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Whatever your employment goals, The Arc Otsego's Community Employment Services offers a host of services and supports to get you working in the community and earning a paycheck. Our trained and experienced staff will work with you to determine your interests, find the best possible job/employer match and provide the support you need to be successful in your chosen job.
Specific services include:
Community Based Work Assessments
Supported Employment
Transition Services
Direct Placement Services
We also celebrate your vocational accomplishments and the contributions of area employers through a series of annual events and awards.
These VESID-funded assessments help to identify the work setting that will best meet your needs and maximize your employment success. You will have the opportunity to experience a variety of jobs and work environments while having your skills assessed in a non-paid work setting. This process helps you to determine your employments goals and preferences, identifies any barriers to successful employment and helps to identify supports that may be needed for success. Assessment sites are located throughout Otsego County and include:
Wal-Mart
Hannaford
Hess
MAMCO
Holiday Inn
Sodexo@ Suny-Oneonta
Best Western
AO Fox Memorial Hospital
Bassett Medical Center
Supported employment services help you find and maintain community employment. Starting with job development, we can assist you with completing applications, developing a resume, registering at the CDO Workforce, preparing for an interview and developing effective soft skills. Once you are working at a job site, a job coach will offer customized support. Additional support is available to help improve workplace behavior, work-related socialization skills, skills training, mobility training and employer and/or coworker training and support. As an individual using supported employment services you receive a customized job match, on and off site supports to help maintain a successful placement and advocacy. This service is VESID funded.
Employers also benefit from supported employment through pre-placement screening, on site support and long term follow up and possible access to financial incentives.
Download the Supported Employment brochure
Download the Supported Employment- Employer Services Brochure
The Arc Otsego contracts with schools to provide customized services to guide and support individual students through the transition from school to employment and independence. Using skill and interest assessments, job shadowing and career exploration, a Transition Specialist assists the student to begin the process of self exploration to identify preferences, interests, strengths, goals, barriers to employment and strategies to overcome those barriers. Services can begin as early as age 15 and continue until the students reaches 21. Students benefit from the individualized one-on-one services with a direct link to an established vocational service provider. Plus, since services can begin at age 15 and continue until age 21, delay in services after graduation is minimized.
Schools benefit from the additional resource to help meet the requirements of Indicator 13 and 14 and participating in IEP meetings.
Download the Transition Services brochure
Download the Transition Services flyer
Should you require short term support to re-enter the workforce due to the onset of an illness or as the result of an injury that compromises your ability to continue in your current or previous career, The Arc Otsego will provide individualized services that can include job development, resume and cover letter writing, interviewing techniques, soft skills counseling and assistance in performing an effective job search. You may also receive transitional job coaching to help you adjust to the work environment. You benefit from from working with an experienced job developer who has established partnerships with numerous businesses and is well known in the community.
 Supported Workers Picnic- every August
Holiday Party featuring the Supported Worker of The Year- every December
Above and Beyond Award- given throughout the year to local employers who make an extra effort to provide employment opportunities for people with disabilities
For more information contact:
Dayle LeFleur, Coordinator Community Employment Services
607-433-8442
lefleurd@arcotsego.org
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Silver Dollar Optical honored at OPWDD Works for Me
Price Chopper receives the Above and Beyond award from The Arc Otsego.
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