Helps individuals with disabilities interested in obtaining employment explore their interests, talents, competencies, and support needs. An employment specialist assesses their skills and identifies and builds additional employment skills. Assessments: An employment specialist works with the individual and their support team to determine what job will be the best match for the person and their skills. Job Development and Placement: For individuals who are certain about the work they want to pursue, our employment specialist will engage in marketing and recruitment activities to approach employers on behalf of the individual looking for employment. The goal is the job seeker gaining integrated employment in a position that matches with his/her skills and interests. Training and Retention: Assistance is provided to help participants maintain employment. The length of time needed will vary depending on the individual’s support needs and funding options. The new employee is supported to learn and accomplish the tasks of the job; communicate with co-workers; and become part of the fabric of that employer’s workforce.

Designed to help individuals gain the skills and abilities they need to get and keep "family wage" jobs. Services are free and customized to meet individual needs. Individuals work one-on-one with their employment representatives to meet their employment goals. Services available include: skills training, paid work experience and vocational education, help with resumes and cover letters, workshops on interviewing, job searching, demand occupations, GED preparation and testing, career counseling, guidance and employment referrals, and referral to community resources.

Provides employment opportunities to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.   Assisting clients seeking employment and community based activities. Also includes Group Home and Supported Living residential supports.

Provides assessments, on-the-job training, job development and ongoing long-term support for adults with disabilities. Support individuals through the entire employment process. Services include: - Community based assessments - Trial work assessments - Job placement services - Retentions and intensive trainings

Helps find and keep a job by providing ongoing training and support, such as advocacy, for individuals with disabilities. Support is provided at place of employment or in other settings, as needed. Services include: -  Job assessments -  Job training -  Job placement -  Job retention

Artisans is a non-profit agency providing services necessary for individual job development, employment support, and employment opportunities in the community for persons with disabilities.

The Easterseals Washington Workforce Development program helps adults achieve and maintain gainful, competitively paid, employment in their communities.   Participants in the program are paired with an employment consultant, if needed, to learn new skills or to supplement the employers training.   Easterseals Washington Workforce Development also works with people referred by the Division or Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) to help find competitively paid employment in the community.     For persons who are 62 years of age or older a Community Inclusion Program (CI) helps customers create and maintain relationships made in their communities.    

Helps people who receive disability benefits return to work or work for the first time. Beneficiaries receive a ticket which they may use to obtain services and jobs from state vocational rehabilitation agencies or organizations that have been designated as Employment Networks by the program.   Once a beneficiary assigns his or her ticket to an Employment Network or vocational rehabilitation agency, the agency coordinates and provide appropriate services to help the beneficiary find and maintain employment such as -  Employment services -  Vocational rehabilitation services or   -  Other support services necessary to achieve a vocational (work) goal   Participants will continue to receive benefits until they begin earning wages or self-employment income above the applicable earnings limit for the Supplemental Security Income or Social Security Disability Insurance program. They will continue to receive health care coverage even after they are no longer eligible for financial benefits.   Social Security cannot perform a medical "Continuing Disability Review" to determine whether participants continue to have a disability while they are participating in the Ticket Program, including receiving services from the State Vocational Rehabilitation agency, and progressing towards their employment goals.   Those who have their benefits stop due to earnings and then can no longer work due to disability can request to have their benefits start again without having to complete a new application using a work incentive called Expedited Reinstatement. Participants will be eligible for Expedited Reinstatement for up to five years after they stop receiving benefits.   The program is voluntary, and there is no penalty for not participating.

Tessera Community Employment Services works with local businesses to create job opportunities for customers with disabilities and helps them obtain/maintain employment or participate more fully in their local community. Services are offered in Jefferson, Kitsap, Clallam and Spokane counties.

Peninsula Services is a non-profit United Way funded agency that works to train and find employment for persons with disabilities.  Most participants are referred to our services by other organizations such as DVR, DDD or DSHS and most recently DSB, and there are no fees charged to the individual. Offers an array of comprehensive rehabilitative and supportive programs that are based on the belief that persons with disabilities grow and develop as do all persons; that persons with disabilities can work and want to work; and they should be provided with support that accentuates the individual's talents, choice, respect and dignity in pursuing life options. Training opportunities include All Shred document destruction with mobile shredding truck that can pick up throughout the county, Grounds Maintenance at sites throughout Naval Base Kitsap, and the agency-run Servmart Supply Stores in Bremerton and Oak Harbor, and training at other community sites as well.

Provides assessments, on-the-job training, job development and ongoing long-term support for adults with disabilities. Support individuals through the entire employment process. Services include: - Community based assessments - Trial work assessments - Job placement services - Retentions and intensive trainings

Provides job readiness skills including resume preparation, job search assistance, job interview help and on the job coaching to assist in job retention.

Helps adults with disabilities to create and maintain relationships in their communities through volunteer work, community groups, and other opportunities to be in integrated settings.

Helps Medicaid recipients, who are 16 and older, find and maintain employment. Focuses on those with mental health or substance use disorders. Also provides supportive housing services.

Finds and maintains community based jobs for people with barriers to employment. Contracts with DSHS to provide services for people with disabilities.

Provides a no-cost, easy enrollment, job search center where anyone from the community can get help with job seeking and building computer skills. Job seekers can work with staff to build resumes, cover letters, find job leads, practice interviewing preparation, and more. Computer classes are offered on a weekly basis on topics for first time computer users, to classes for developing skills for working in office environments, also available in 1 on 1 appointments. Services are completely free, thanks to donations and purchases at Goodwill retail stores.

Assists disabled individuals with direct placement, employment support, job coaching, on-the-job evaluation, and employability skills training.

These classes equip youth with essential skills for exiting street life. Classes are taught by experts in the community who are trained in money management, housing, physical health, substance abuse and employment.

Provides a personnel service that matches qualified workers who have developmental disabilities with the labor needs of businesses large and small. Career Consultants with Goodwill assist in the placement, training and supervision of employees at no cost to the employer. Goal of the program is to ensure the inclusion of persons with disabilities and to assist them in overcoming barriers to employment so that they can obtain competitive wage jobs.

Matches people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDDs) to jobs in the community that fit their needs and abilities. Includes a skill and interest assessment, resume development, interview preparation, job placement and coaching, career development, and employer support.

Finds and maintains community based jobs for people with barriers to employment. Contracts with DSHS to provide services for people with disabilities.

Provides funding and administration services for supported employment services for Clallam County residents with developmental disabilities.

Helps individuals with disabilities interested in obtaining employment explore their interests, talents, competencies, and support needs. An employment specialist assesses their skills and identifies and builds additional employment skills. Assessments: An employment specialist works with the individual and their support team to determine what job will be the best match for the person and their skills. Job Development and Placement: For individuals who are certain about the work they want to pursue, our employment specialist will engage in marketing and recruitment activities to approach employers on behalf of the individual looking for employment. The goal is the job seeker gaining integrated employment in a position that matches with his/her skills and interests. Training and Retention: Assistance is provided to help participants maintain employment. The length of time needed will vary depending on the individual’s support needs and funding options. The new employee is supported to learn and accomplish the tasks of the job; communicate with co-workers; and become part of the fabric of that employer’s workforce.

Finds and maintains community based jobs for people with barriers to employment. Contracts with DSHS to provide services for people with disabilities.

Focuses on employing individuals with developmental disabilities with community businesses.   Helps locate an appropriate job with a specific employer for each client.   Provides one-on-one, on-site job coaching and follow-up services to ensure job retention and wage progression.   All individuals served receive case management, including individualized person-centered planning and behavior intervention.   Services are provided based on individual choice and support needs.   Employment sites are located throughout King County.   Offers adaptive technology and accommodations for employment.