Strive to expand employment and training opportunities for individuals in the community, including those with disabilities or other barriers. Sales through the organization’s ten retail stores directly support its mission and help to divert millions of pounds of goods from area landfills. Business Services Division creates additional employment opportunities and provides a variety of services to area businesses and organizations, including janitorial, commercial laundry, lawn care and custom contracts.

Assigns a Service Navigator that will assist participants with job shadowing, career exploration, skills training, and job development and on-the-job training support. Each participant will have access to peer mentors that have successfully completed the program. Will provide additional supports and services to empower adults with disabilities to complete activities resulting in community employment.

Provides services for clients to find gainful employment or training. Specific services include: counseling and planning, personal and work adjustment training, vocational training, training supplies and books, financial aid to attend post-secondary classes, artificial limbs, braces, eyeglasses, hearing aids, psychotherapy, physical therapy, wheelchairs (if needed to work), occupational supplies, placement, small business development, and follow-up on the job. Also helps disabled students who are transitioning from school to work or college after high school. Some of the above services are provided by other agencies through a referral process.

C.O.R.E. provides time-limited training. The training involves assessment, support and supervised practice to strengthen at least 25 worker skills, attitudes, tolerances and capacities. A person can be in training as little as two days per week or as much as five. An assessment could be for two weeks, and supervised practice at the work center cannot exceed one year. Trainees are paid and benefits include workers compensation and Social Security retirement. Small parts assembly and hand packaging at the work center are piece rated jobs with no guaranteed minimum wage. Other jobs include training in office, passenger transport and delivery, maintenance, lawn care, and custodial services. Working at C.O.R.E. can affect SSI, SSDI, food stamps, housing subsidies, and medical cards. C.O.R.E. offers benefits planning so trainees can make informed decisions before they jeopardize entitlements. Trainees must provide their own transportation. There is no charge for training because it is funded through state and local tax dollars through the local Mental Health and Recovery Services Board.

Provides services for clients to find gainful employment or training. Specific services include: counseling and planning, personal and work adjustment training, vocational training, training supplies and books, financial aid to attend post-secondary classes, artificial limbs, braces, eyeglasses, hearing aids, psychotherapy, physical therapy, wheelchairs (if needed to work), occupational supplies, placement, small business development, and follow-up on the job. Also helps disabled students who are transitioning from school to work or college after high school. Some of the above services are provided by other agencies through a referral process.

Provides individuals with disabilities access to employment supports beginning in school, through the transition from high school to adulthood and for the rest of their lives. One of the primary responsibilities is to assist in the planning, coordinating and monitoring of employment-related supports to job-seekers with developmental disabilities in Perry County. This is done through person-centered support plans concerning employment outcomes, employment coordination and/or educational services, by linking and referring to the appropriate supports. The EN monitors employment supports to ensure successful outcomes. The EN also focuses on maintaining employer contacts in the community to develop ongoing resources for job-seekers, as well as helping to build the capacity of provider-partners.

Provide prescribing and monitoring of psychotropic medications by a Physician Assistant under the supervision of a Physician.

Offers vocational training and provides people with disabilities meaningful work experiences. These vocational experiences have traditionally taken place in the PerCo workshop; however the PerCo Board has extended services beyond the workshop to become more fully integrated with the Perry County community.

Provides assessment and training to help individuals with developmental disabilities meet their vocational goals. Service includes development of job-keeping behaviors such as attendance, punctuality productivity, work quality, on-task behavior, accepting authority, and work appropriate appearance. Job placement in the appropriate setting is the ultimate outcome of the program.

Strive to expand employment and training opportunities for individuals in the community, including those with disabilities or other barriers. Sales through the organization’s ten retail stores directly support its mission and help to divert millions of pounds of goods from area landfills. Business Services Division creates additional employment opportunities and provides a variety of services to area businesses and organizations, including janitorial, commercial laundry, lawn care and custom contracts.

Provides employment supports and opportunities for individuals with disabilities.

Counseling and psychiatric services for adults and transitional age youth. CPST available for adults. Individual, marital, family and group counseling.

Provides a way for older adults to find work, develop new skills and talents, and improve financial security.

Strive to expand employment and training opportunities for individuals in the community, including those with disabilities or other barriers. Sales through the organization’s ten retail stores directly support its mission and help to divert millions of pounds of goods from area landfills. Business Services Division creates additional employment opportunities and provides a variety of services to area businesses and organizations, including janitorial, commercial laundry, lawn care and custom contracts.

Offers a full-service dog-sitting program with day care, overnight boarding, and grooming available. Site is a work training program for adults with developmental disabilities. Provides canine CPR training to participants selected for this site.

Provides a vocational training program for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This program offers confidential document destruction.

Offers employment opportunities for persons with developmental disabilities through agency run enterprises. Offers a variety of employment, such as pet care, food service, vending machine service, and gardening.

Offers a job training and education program for eligible youth and young adults. Service includes housing, meals, health care and living stipends during the program, GED preparation, high school diploma programs, job training in more than 100 career areas, (includes health care, construction, hospitality, automotive and machine repair, and more). Training areas are aligned with industry certifications and are designed to meet currently workforce needs. After completing the program, graduates receive transition assistance that includes job leads, interview preparation and a cash bonus.

Provide prescribing and monitoring of psychotropic medications by a Physician Assistant under the supervision of a Physician.

Offers a training program in producing crafts and fine arts to persons who are handicapped, unemployed, underemployed. Crafts are sold in a boutique and participants receive 40% of the selling price. Individuals must be referred through a case worker, case manager, or pastor.

Provides services for clients to find gainful employment or training. Specific services include: counseling and planning, personal and work adjustment training, vocational training, training supplies and books, financial aid to attend post-secondary classes, artificial limbs, braces, eyeglasses, hearing aids, psychotherapy, physical therapy, wheelchairs (if needed to work), occupational supplies, placement, small business development, and follow-up on the job. Also helps disabled students who are transitioning from school to work or college after high school. Some of the above services are provided by other agencies through a referral process.

Job Corps is a no-cost education and career technical training program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor that helps young people improve the quality of their lives through career technical and academic training. The Dayton Job Corps Center supports the Job Corps program's mission of teaching eligible young people the skills they need to become employable and independent and placing them in meaningful jobs or further education.

Provides services for clients to find gainful employment or training. Specific services include: counseling and planning, personal and work adjustment training, vocational training, training supplies and books, financial aid to attend post-secondary classes, artificial limbs, braces, eyeglasses, hearing aids, psychotherapy, physical therapy, wheelchairs (if needed to work), occupational supplies, placement, small business development, and follow-up on the job. Also helps disabled students who are transitioning from school to work or college after high school. Some of the above services are provided by other agencies through a referral process.

provides vocational rehabilitational services in the form of paid contracted labor assignments, generally involving bulk mailing and material assembly. Clients are assigned to the workshop facilitiy or a third-party site, based on their needs and abilities. Individuals are assessed and make informed choices with the help of their support team. Choices may include: Integrated Competitive employment, Supported Paid work or Enrichment Services (Day Habilitation).