Local Employment Resources
Certified individual and agency providers and the County Boards of DD provide services such as supported employment, ongoing job support, job coaching, job developing and benefits planning. These services can assist an individual to work part-time or full-time in the community, either individually or as a group. For more information about services in your area, contact your local County Board of DD. Additionally, we have provided a list below of other agency providers who specialize much more in employment issues within the disability community than we do here at the DSAGC. Please feel free to explore their websites and contact them as well to gain more assistance.
Ohio Resources
Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled (LADD)
The Supported Employment Program assists people to choose, obtain and maintain employment in a variety of community settings.
Easter Seals Redwood
We’re committed to helping you remove barriers to get the job you want. Our programs and services have helped hundreds of individuals with disabilities – youth and adults – find meaningful employment. We’re here to empower you to grow and reach your full potential.
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Ken Anderson Alliance
Ken Anderson Alliance is a safe, collaborative community built on kindness and acceptance where individuals are given a diversity of choice that fosters independence and growth. Ken Anderson Alliance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation creating LIVE, WORK and ENGAGE opportunities for adults with disabilities. We believe that adults with disabilities have the human and civil right to live, work, engage, socialize, love, learn and worship in the settings and manner of their choosing, with the support of families and friends. Our work helps provide opportunities to volunteer for special needs, fundraising to help build housing for adults with disabilities and access to support for jobs for special needs adults.
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Ohio Valley Goodwill
Ohio Valley Goodwill offers comprehensive services to assist individuals with their goal for community employment from beginning stages of choosing the right vocational direction to finding the right employment opportunity and supports while in that job.
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Project SEARCH
The Project SEARCH High School Transition Program is a unique, business led, one year school-to-work program that takes place entirely at the workplace. Total workplace immersion facilitates a seamless combination of classroom instruction, career exploration, and hands-on training through worksite rotations.
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Achievement Center
The Achievement Center strives to assist individuals with developmental disabilities to become contributing members of their chosen communities. The mission is to give the type of personal attention and support that our clients need to help them "Be All They Can Be!"
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Buckner Employment Services
Buckner Employment Service & Training (BEST) is a corporation owned by Carol J. Buckner of Liberty Township, Ohio. BEST exists to offer the highest possible quality in Career Planning, Job Development, Job Coaching, Customized Employment, and employment supports to people with developmental or intellectual disabilities who reside in southwestern Ohio.
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Capabilities
Capabilities, LLC connects the dots between the person and their future. As Ohio’s largest private provider of career rehabilitation, we provide flexible, personalized rehabilitation services for people with disabilities. Started in 1997 by a former special education teacher and her husband, today a staff of over 160 employees work virtually and in over ten office locations to support people with disabilities on their journeys toward independence.
IKRON
IKRON (Integration of Knowledge and Resources for Occupational Needs) provides integrated quality behavioral health and employment services to the greater Cincinnati and Seattle Areas. Services available at IKRON include employment services, behavioral health services, youth services, support services, peer services, education, health home, and integrated care.
Kentucky Resources
NorthKey
NorthKey’s Adult Day Training (ADT) Centers provide vocational and daily living skills training to individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Each participant works with their service team to develop individualized personal, vocational, educational and community integration goals.
The Northern Kentucky Area Development District (NKADD) | Kentucky Career Center
Kentucky Career Center is Northern Kentucky’s largest and most diverse workforce resource for businesses and job seekers. The center connects job seekers to career opportunities and helps businesses meet their workforce needs.
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Redwood
Redwood's Employment Skills Training Center is a unique educational program. Students (adults or teens) participate in computer-based training to develop essential skills and work habits for entry-level employment, employment retention, or career advancement.
Vocational Day Training
Adults learn work and workplace skills through individualized training and completion of subcontract work from local businesses. Wages are based on productivity and Federal labor laws. Life skill training and adult enrichment programs increase knowledge, skills, and breadth of experience.
Community Employment Supports
Adults explore vocational interests with an employment specialist; develop an employment plan, and access training or services to develop work and workplace skills. Job development/placement services help adults find employment that matches their preferences and skill sets. With on-site coaching, adults learn the job and build supportive relationships with coworkers. Long-term support fosters job retention through supportive services provided on an intermittent basis.
New Perceptions
The Supported Employment program offers job placement and support to individuals with intellectual, developmental, physical, and mental health disabilities. In depth, one-on-one support from Employment Specialists enables participants to learn how to get a job, specific job skills, and techniques to cooperate with co-workers and supervisors to best succeed on the job.
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The Point Arc
Pre-Vocational Skills Training - The Point's Pre-Vocational Skills Training Program is a high school transition program, which uses innovative, interactive instruction to build the skills necessary to succeed in life and work.
The Zembrodt Education Center (ZEC) is an extension of The Point Arc. The center was created in order to offer even more support more children, teens, and adults with disabilities, families, and community members.
The center holds five core areas of support which hold classes and programs for children, teens, adults, and families. One of those areas of focus is:
