Advance DD Care offers Vocational Habilitation to its clients in a non-residential setting. Vocational Habilitation is a service that provides learning and work experiences, including volunteer work, that help to develop skills that lead to integrated community employment in a job that matches the person’s interests, strengths, priorities, and abilities.
According to the department, Vocational Habilitation can help someone learn how to:
- take care of personal care needs in a workplace, things like hygiene, meals, and taking medication
- interact with customers, co-workers, and other people in the workplace
- speak up for themselves at work
- arrange and use transportation to get to and from work, and
- advance on the path to community employment
Vocational Habilitation services may be available based on an understanding of each person’s needs, discovered during an assessment then listed in their individual service plan.
Services are expected to occur over a defined period of time and specific outcomes to be achieved that are decided upon by the person accessing the service working with their team.
Vocational Habilitation services include activities such as ongoing support, information and referral to Career Planning services, disability benefits, and other appropriate services.
Ongoing support activities may include direct supervision, telephone and in-person monitoring, counseling, and other supports that help develop job skills, including:
- training to help the person maintain current skills, learn new work skills, attain self-determination goals, and improve social skills
- developing a plan of instruction and support, including task analyses to prepare the person for competitive integrated employment
- creating a plan to help the person transition to competitive integrated employment
- supporting and training the person to use Transportation services, public transportation or other community transportation resources
- offering training to build problem-solving skills and meet job expectations, and
- assisting the person with medication administration or with performing health-related activities while working
If you have further inquiries about our services, please send us a message or reach us using our given contact information.