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Pathstone - Training & Employment Services

Provides comprehensive training and employment services to assist eligible farmworkers to reach self-sufficiency through successful job placement.

What's Here

Job Retraining
Immigrant/Refugee Employment Programs
Vocational Assessment
Vocational Rehabilitation
English as a Second Language
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Immigrant Benefits Assistance
Prevocational Training
Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Career Development
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction

Brian's House - Employment Services

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.

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Home/Community Based Developmental Disabilities Programs
Supported Employment
Job Finding Assistance
Vocational Rehabilitation
Vocational Assessment
Prevocational Training

Access Services - Delaware Valley - Employment Services

Provides vocational assessment, career planning assistance, job training, and supported employment for adults with intellectual disabilities.

What's Here

Supported Employment
Prejob Guidance
Vocational Rehabilitation
Career Development
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Job Finding Assistance
Vocational Assessment

Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry - Reading Vocational Rehabilitation Services

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.

What's Here

Vocational Rehabilitation

Hedwig House - HOPE Academy

Provides classes, individual practitioner meetings, and community exploration related to meet a client's recovery goal (a commitment of 5 hours per week). Class sizes are limited to allow for focused work among participants.

What's Here

Peer Counseling
Mental Health Related Support Groups
Homebuyer/Home Purchase Counseling
Early Intervention for Mental Illness
Career Development
Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Supported Employment
Job Development
Life Skills Education
Vocational Rehabilitation

Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry - Allentown Vocational Rehabilitation Services

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.

What's Here

Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Vocational Rehabilitation
Interpreter/Translator Registries

Arc of Chester County - Comprehensive Employment Services (CES)

Provides services that help adults with disabilities find and keep the right job, as well as train companies to find, train and supervise people with disabilities.

What's Here

Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Supported Employment
Job Training Formats
Adults With Disabilities/Health Conditions
Job Finding Assistance
Vocational Rehabilitation

Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry - Erie Vocational Rehabilitation Services

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.

What's Here

Vocational Rehabilitation

VisAbility - Deaf-Blind Program

Trains students in personal adjustment to deaf-blindness, job readiness, and job coaching. Works with students and employers to assist students in attaining competitive employment.

What's Here

Supported Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation

Community Services Group - Vocational Programs for Mental Health Rehabilitation

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.

What's Here

Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Supported Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation

Living Unlimited - Supported Employment Services

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.

What's Here

Vocational Assessment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Aging and Disability Resource Centers
Brain Injury Assessment

Cambria County Association for the Blind and Handicapped - Vocational Rehabilitation

Enables individuals with disabilities, people who abuse drugs or alcohol, or people who have emotional problems to obtain the training and employment experiences they need to achieve economic self-sufficiency. Services may include vocational evaluation, work adjustment, work experience, training in marketable skills and placement in a competitive integrated employment facility.

What's Here

Vocational Rehabilitation

VisionCorps - VisionCorps Lancaster

Supports and promotes the interests of the blind and the prevention of blindness through a wide range of services, including: - Vocational Services - Rehabilitation and Social Services teach vision impaired persons and their family's techniques and use of adaptive equipment to promote independence - Glaucoma screenings, Kid Sight screenings - Vision Voucher Program - Referrals to local ophthalmologists for diagnosis and treatment, eye examinations and refractions for low income individuals without medical insurance - Assistance for the purchase of single lens eyeglasses for low-income individuals - Braille Transcription - Sight Loss Support Groups

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Eye Screening
Supported Employment
Braille Transcription
Library Services
Volunteer Opportunities
Orientation and Mobility Training
Visual Impairments
Eye Examinations
Eye Care Referrals
Glasses/Contact Lenses
Case/Care Management
Vocational Rehabilitation
Low Vision Aids

PA Office of Vocational Rehabilitation - PA Office of Vocational Rehabilitation- Blair Program - Vocational Testing

Services include 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.

What's Here

Vocational Rehabilitation

Via of the Lehigh Valley - Work Training Services Workshop

Provides hands-on vocational training, and helps individuals gain skills and confidence. Via offers a safe and productive environment where individuals work on a variety of projects, improve independence and enhance work skills.

What's Here

Vocational Rehabilitation
Disability Related Center Based Employment

PA Clubhouse Coalition - Work Ordered Day Program

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

What's Here

Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Prevocational Training
Job Development
Vocational Rehabilitation
Job Finding Assistance

Cambria County Behavioral Health, Intellectual Disabilities, and Early Intervention - Cambria County Intellectual Disabilities Program

Offers supportive services to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Services include early intervention for children, an adult training facility and day care, vocational rehabilitation, and respite care.

What's Here

In Home Respite Care
Out of Home Respite Care
Vocational Rehabilitation
Adult Day Programs
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays

Developmental Enterprises Corporation - Work Activities Center

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.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Job Training Formats

Developmental Enterprises Corporation - Work Activities Center

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.

What's Here

Vocational Rehabilitation
Job Training Formats

Student Veterans of America - Student Veterans of America

Student Veterans of America (SVA) provides military veterans with the resources, support, and advocacy necessary to succeed in higher education and following graduation.

What's Here

Vocational Rehabilitation
Veteran Employment Programs
Student Financial Aid
Prejob Guidance

PA CareerLink - Career Development Beaver County

The PA CareerLink is a one-stop job center that provides an array of employment and training services in a convenient, easily accessible location. Services include job counseling, testing and assessment; resume preparation assistance, interview training and other prejob guidance services; job matching and referral; unemployment insurance and job registration; labor market and career information; information on financial aid for education and training; and referral for job training, transportation, child care, personal and financial counseling, health care and other human services resources in the community.

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Displaced Worker Employment Programs
Job Finding Assistance
Job Retraining
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Immigrant/Refugee Employment Programs
Recreational/Leisure/Arts Instruction
Veteran Employment Programs
Vocational Rehabilitation
Career Development
Prejob Guidance
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Employment Transition Counseling
Youth Employment Programs
Senior Community Service Employment Programs

Allentown Rescue Mission - Transformation Program

Life skills program that focuses on the inner man that enables a man to be delivered from destructive behaviors to a productive member of society. Residential program that provides training in life skills, computer skills and employment readiness. Transitional program participants can join the Clean Team, a vocational rehabilitation program. Secondary services for clients include a weekly health clinic and outside job skills training.

What's Here

Vocational Rehabilitation
Transitional Housing/Shelter

Paralyzed Veterans of America - Operation PAVE

Provides Operation PAVE (Paving Access for Veterans Employment) which is a vocational rehabilitation program that supports America's paralyzed veterans in their search for good jobs and meaningful careers while helping employers strengthen their workforce.

What's Here

Vocational Rehabilitation
Veteran Employment Programs
Veteran Membership Organizations

Hedwig House - Psychiatric Rehabilitation Education Program

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

What's Here

Homebuyer/Home Purchase Counseling
Supported Employment
Peer Counseling
Life Skills Education
Job Development
Early Intervention for Mental Illness
Career Development
Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Vocational Rehabilitation
Mental Health Related Support Groups

Life'sWork of Western Pennsylvania - RECOVER

Provides supportive services to individuals with substance use disorders who are looking to enter or reenter the workforce. Offers job coaching, vocational assessment, and job search assistance.

What's Here

Vocational Rehabilitation