Provides job skills training and supported employment opportunities for individuals with intellectual disabilities.

Melwood Community Services offers a variety of programs designed to support people with disabilities with varying eligibility.

Hermitage Enterprises provide vocational and day support services to citizens with intellectual disabilities.

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.

Achieve’s adult day support program is a five day a week program for Medicaid Waiver Recipients. Our program is designed to be a fun, engaging, and safe environment where individuals can thrive and enjoy their time to the fullest. We offer a wide range of activities that cater to different interests and abilities, ensuring that everyone can participate and have a great time.

Offers a Developmental Day Support Program to individuals who need additional assistance in developing independence in the activities of daily living. The target population for the program will be those individuals with developmental disabilities who fall within the severe to profound range of Intellectual Disability. The following are areas in which a program participant may pursue independence: Self-Care/Adult Daily Living Skills Communication Socio-Emotional Development Cognitive/Educational Development Environmental Skills Recreational/Leisure Sensory Motor Development

Provides employment supports to a variety of customers in community based settings, including: people with mild to severe disabilities and people with economic challenges. Services include: supported employment, job development and placement, job coach training services, situational assessment, life skills training, and social security benefits management services. Supports a variety of customers in community based settings, including people with mild to severe disabilities, people with economic challenges, for example, TANF recipients, and people with medical concerns.

MVLE Employment Services provides full-time and part-time employment opportunities to individuals served, both onsite and in the community. The goal of this department is to develop career paths leading to more independent employment in the community. Services are offered at MVLE's Community Centers in Springfield and Chantilly, VA.

Didlake provides a broad range of Employment Services to ensure employment success for adults with disabilities. The goal is to match your passion and skills to the best employment opportunity. Didlake work together with the client and their support team to customize the Employment Services to develop a successful strategy for achieving your employment goals.

Achieve assists people with disabilities or disadvantages achieve greater independence and self-esteem through vocational training and employment.

Provides personal and/or economic growth for persons with disabilities through the provision of training, supports, community participation and employment options. Services include work adjustment training, extended employment, work readiness, day support, and supported employment. IDCs are located in Atkins, Wytheville and Hillsville, Virginia.

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.

Specializes in group and individual vocational evaluation, training and support to work at businesses in the local community. ECHO specializes in providing community-based group supported employment (GSE) which maximizes each participant's opportunities in accordance with their interests. Individuals work in small groups with on-site support at businesses in the local community. ECHO also offers Individualized Supported Employment (ISE), to assist participants to secure employment through coaching, individualized support and training.

The Supported Employment Individual model provides one-on-one services to help individuals with disabilities transition from job preparation to successful employment. Goodwill provides support with job matching and placement, training, and ongoing follow-along services to create mutual confidence between employees and employers. Services include job analysis and task analysis, job placement, public transportation planning and training, hands-on training facilitated by a Vocational Services Employment Specialist in a community business, and monitoring participants' home and work environments to ensure employment retention.

Supported Employment agency serving Lynchburg and surrounding counties. CARF accredited vendor for The Dept. of Rehabilitative Services and Dept. of Medical Asst.

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.

An adult day program for those needing intensive support, provides various opportunities for volunteering in the community, social development, activities of daily living and community integration through leisure interests.

Support Employment Program provides job development, job placement, individualized training, support and follow along services to individuals with disabilities which hinder their employability in competitive jobs in the community. Individuals have the option of individual job placement in the community or working in a jantorial enclave in the community if an position is available in the enclave.

Frontier Industries is dedicated to empowering people with developmental, emotional and/or physical disabilities offering vocational, employment, residential, developmental and community integration services to achieve personal independence. Supported Living offers needed supports for adults with developmental disabilities who choose to live in their own homes.

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.

Provides administrative support and oversight to vocational service providers approved as vendors to Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services. Also coordinate Special Programs administered by DARS, such as: Long Term Employment Support Services, Extended Employment services, Long Term Mentally Ill Services, Substance Abuse Services, and Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services. May provide limited transportation to clients when no other options are available. If there are any questions relative to transportation, please call.

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

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.

Provide Virginia Beach citizens with developmental disabilities with efficient, effective employment services that will enhance the quality of their lives and increase their opportunities to participate in all aspects of the community.

Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services provides assistance to individuals recovering from mental illness through case management, supported living, intensive community treatment, and a "clubhouse" program. For routine Intakes, individuals are encouraged to call the main telephone number and request an Intake and Assessment.