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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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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Supported Employment
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
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.

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Out of Home Respite Care
Vocational Rehabilitation
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
In Home Respite Care
Adult Day Programs
Provides support to 16-25 year olds struggling with a mental health diagnosis. Some of the clubhouse's opportunities include: - Skill building and resource development (for housing, education, employment, and social) - Provides support in returning to educational settings - Assists in experience building and application process for employment. On-the-job support is provided, as needed, with the supported employment program - Offers social opportunities in the clubhouse and in the community

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Job Development
Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Job Finding Assistance
Prevocational Training
Vocational Rehabilitation
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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Job Training Formats
Vocational Rehabilitation
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.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Veteran Membership Organizations
Veteran Employment Programs
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.

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

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Job Finding Assistance
Vocational Rehabilitation
Veteran Employment Programs
Prejob Guidance
Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Military Transition Assistance Programs
Participants choose a specific goal in one of the life domains (living, learning, working, social), this goal then becomes the cornerstone of his or her recovery-focused service. Participants take part in classes, individual practitioner meetings, and community exploration related to his/her recovery goal (a commitment of 5 hours per week). Class sizes are limited to allow for focused work among participants.

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

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Vocational Assessment
Aging and Disability Resource Centers
Vocational Rehabilitation
Brain Injury Assessment
Offers assistance to farmers, farm family members, and other agricultural workers with disabilities or long-term health conditions. Provides the resources and support needed to live independently and continue in production agriculture.

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Farm Safety Education
Evaluation for Assistive Technology
Vocational Rehabilitation
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.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
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

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Supported Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
Provides vocational rehabilitation services to help persons with disabilities prepare for, obtain, or maintain employment. Offers other services to eligible individuals with disabilities, both directly and through a network of approved vendors. Assigns a case manager or counselor to each client.

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Job Finding Assistance
Vocational Rehabilitation
Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
Job Training Formats
Works with families to understand and maximize the opportunities for supports through the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation and other private and publicly funded local career readiness programs. Additionally sets up volunteer opportunities with volunteer coaches for resume building. Private job finding and job coaching as well as providing those services through waiver programs once OVR supports have been exhausted.

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Job Finding Assistance
Vocational Rehabilitation
Career Development
Volunteer Opportunities
A vocational psychiatric rehabilitation program for adults with a mental illness. Services include: - Clubhouse work-ordered day - Pre-vocational activities - Job placement - Supportive employment - Job loss prevention

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Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Vocational Rehabilitation
Prevocational Training
Job Finding Assistance
Job Development
Provides assessment and care planning over a 6-month period. Community Health Workers can assist families in attendance to appointments, roadmaps to self-sufficiency, linkage with community resources, and support and understanding as they navigate their child's diagnosis.

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Youth Employment Programs
Baby Clothing
Home/Community Based Developmental Disabilities Programs
Vocational Rehabilitation
Supported Employment
School Clothing
Caregiver Training
Job Finding Assistance
Life Skills Education
Caregiver Consultation and Support
Job Development
Children's Clothing
Family Caregiver Subsidies
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Provides adult day programs and training, supportive employment services, children’s services-three approved private schools, medical rehabilitation, camp and respite programs, and residential and veterans’ services. The essential tools and resources provided enable individuals with disabilities to live their best life.

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Disability Awareness Programs
Autism Therapy
Health/Disability Related Counseling
Assistive Technology Information
Vocational Rehabilitation
Adult Day Programs
Residential Placement Services for People With Disabilities
Occupational Therapy
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Life Skills Education
Optometry
Out of Home Respite Care
Physical Therapy
Home/Community Based Developmental Disabilities Programs
Services are provided when there is a reasonable expectation that employment is a possible outcome of the services. "Employment" means not only competitive placement, but also in some instances, homemaking. Services may include: - Evaluation of medical, psychological, occupational, and educational abilities and limitations - Providing comprehensive medical, psychological, and allied services to minimize the disabling condition and enable the person to work - Assistance with setting vocational goals and making plans to attain them - Developing job skills through vocational and technical schools, universities, on-the-job training, or rehabilitation workshops - Independent living services - Placement in employment - Post-employment services - Adaptive equipment necessary for employment - Rehabilitation engineering services Disabilities served include, but are not limited to: - Alcoholism/Substance Abuse - Amputation - Epilepsy - Heart disease - Mental illness - Muscular disease - Developmental disabiliti
Provides services free of charge to residents in Lebanon County who are blind or vision impaired. Services include: - Orientation and Mobility Instruction - Recreational activities and support groups - Rehabilitation training - Vocational and employment opportunities for those who are blind and vision impaired throughout Lebanon County - Vision Voucher Program Also offers a Low-vision store and receive help in choosing aids and appliances to assist them with

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Orientation and Mobility Training
Vocational Rehabilitation
Eye Screening
Low Vision Aids
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.

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Vocational Assessment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Aging and Disability Resource Centers
Brain Injury Assessment
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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Job Training Formats
Vocational Rehabilitation
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.

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Supported Employment
Job Finding Assistance
Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Vocational Rehabilitation
Job Training Formats
The Vocational Services Department of BARC provides vocational assessment, training, work experience, habilitative supports, job placement, and retirement activities.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Provides outpatient psychiatric and crisis intervention services for children, adolescents, and adults.

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Family Counseling
Transitional Mental Health Services
Early Intervention for Mental Illness
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Counseling
Suicide Prevention Hotlines
Individual Counseling
General Crisis Intervention Hotlines
Marriage Counseling
Adult Residential Treatment Facilities
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Psychiatric Case Management
Older Adult/Disability Related Supportive Housing
Psychiatric Day Treatment
Vocational Rehabilitation
In Person Crisis Intervention
Parent Support Groups
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