Employment Services Community Supports Supported Living Service Coordination Special Projects Life Coaching Employment Services Since 1978, Job Path has helped people with developmental disabilities find and excel in mainstream jobs. We have placed more than 2,000 people in positions such as porter maintenance, food service, clerical, stock, mailroom and child care. Job Path graduates work in banks, law firms and other prestigious organizations including: Saks Fifth Avenue, The Gap, JPMorgan Chase, UPS, Blockbuster Video, Restaurant Associates, Modell's Sporting Goods and Daffy's. Transitional Employment The Transitional Employment Team works with people who have the ability to move into the workplace with intensive but time-limited assistance lasting about 12 to 18 months. Each person starts with a five-week, on-the-job assessment, so that the team can identify their strengths, skills and needs. The person receives a stipend while trying out different job tasks. Following the assessment, we bring together the person and their family to discuss the results and create a job development plan. As part of the job development process the person learns how to complete job applications and prepare for interviews. Once a person is placed on a job, Job Path provides support and coaching to help them learn the required tasks and adjust to the workplace. Job Path follows up with everyone for at least one year after hire. Staff visit regularly, helping employees adapt and giving supervisors tips on how to encourage the employee's best work. After that time, some workers are self-sufficient. Yet even the most independent workers occasionally need assistance to meet increased responsibilities, to adjust to a changing work environment, or to seek a more advanced position elsewhere. While we work to involve co-workers and employers in providing support, Job Path steps in whenever needed by providing long-term support. Supported Employment/ Customized Employment The Customized Employment Team provides services for people who need long-term supports to enable them to work. Central to customized employment is the "discovery process," during which employment specialists spend time with individuals, their families and friends, and in their neighborhoods to get to know each person's strengths, abilities and needs. The information gleaned during the discovery process is used to develop an individualized vocational profile. The profile targets particular types of jobs and skills, along with specific employers that might prove a good match. Using a personalized marketing portfolio, we develop jobs by working closely with employers to customize a job that serves the employer's needs and takes into account the individual's strengths and needs as well. Job Path provides intensive job coaching as people learn their new jobs and continues assistance over the long-term to ensure job retention. Eligibility New York City residents 18 or older who have a documented developmental disability, such as mental retardation, epilepsy, autism, cerebral palsy, or a traumatic brain injury that was incurred before age 22, can receive employment services from Job Path. © 2008 JobPath, All rights reserved.   powered by metarhythm