Independence Unlimited provides services to help people with disabilities achieve personal independence through employment. Pre-vocational support, paid work adjustment training, supported employment services, and sheltered employment are offered. Also at this site is Supported Employment, an intensive on-the-job training and support program. Services in Lee, Wise and Scott County and the City of Norton are provided in partnership with Planning District One Behavioral Health Services.

Workforce Service representatives are available to help with issues related to transitioning from a military career to civilian employment. Comprehensive career services can encompass help job referral, job training, and job placement assistance.

Provides short-term work experience for income-eligible persons aged 55 and older. The program helps seniors find permanent employment by upgrading old skills or learning new ones. SCSEP matches skills, background, and interests with job openings at businesses and agencies.

Provides vocational training, remunerative employment, education services, supported employment, and day support services to persons with disabilities.

The Senior Community Service Employment Program is a community service and work-based job training program for older Americans. The program provides training for low-income, unemployed seniors. Participants also have access to employment assistance through American Job Centers.

Virginia Works provides veterans, their spouses, and eligible others from all periods of military service with job referral, job training and job placement assistance through a statewide network of Virginia Works local offices. Most offices employ special Veterans Employment Representatives. The Fishersville Virginia Works Office serves veterans from Augusta, Highland, and Rockbridge counties and the cities of Staunton, Waynesboro, Lexington, and Buena Vista. All veterans are offered Priority of Service in Virginia Works local offices. Additional in-depth services may be provided those veterans who are disabled, homeless, recently separated from the military, previously incarcerated, aged 18-24, and/or economically disadvantaged. The Assistant Secretary of Labor for VETS has designated these specific groups of veterans to receive special assistance. ACCESSIBILITY: Fully accessible to persons with disabilities.

People with disabilities are empowered to achieve personal independence through employment at Four Seasons Greenhouse. Paid work adjustment training and sheltered employment are offered through this facility. Service in Wise County is provided in partnership with Planning District One Behavioral Health Services.

An Employment Service Organization to provide transitional, supported employment and vocational services to individuals with disabilities who could not otherwise find and maintain competitive employment on their own.

Provide a variety of services designed to help adults and young adults with autism develop the skills and confidence they need to reach their full potential. There is a Life Skills and Transitioning services for adolecents and adults transitioning to independent living this program includes a community support program for adults with ASD who are ready to live on their own with a little support and encouragement. Also offer a Career Readiness Program - provides on the job training at all while earning a paycheck. Coaches assist students in building a resume, applying, and interviewing for jobs.

Project SEARCH: Carilion Clinic is a one year program that provides education and on-site training to prepare youth with disabilities to be work ready upon graduation from high school. The program, which serves as a workforce alternative for students in their last year of high school, is located at a community health-care facility, Carilion Clinic. Students participating in Project SEARCH: Carilion Clinic report each day to the host business, learn employability skills in the classroom, and job skills while participating in three unpaid internships during the year. Students actively participate in defining their career goal and planning the necessary steps to achieve that goal. Students also have the added benefit of learning life skills, such as utilizing public transportation, to report to work sites. The ultimate goal, upon program completion, is to have the skills necessary to obtain competitive employment. Students are chosen for the program by a selection committee made up of individuals from the organizations involved in the Project SEARCH: Carilion Clinic collaboration including the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services (DARS) and local school systems. The Down Syndrome Association of Roanoke generously provided the funds to cover startup costs for the program.

Employment Programs for adults age 18 and who have any disability negatively affecting competitive employment. Services consist of pre-employment skills training, situational assessments, work adjustment, job skills training, job placement and on-the job training. Provides job opportunities in competitive integrated employment.

Provides sheltered employment for individuals with intellectual disabilities. Works closely with the Department of Rehabilitation Services. Employment opportunities include off-site contracts in janitorial services and lawn maintenance, and on-site contracts with recycling, sorting hardware, collating documents, and packaging meals for shipping.

Employment Network provider-- Can assist those who want to work and have been issued a Ticket to Work by Social Security.

SERVICES AVAILABLE: - General information about available SSA benefits and other public benefits - Comprehensive analysis of how work impacts SSA benefits and other public benefits - Verification of current federal, state and local benefits - Development of a Benefits Summary & Analysis and Work Incentive Plan - Information about valuable SSA work incentives that can maximize cash and healthcare benefits while working toward self-sufficiency - Advocacy for requests for reconsideration and appealing denied benefits claims - Tools to help track benefits changes while working and guidance with reporting earnings and other relevant life circumstances to SSA and other entities administering public benefits - Ongoing benefits counseling and work incentive follow-up support through all phases of the employment continuum - Education and training about benefits counseling and work incentive planning to beneficiaries and families

Chesterfield Employment Services (CES) provides assistance to persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities in securing and keeping employment in the community.

Employment and Day Support Services provides support to Loudoun residents with intellectual disabilities or serious mental illness. A variety of programs are offered, to include the Community Access Program (CAP), Psychosocial Rehabilitation and JobLink. Through the Job Link program, the Department of MHSADS helps people obtain and keep competitive employment positions in the community.

Provides assessment, planning referral, monitoring and advocacy to individuals with mental retardation, developmental delays and developmental disabilities. Offers respite care. Provides group homes with a supervised home-like environment. Offers limited financial assistance to families for other programs which will enhance the consumers ability to live in the community. Adult Development Day Program - opportunity to learn skills necessary for daily living as well as social interaction. Provides Case Management and transportation for clients and supported employment at The Attic thrift store. Early Intervention - home-based program for families with developmentally delayed infants and toddlers up to age three.

Supports people with disabilities to develop a career path and acquire and retain competitive employment. SJCS Employment Specialists provide each person job coaching and on-the-job training and support, while employers and co-workers are supported to work effectively with new employees.

Provides support to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to obtain and maintain competitive, integrated employment.

Goodwill’s Group Supported Employment program offers a high level of training, assistance and specialized supervision to individuals who require ongoing supervision but are able to work in an integrated employment setting. A group of participants (maximum of 8) with similar work interests work side-by-side with a Goodwill Employment Specialist, who provides assistance and guidance in completing job-related tasks and setting and achieving long-term goals.

Senior Community Services Employment Program (SCSEP). Provides skills through on-the-job training in such fields as office work, health care, food services and education. Also provides placement in part-time employment.

Provides veterans from all periods of military service with job referral, job training and job placement assistance, with an emphasis on those veterans who are disabled, minority, female, homeless, and/or culturally or economically disadvantaged. The Assistant Secretary of Labor for VETS has designated these specific groups of veterans to receive special assistance. Veterans may access these employment services through a statewide network of VEC Field Operations offices and the Veterans Services Staff (DVOP and LVER) who are assigned to most, but not all, of the VEC Workforce Centers across Virginia. The VEC assists between 13,000 and 15,000 veterans annually in securing unsubsidized employment, depending on the economy and employer demand. Unemployment benefits for those who have worked in Virginia and other states are available and may be applied for at this site. Benefit claims may also be filed on the Virginia Employment Commission web site at www.VaEmploy.com or by calling toll free 1-866-832-2363. For Veterans Services please call: Ronald Kotz (540) 581-4953

Hire Heroes USA empowers transitioning military, veterans, and military spouses to find employment in the civilian workplace. We provide job search support beginning with a professional resume, mock interviews, and other support services. We also connect clients to partners who supply needs that fall outside our mission and scope of service. All services are free to clients and are provided in a virtual environment through call, email, text, etc.

Cypress Enterprises provides vocational and day support services to citizens with intellectual disabilities.

Provide Day Support - day activities for individuals with severe disabilities who are approved through Medicaid waiver. Work adjustment training - to develop work habits; Organizational Employment employment - center based employment for individuals not capable of competitive employment. Supported Employment - provide job training, placement and follow along services to those who have achieved competitive employment to help maintain success in employment. Also provide Transportation services to a select ridership to and from our job campus. In addition to these services we also serve a large youth at risk population through work experience and mentoring. Other youth related programs include Reality Check and Project Search.