Employment
Seeking employment as a young adult with special needs can present some unique challenges, such as training and job matching based on an individual's abilities. The Center for Infants and Children with Special Needs at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center puts patients and families in touch with special resources designed to help conquer these challenges:
- Great Oaks
- Job Accommodation Network
- MR/DD offers a Job Development program. Discuss a referral to this program with your Family Support Coordinator
- The Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati offers the Work Incentives Resource Center for people with disabilities in Brown, Butler, Clinton, Clermont, Hamilton, Highland and Warren Counties. The Center educates individuals about work incentives that helps workers with disabilities maintain financial stability and medical coverage while transitioning into the workforce.
- New Perceptions provides job placement and long-term training / coaching with community employers for individuals with developmental disabilities and mental retardation who reside in Northern Kentucky.
- Ohio Rehabilitation Services Commission (RSC)
- Ohio Valley Goodwill Industries is a comprehensive employment and training center providing work training, job placement and follow-along services. Goodwill also offers transition planning assistance, vocational assessment, social / recreational alternatives to full-time work, personal care assistance, assistive technology and nursing support.
- Project SEARCH
- Redwood Rehabilitation Center provides vocational programs and life experiences to children and adults with disabilities.
- Visionaries & Voices: a community minded studio for artists with disabilities is a studio / gallery created specifically for artists with disabilities to grow both personally and professionally.
Other Helpful Sites
- Equal Opportunity Publications, Inc. publishes career magazines for women, members of minority groups, and people with disabilities.
- Job Access enables people with disabilities to enhance their professional lives by providing a dedicated system for finding employment.
- NISH is a national nonprofit agency that helps provide technical assistance to Community Rehabilitation Programs (CRPs) interested in obtaining federal contracts under the Javits-Wagner-O'Day (JWOD) Program.
For additional information, visit the Education and Transitions sections of the Resource Directory.
If your questions are not fully answered by our Special Needs Resource Directory and its links, please contact us via email.
Rev. 11/07
