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· Habilitation: developing marketable skills through crafts, maintenance, and sub-contract work in order to learn appropriate vocational skills and attitudes.

· Personal awareness: focusing on personal care and appearance, socialization and communication skills, and community awareness.

· Practical Arts: training in meal planning and preparation, and home maintenance skills.

Within the Adult Training Program a more intensive Individualized Program, provides support, training and community integration to adults with disabilities who have autism, and due to behavioral needs require intensive individual supports.

The individual self directs the services and support that they want to receive based on their

The Real Life Choices program enables the individual to select supports that focus on enhancing daily living

The individual, staff, and caseworker develops a plan of support tailored to fit the individual enabling them to

The Real Life Choices program is a non-traditional program that is tailor made to suit the individual in

As part of our employment services, Pathways to Independence, Inc. provides Division of

Developmental Disabilities (DDD) consumers and Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services (DVRS)

consumers supports which help them develop pre-vocational and vocational skills. Consumers learn job skills in

a nurturing environment. Extended Employment Supports takes place at Pathways workshops.

Consumers receive work-related training, such as learning how to package and assemble products,

as well as job counseling and job referrals. Consumers also receive supported employment service to include

on-site job coaching; crew work, in which an individual works as part of a peer group; and arrangements in

The goal of the extended employment supports is to provide training to assist the consumers to enhance their

vocational skills thus building their self-esteem enabling them to seek volunteer and or community

At Pathways our services extend to DVRS consumers. Our goal is to enable individuals with disabilities to achieve employment outcomes consistent with their strengths, priorities, needs, abilities and capabilities.

Pre-Vocational Evaluation: Provides a comprehensive, individualize and systematic process in which an

individual, in partnership with a trained Pathways evaluator and DVRS counselor evaluates the consumers work

skills. Consumers learn to identify vocational options, consistent with their abilities, capabilities, preferences

and interest, to develop employment goals and objectives.

Work Adjustment Training: Provides a comprehensive, individualize service that assists consumers seeking

employment to develop or reestablish skills, attitudes, personal characteristics, work behavior and or functional

capacities, to achieve the identified integrated employment outcome.

Community Employment (SE): On going support services provided to an individual in a competitive

integrated environment.

Organizational Services (EE): Provides long-term employment services to consumers, who are presently

unable to work in a competitive employment setting. Individuals are frequently paid less then minimum wage

based on time studies identifying their ability.

The following supports are available to DDD consumers and DVRS consumers in obtaining/maintaining employment.

Pathways’ Pre-Placement program will assist you to choose, get and keep community based employment. Our

Employment Specialist will meet with you to identify your career goals, review your work history and develop

an employment plan that suits you best. We will also work with you and potential employers to make sure any

Once you accept an offer of employment, an Employment Specialist will help train you with specific job tasks

and skills you may need to do as your position requires. Our goal is for you to do a great job in your work and

to keep your job as long as possible. We want you to be a successful employee and that is what we are here for!

As you continue to work and become more confident and independent with your job, we will continue to

provide continuous vocational support as needed. Your Employment Specialist Coach will still be in contact

with you and your employer to make sure that things are going well with you and your job. If issues arise the