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Provides services to individuals with disabilities. Services include pre-employment activities such as assistance with application, preparing for interviews and developing a resume, on-the-job training, follow-up service, and coordination of, or referral to, other agencies.

Offers empowering, customized employment programs to assist youth and adults living with disabilities and chronic illnesses by preparing them for competitive employment and community integration. Services include job placement, follow-up after employment, and educational programs to assess employability.

Seeks to further enhance an individual's living skills both in the center and in the community. Services include skill building, job training, and support in the areas of communication, socialization, community activities, and personal care.

Supports semi-skilled to high functioning individuals on the spectrum who are eager to enter the workforce with a company that will appreciate the contributions and talents they have to offer.

Provides job training and placement, vocational rehabilitation services and community activity programs to support individuals with intellectual disabilities and autism with independence, personal growth, community involvement, and lifelong learning.

Provides an integrated employment opportunity for outsourcing services for private industries. They are able to meet either short or long-term manpower needs by providing laborers at the job site, or within the MaxWorx facility.

Individuals with mental and intellectual disabilities who are in the Haven Program use their job readiness skills to operate the 4 C's cafe in the Clinton County Community Center.

Provides supportive services that assists individuals with disabilities prepare for, find, and retain paid employments.

Program broadly available to individuals with disabilities in general (rather than focusing on special groups within the disability population) that provide vocational assessment, job development, job training, job placement, specialized job situations and/or other supportive services that help people with disabilities prepare for, find and retain paid employment.

The Haven Program for individuals with developmental (mental and intellectual) disabilities equips clients with skills needed for job readiness and maximizes their abilities to contribute to their community.

Assists employers in retaining, recruiting, and hiring qualified workers. Job seekers are assisted in finding competitive employment. Services include resume and interview preparation, job-seeking skill development, community-based assessments, work site analysis for accommodations, job coaching supports, and follow-up services.

Operates a premier human resource organization specializing in the design and delivery of programs to assist persons with disabilities to achieve their greatest levels of independence through employment

Provides job training and placement, vocational rehabilitation services and community activity programs to support individuals with intellectual disabilities and autism with independence, personal growth, community involvement, and lifelong learning.

Provides job opportunities for individuals with developmental disabilities. Provides placement into community-based employment.

Provides comprehensive services to assist Pennsylvanians with disabilities prepare for, obtain and maintain employment. Services available include skills assessment, training, counseling, placement assistance, evaluation for assistive technology and ongoing support services. The Hiram G. Andrews Center offers post-secondary education at the Commonwealth Technical Institute, and also provides career opportunities and independent living skills. The Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing provides information, referral and advocacy to adults and children who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as their employers, relatives and friends. An online database of qualified sign language interpreters is available.

Provides job assessments, readiness, development, and placement, along with community-based work assessment, on-the-job training, Social Security benefits and follow-along services. Individuals are assisted through the entire job search process including constructing resumes, practicing interview skills, and applying for jobs

Provides employment training to people aged 21 to 50+ who are diagnosed with physical and/or intellectual disabilities.

A community-based program and a State-licensed adult training facility designed to provide opportunities for people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) to explore interests, develop skills, and participate in their communities in a supportive, inclusive environment. Uses a person-centered approach and helps program participants to develop daily living skills through communication, socialization, habilitation, and community integration. The program delivers Community Participation Supports (CPS), which offers opportunities for personal growth in integrated community settings. Also delivers adult training facility services, which provide an accessible environment with adaptive equipment, to support individuals with ambulation challenges. Participants have the ability to select their level of programming.

Helps individuals with disabilities meet their vocational needs by combining vocational assessment, placement in a paid position, on-the-job training, and long-term support. Workers earn competitive wages while working in a flexible, individualized, consumer-centered program, guided by a team that includes staff members from Private Industry Council (PIC) and the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR).

The Pennsylvania Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, or OVR, provides vocational rehabilitation services to help persons with disabilities prepare for, obtain, or maintain employment. OVR provides services to eligible individuals with disabilities, both directly and through a network of approved vendors. Services are provided on an individualized basis. The OVR counselor, during face-to-face interviews, assists customers in selecting their choice of vocational goals, services and service providers. An Individualized Plan for Employment (IPE) is developed, outlining a vocational objective, services, providers and responsibilities. Certain services are subject to a Financial Needs Test (FNT) and may require financial participation by the customer. Counseling and guidance, diagnostic services, assessments, information and referral, job development and placement, and personal services such as readers or sign language interpreters are provided at no cost to the individual. Also, by law OVR customers receiving

You will meet privately with professional staff to develop a plan that establishes your vocational goals and objectives for the year. You will work in a safe, comfortable, well supervised and supportive workplace modeled after the factory environments of area manufacturers. Within this setting, you will work on tasks such as: hand and machine assembly, heat sealing and shrink wrapping, drilling, gluing, sorting, packaging, labeling and occasional clerical jobs. You will also work with professional staff to develop your social skills so that you can work cooperatively with others while on the job and in future work settings. You will be paid for this work in keeping with the United States Department of Labor standards. This service is licensed by Pennsylvaniaâs Department of Public Welfare/Office of Developmental Programs.

Helping individuals with disabilities to achieve their full social, vocational and economic potential through sheltered workshop, community employment programs and various community work sites

Employs and trains indviduals with disabilites together with non-disabled workers to provide commercial facilities with customized cleaning to meet facility needs. All employees are professionally uniformed, trained, and supervised.

Provides sheltered employment for persons with disabilities. Vocational rehabilitation services includes evaluation, training, education, and placement. Ultimate goal is job placement. Evaluation for computer access, home modification, seating, and environmental control units available.

Offers food services to provide training and employment and prepare individuals for the competitive workplace. Takes food orders and more.