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Provides employment services to assist veterans in their search for work. Specially trained veteran employment representatives located in PA CareerLink offices provide veterans with a full range of employment services, including referral services, job development, referral to training, and referral to government and community veteran service agencies. These representatives help veterans match their job skills to employer job openings and contact employers on behalf of the veteran for consideration in hiring.

Provides medication-supported counseling and recovery programs to assist clients in meeting a specific personal goal.

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 medication-supported counseling and recovery programs to assist clients in meeting a specific personal goal.

Supports and promotes the interests of those who are low vision or blind and the prevention of blindness through a wide range of services, including:

• Rehabilitation Services to teach vision impaired persons and their family's techniques and use of adaptive equipment to promote independence
• Kid Sight screenings
• Vision Voucher Program
• Sight Loss Support Groups

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.

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.

Serves those with brain injuries and related neurological challenges. Assists individuals with maximizing independence in their home and community. Offers vocational rehabilitation and music therapy services.

Offers vocational education and training to individuals with autism.

The Work Ordered Day Program consists of six work units: Clerical, Food Service, Education, Administrative, and Transitional Employment. New members may choose to experience each unit during an orientation period in order to determine which area is of greatest interest to them. The Clerical Unit’s duties involve receptionist work, scheduling of appointments, outreach, and member intakes and orientation. Computers are available for training in word processing, database development, preparation of monthly newsletters, and research. Additional responsibilities include Database Management, Network Management, Internet Services, Web site Administration and Computer User Technical Support. Finally, this unit is also responsible for the ordering of supplies, photocopying and filing. The vanAmerigen Food Service Unit’s responsibilities include meal preparation, grocery shopping, menu planning, outreach, cashiering, bank deposits, financial procedures, and operation of food service equipment and maintenanc

Helps individuals to find a job, get job training, research careers, create a resume, and get vocational rehabilitation services. For veterans, specially trained veteran employment representatives provide veterans with a full range of employment services. Special emphasis is given to disabled veterans and veterans who are just leaving the military.

Provides a work activities center where individuals are trained by skilled professionals on a continual basis to comfortably handle a wide variety of contracts, and to cost-effectively provide business customers with a quality job that is delivered on time and on budget.

Provides vocational rehabilitation

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.

Offers a vocational program for individuals with disabilities including job readiness (resume preparation, interviewing, etc.), supported employment services for competitive employment, community based assessments, and transition from school to work services.

Provides a workforce development program for adults experiencing a variety of barriers to employment while providing cost effective outsourced labor solutions to customers, including packaging, assembly, kitting, shrink-wrapping, and mailing.

Offers vocational education and training to individuals with autism.

Provides employment training that includes a vocational assessment; supportive, competency-based pre-vocational, vocational, and psychosocial skills development; supervised workshop employment; and community-based supported employment. Based on the individual's needs, services may also include job development, job skill training, workshop or community job placement, and extensive work adjustment coaching.

Provides vocational assessment, training, work experience, habilitative supports, job placement, and retirement activities.

Serves those with brain injuries and related neurological challenges. Assists individuals with maximizing independence in their home and community. Offers vocational rehabilitation and music therapy services.

Offers medical or psychological evaluations, vocational testing and counseling, payment for medical items and procedures such as wheelchairs, prosthetic, orthotics, hearing aids, surgical procedures and physical, occupational and speech therapy.

Offers financial assistance for vocational training and equipment required for employment.

Provides information and referral services to individuals who are blind or vision impaired.

Supports individuals who are transitioning to competitive integrated employment through work that occurs in a location other than one of Lark's facilities.

Services include:

• Independent Living Services
• Specialized Services
• Vocational rehabilitation including counseling, guidance, pre-vocational training, job placement, and specialized blindness skills training
• Orientation and mobility instruction (white cane usage)
• Rehabilitation Teaching
• Business Enterprise program that trains persons who are blind to work in food service
• Transportation can be purchased by the agency for consumers when needed in conjunction with another service
• Public education programs