Goodwill
Industries of the Valleys offers a full-range of programs and services.
Our operation fosters individual vocational development, maximizes individual
vocational potentials, allows training and employment choices, assures
individual rights, instills work ethic, and promotes self-esteem and
independence.
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Situational
Assessment is a comprehensive process
that utilizes either real or simulated work as the focal point for
individual vocational assessment and exploration.
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Work
Adjustment Training/Employee Development is
a comprehensive, individualized service designed to assist persons seeking
employment to develop or reestablish skills, attitudes, personal
characteristics, work behaviors, and functional capacities in order to
achieve positive employment outcomes.
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Work
Services/Organizational Employment Services are
designed to provide paid work to persons served in locations owned, managed,
rented, or leased by Goodwill Industries of the Valleys. Services are
flexible and may include work in either center-based operations or
enclave/offsite work crews based in community settings.
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Specialized
Day Services provide training in
independent living skills and community integration. Persons involved
in these programs require intensive, on-going support and specialized
training in day-to-day activities.
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Supported
Employment provides competitive work
in an integrated community setting, with on-going support services for individuals
with disabilities.
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School to
Work Services and Youth in
Transition Summer Program provide students opportunities to develop
employment related work skills and essential work habits needed for success
in all levels of employment.
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Transportation
Services are offered to and from home
and employment sites.
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Placement
Services provide job leads and job
seeking assistance for individuals who are determined to be job ready.
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TANF
Welfare-to-Work Service provides
training to TANF recipients with disabilities in identifying and resolving
barriers to employment and developing and attaining the skills necessary to
be employed and remain employed.
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Census/Welfare-to-Work
Service offers career development
services to prepare, assist, and support individuals who are considered hard
to employ, as identified through Departments of Social Services, to achieve
self-sufficiency through employment.
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Employer
Services include providing a resource
for employers to access potential employees, providing a new hire with an
on-the-job trainer, providing consultant services for ADA, providing
enclaves with a working supervisor (group model), and providing outsourcing
and production services (see Industrial
Operations).
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In-take and
Referral Services are offered to the
Department of Rehabilitative Services, Community Services, Department of the
Visually Handicapped, Departments of Social Services, and school districts. |