Vocational Rehabilitation Services
A. Job Coaching
Central Pennsylvania Supportive Services (CPSS) will provide Job Coaching using both Supported Employment, as well as Supportive Employment techniques, whereby the customer is trained in a community employment setting. CPSS provides skill evaluation, direct or supportive job development, intensive one-to-one job coaching. Time-limited or in some cases, longer-term follow-along services maybe required.
B. Community Based Work Assessment (CBWA)
CPSS makes arrangements for tryouts at 3 or 4 jobsite situations performing different jobs or with different employers. The CBWA experience will aid in determining employability of the consumer who may never have worked in a competitive employment environment or was never successful when it was tried in the past. CBWA provides an opportunity to learn work-related information about the consumer both strengths and weaknesses.
Job shadowing may be an appropriate step towards gaining skills necessary for an individual to work competitively. In such cases, the participant would attend several places of employment. The purpose would be to observe the work in process, to perform informational interviews and to gain general work related knowledge. The expected outcome would be that the experience would serve as a tool for determining a career path.
The job shadowing process can include volunteer positions, visits to actual work sites, temporary paid positions and visits to colleges or trade schools. Opportunities available, the interest of the individual and the particular career/service goals of the individual determine the approach used in job shadowing.
C. Extended Services
CPSS will train both direct job skills, as well as more indirect job-related skills. Some of the individuals we serve will learn their job skills quickly, but may still lose that job due to inappropriate behaviors, poor social skills, and other outside factors. These outside factors may be issues that can be changed. Independent Living Skills or Activities for Daily Living are additional supportive services that may be available through county Mental Health and Mental Retardation Programs. The casemanager, customer and CPSS staff will work together to establish a service plan designed specifically to address the needs of the individual.
Extended job coaching services are available to individuals who qualify. The purpose is to provide training and supports necessary to improve job performance, to learn appropriate work behaviors, and to resolve other work related issues. The expected outcomes would be that the customer would learn the skill necessary to work successfully in a competitive employment environment.
A. Job Coaching
Central Pennsylvania Supportive Services (CPSS) will provide Job Coaching using both Supported Employment, as well as Supportive Employment techniques, whereby the customer is trained in a community employment setting. CPSS provides skill evaluation, direct or supportive job development, intensive one-to-one job coaching. Time-limited or in some cases, longer-term follow-along services maybe required.
B. Community Based Work Assessment (CBWA)
CPSS makes arrangements for tryouts at 3 or 4 jobsite situations performing different jobs or with different employers. The CBWA experience will aid in determining employability of the consumer who may never have worked in a competitive employment environment or was never successful when it was tried in the past. CBWA provides an opportunity to learn work-related information about the consumer both strengths and weaknesses.
Job shadowing may be an appropriate step towards gaining skills necessary for an individual to work competitively. In such cases, the participant would attend several places of employment. The purpose would be to observe the work in process, to perform informational interviews and to gain general work related knowledge. The expected outcome would be that the experience would serve as a tool for determining a career path.
The job shadowing process can include volunteer positions, visits to actual work sites, temporary paid positions and visits to colleges or trade schools. Opportunities available, the interest of the individual and the particular career/service goals of the individual determine the approach used in job shadowing.
C. Extended Services
CPSS will train both direct job skills, as well as more indirect job-related skills. Some of the individuals we serve will learn their job skills quickly, but may still lose that job due to inappropriate behaviors, poor social skills, and other outside factors. These outside factors may be issues that can be changed. Independent Living Skills or Activities for Daily Living are additional supportive services that may be available through county Mental Health and Mental Retardation Programs. The casemanager, customer and CPSS staff will work together to establish a service plan designed specifically to address the needs of the individual.
Extended job coaching services are available to individuals who qualify. The purpose is to provide training and supports necessary to improve job performance, to learn appropriate work behaviors, and to resolve other work related issues. The expected outcomes would be that the customer would learn the skill necessary to work successfully in a competitive employment environment.