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Provides activities which helps to enable program participants to lead successful lives and connect to their community in meaningful ways. Utilizing both individual and small group settings, direct support professionals emphasize training activities that improve fine/gross motor coordination and promote independent care skills. Also offers the Work Activity Center. Program participants earn a paycheck while learning job skills and concepts. Through hands-on instruction, participants carry out contract work for area private companies.

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Home/Community Based Developmental Disabilities Programs
Adult Day Programs
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Provides services utilizing a wide assortment of activities and opportunities to promote functional skill development. Services are center and community based. Supports are individualized and self-determined by each adult.

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Adult Day Programs
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Provide vocational assessment, job development, job training, job placement, specialized job situations and/or other support services that help people with intellectual disabilities prepare for, find and retain paid employment.

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Job Development
Prejob Guidance
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Coordinates with various agencies and clients to identify and address specific support needs for individuals with disabilities. After evaluating each person's vocational goals, DEC assesses the individual's existing abilities and matches his or her interests and skill set to a relevant work environment. Placement in our Employment Services Program offers hands-on experience in the workplace with support along the way.

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Supported Employment
Disability Related Center Based Employment
A vocational training program serving individuals with developmental and/or acquired disabilities. Focused on facility based job opportunities. On a daily basis, program employees receive individualized training designed to improve vocational skills by performing vital job tasks procured from businesses within the community.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Disability Related Center Based Employment
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.

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Disability Related Center Based Employment
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Provide vocational assessment, job development, job training, job placement, specialized job situations and/or other support services that help people with intellectual disabilities prepare for, find and retain paid employment.

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Job Development
Prejob Guidance
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Provides assessment, experience training, extended employment, job placement services, mobile work crews, supportive employment, intensified and specialized developmental training program for adults with severe and profound developmental disabilities.

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Disability Related Center Based Employment
Offers residential programs, community-supported living programs, an adult day program, in-home services, supported employment training, and transportation to work sites.

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Older Adult/Disability Related Supportive Housing
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Home/Community Based Developmental Disabilities Programs
Adult Day Programs
Programs include vocational training, job finding and support, enhancing skills for daily living, volunteerism, and activities. Job coaches guide and assist until each person can perform their job duties and becomes familiar with the culture of their employer. Once employed, follow-up services are provided to ensure the job experience is successful for the person and the employer.

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Disability Related Center Based Employment
Supported Employment
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
ACT NOW assists people with mental illnesses who want to find a job. The program provides a 3-week training course followed by a 12-week internship designed to lead to full-time employment. Programs available include: A) Information and instruction on how to search for a job B) Writing a resume C) Taking and giving directions D) Make decisions E) Communicating appropriately F) Listening effectively G Preparing for an internship

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Prejob Guidance
Vocational Rehabilitation
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Assists consumers in finding jobs that fit their interests and needs. Provides on-the-job training while helping make necessary accommodations for each individual. Partners with local school districts to teach job skills and employment-related social skills to help students transition from school to work.

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Disability Related Center Based Employment
Home/Community Based Developmental Disabilities Programs
Supported Employment
Job Development
Provides vocational assessment, career planning assistance, job training, and supported employment for adults with intellectual disabilities.

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Prejob Guidance
Career Development
Supported Employment
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Vocational Assessment
Job Finding Assistance
Coordinates with various agencies and clients to identify and address specific support needs for individuals with disabilities. After evaluating each person's vocational goals, DEC assesses the individual's existing abilities and matches his or her interests and skill set to a relevant work environment. Placement in our Employment Services Program offers hands-on experience in the workplace with support along the way.

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Supported Employment
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Provides opportunities for individuals with disabilities to learn and practice work skills in a competitive integrated employment facility. Participants may be involved in the program on a transitional or ongoing basis, and are paid for their work. The nature of the work and the types of disabilities represented in the workforce vary widely by program.

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Disability Related Center Based Employment
Thrift shop that carries an array of products. Includes: Clothing Accessories Housewares Electronics Furniture

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Disability Related Center Based Employment
Thrift Shops
Provides life skills training, on-the-job skills training, mentoring, and employment for adults with disabilities. Specializes in assembly, packaging, re-packs, apparel sales, apparel detailing, and commercial sewing.

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Disability Related Center Based Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Employs legally blind adults in positions of competitive employment

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Disability Related Center Based Employment
Provides vocational programs for adults whose mental illness has impeded their emotional, social, economic and vocational development. Programs aid individuals in searching for jobs, refining interviewing skills and transitioning into a new job. They focus on working with each person in the setting most comfortable for the individual. The Commerce Park Clubhouse offers a variety of employment opportunities such as Transitional Employment Positions (TEP), Supported Employment and also provides in-house support for those in Independent Employment. TEPâs and Supported Employment also receive Job Coaching, funded through OVR. Commerce Park Clubhouse has a wide variety of opportunities for members to get involved in everything from cooking to how to use a computer throughout the work day. The Tower Cafe is a vocational training restaurant operated by Community Services Group.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Supported Employment
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Provide vocational assessment, job development, job training, job placement, specialized job situations and/or other support services that help people with intellectual disabilities prepare for, find and retain paid employment.

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Job Development
Prejob Guidance
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Offers services to help individuals with a mental health diagnosis rebuild their lives and regain skills related to employment, education, companionship, connections to their community, and self-respect. Some holiday, evening, and weekend services are available.

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Job Development
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Employment Transition Counseling
Transitional Mental Health Services
Adult Day Programs
Supported Employment
Assists Pennsylvanians with disabilities in gaining the skills necessary to live and work independently in their communities. OVR services include: diagnostic services, vocational evaluation, vocational counseling, job training, medical services and assistive technology equipment to help clients pursue and achieve employment, and job placement assistance.

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Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
Supported Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Provides job readiness, career assessments, and customized employment for those who want to work and be financially independent.

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Disability Related Center Based Employment
Assists youth and adults with disabilities to prepare for, secure, and maintain or advance in employment in the local community to support their financial self-sufficiency. As part of their service delivery, they provide benefits counseling support to those individuals who receive SSI and/or SSDI to understand work's impact on their cash benefit and healthcare.

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Disability Related Center Based Employment
Serves as a community-supported agricultural (CSA) program for individuals with disabilities. Provides employment opportunities for adults who wish to work in an alternative context. Links the trainee farmer to the community in a real-world business relationship, and supplies the community with organically grown food options.

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Disability Related Center Based Employment