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About AES : Our Programs

Our innovative training and support strategies encourage and assist people towards gainful employment in integrated settings in the community. Our programs provide coordinated case management, vocational counseling, skill training, job restructuring, job placement and follow-up, to ensure people succeed.

Adult Employment Services offers three program models:


Group supportive employmentPathway to employment Independent supported employment

 

 

 

 


Group Supported Employment

Provides community based employment, with an onsite, skilled Vocational Trainer who supports a crew of 3-8 individuals performing their jobs in a local business. We encourage a wide range of practical and social skills sought after by employers. An individualized support plan will include details of a pathway to employment, tailored to promote employment opportunities that will best meet the needs of the person and lead to competitive employment.

Guiding Principles

  1. Serve adults in need of supported employment with individualized goals and objectives.
  2. Support people with disabilities in the least restrictive environment as possible.
  3. Determine services by consumer demands and resource availability.
  4. Emphasize the development of maximum independence for each supported worker based on individual needs.
  5. Respect the right of the supported worker to have a voice in his/her own training, the opportunity of choice and self-determination to the best of the agency’s ability.
  6. Support individual dignity and respect the rights of its supported workers, within the context of their unique skills and abilities, to have access to equal opportunities in community work settings.
  7. View supported workers as individuals and valued members of the community. Seek and utilize community and family cooperation in individual integration.
  8. Utilize tailored program to ensure services which match or suit individual worker needs.

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Pathway to Employment

The Working Age Adult Policy of Washington State states that all individuals must be on a Pathway to Employment by July 1, 2006. Pathway to employment provides individualized services to help the individual develop opportunities for contribution and paid employment, including movement toward a competitive job in the community. Some individuals may need more support and time than others. Individualized goals include community contribution, skill training, volunteerism, discovery, community based assessments, job search and paid employment.

Our purpose is to assist every Group Supported participants with a plan towards competitive employment.

Desired Outcomes:

  • Increasing rate of competitive employment of people with disabilities.
  • Increasing the numbers of employers who recruit and hire people with disabilities.
  • Improving the quality of life for people with disabilities.
  • Better wages for people with disabilities.
  • Services supports that prepare these individuals to enter and continue to succeed in competitive employment.

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Independent Supported Employment (ISE)

Independent Supported Employment is competitive employment opportunities by local business. The ISE Placement team assist the employer in understanding and providing the disability support needed for their employees success.

ISE Program Outline

  • Referral and Intake Meeting
  • Employment Planning
  • Job Development
  • Job Retention and Support Services
  • Interview Training
  • Skill Assessment

 

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