau of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Connecticut
This one-stop career program offers individuals with disabilities a range of services to help them develop the skills and attitudes needed to develop a lifetime career. Services include work evaluation and job readiness services; assessment for and provision of assistive technology; job counseling services; and medical and therapeutic services.
Operating Entity: Louisiana Workforce Commission, Louisiana Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Louisiana
This program provides job counseling, on-the-job training, transportation assistance, employment accommodations, and more to individuals with disabilities who live on or near the White Earth Reservation. Individuals who work at least 20 hours per week or who are full-time students are eligible for these services.
Operating Entity: White Earth Nation, Division of Human Services
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program provides employment assistance services to individuals with disabilities, including a skills assessment, personalized employment counseling with a personalized employment plan, agency referral services, and connections to job opportunities.
Operating Entity: Nevada Department of Employment, Training, and Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Division
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Nevada
This program helps individuals with disabilities choose, prepare for, obtain and maintain employment. It involves personalized employment counseling and creating an employment plan, the provision of assistive technology, vocational training, housing and vehicle modification, and post-employment services.
Operating Entity: Rhode Island Department of Human Services, Rhode Island Office of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Rhode Island
This program helps individuals with disabilities achieve their employment goals, including through job exploration, job search services, assistive technology, and career advancement support.
Operating Entity: Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, Division of Disability and Rehabilitative Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Indiana
This program provides services to help individuals with disabilities find or keep a job. The program offers career exploration activities; information about skills and training; assistance acquiring tools, uniforms or basic equipment needed to start a job; and job coaching.
Operating Entity: State of Maine Department of Labor, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (VR)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Maine
This program provides vocational counseling, job search skill development, supported employment, assistive technology evaluations, and more to individuals with disabilities achieve their employment goals. The program also includes services specifically for deaf and hard of hearing individuals and English learners.
Operating Entity: State of New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program helps individuals who are blind, deaf-blind, and visually impaired reach their employment goals. Services range from adjustment to blindness to job placement assistance to assistive technology training.
Operating Entity: South Carolina Commission for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: South Carolina
This program provides vocational and rehabilitative services to individuals who are blind or visually impaired to help them prepare for, secure, and retain employment. Services include vocational and adjustment counseling; post-secondary school or vocational training; adaptive equipment for training and/or employment; customized and supported employment services; and job placement and follow-up services.
Operating Entity: Virginia Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired (DBVI)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Virginia
This program provides employment support to students ages 14 to 21, transition services to youth, and vocational rehabilitation services for all students who are legally blind, including those with additional disabilities. Opportunities include summer work experiences, job coaching, and mobility and orientation training.
Operating Entity: New York State Office of Children and Family Services, New York State Commission for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New York
This program provides a range of vocational services for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, including job training, job placement, career counseling, supported employment, on-the-job training, and assistance with interviewing and resume writing. It also includes a six-week Summer Work Program to help youth develop work skills and prepare for entry into the workforce.
Operating Entity: Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona, Community Outreach Program for the Deaf
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arizona
This program assist people with disabilities in achieving sustainable competitive integrated employment, maximizing independence, and gaining self-respect. Services include vocational evaluation, customized training, driver education, and an Academic and Lifeskills Program.
Operating Entity: Kentucky Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, Carl D. Perkins Vocational Training Center
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Kentucky
This program offers a wide range of employment services for individuals with disabilities, including community-based assessments, internships, job placement, and job coaching.
Operating Entity: Skills Incorporated
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Washington
This program provides job skills training for students with disabilities, leading to jobs or apprenticeships. Courses include driver’s education, automotive technology, certified nursing assistant, construction, culinary arts, and welding.
Operating Entity: Arkansas Division of Workforce Services, Arkansas Career Development Center
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Arkansas
The Joseph Kohn Training Center offers people who are blind and visually impaired an opportunity to learn independent life skills, including skills to attend college or seek employment. The program includes a career assessment and vocational counseling component.
Operating Entity: State of New Jersey Department of Human Services, Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Jersey
WAGES is a six-week work-based learning experience program held annually for blind and visually impaired youth ages 16 to 21. Participants live on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus and engage in work opportunities, professional skills training, self-advocacy activities, transportation practice, and more.
Operating Entity: Nebraska Commission for the Blind & Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Nebraska
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Alaska
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Arkansas
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: California
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Connecticut
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Delaware
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Georgia
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Iowa
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Illinois
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Kansas
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Louisiana
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Maryland
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Michigan
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Missouri
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Montana
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: North Dakota