Employment Programs

CentrePoint Support Living – Supported Employment Program offers a wide variety of services tailored to meet the individual employment and community inclusion goals of adults with developmental disabilities, physical disabilities, and other cognitive impairments. Work programs focus on skill acquisition, job search, and retention. The focus of community participation is volunteer work and involvement in other valued aspects of community life.

Individual Employment Program:

The Individual Employment program provides support and training to adults with developmental disabilities or other disabilities to help them obtain and maintain employment in the competitive labor market.

Our services are designed to maximize the potential for success. Job Placement Assistance matches individuals with their employment goals. CentrePoint’s on-site job coaching ensures that outside employment requirements are met. CentrerPoint’s continued guided support structure provides both the potential employee and employer with satisfaction and ultimate success.

Job Coaching and Supported Employment:

Makes it possible for people with varying levels of disabilities to become active, wage-earning members of the workforce by generating positive employment opportunities and providing on-site and off-site support, so that they may be successful in the workplace. This assistance, whether intensive or transitional, may include a job coach who can help the individual choose, secure, and retain a job.

Job Coaching for people with disabilities and Supported Employment services can include:

• Clarification of career goals

• Assistance with completing job applications, interviews, and benefits packages

• Preparing a resume and helping to develop, obtain, and maintain a job

• Community transit travel training

• Job site training and advocacy

• Intensive training on specific work tasks

• Developing effective communication and proper workplace behavior/dress

• Acting as a liaison between work supervisors and co-workers

• On and off-site support available

Our support is flexible and can be provided for a few days or up to eighteen months, depending on individual needs. Ongoing support may be provided, as needed, ensuring that our clients feel secure and well-supported.