Job Support
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities, like other employees, sometimes need support to thrive on the job. Below you'll learn more about best practices for job support. We cover a range of key topics such as transition from school to work and using natural supports in the workplace.
SEEC’s Stay-At-Home Curriculum (Maryland)
Leveraging Natural Supports for Essential Workers During COVID-19 (Massachusetts)
Strategies for Remaining Employed or Returning to Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Utah)
Episode 1: Work-Based Learning in Tennessee
The Truth Comes From Us: Supporting Workers with Developmental Disabilities
Inclusion is a birthright and work is a human right. Every American has the right to work in their community without any kind of discrimination. People with disabilities can work and handle a job. We know what we are doing. We know how to speak up and speak out for ourselves.
Collaborating with a Community College and a Supported-Employment Agency to Facilitate the Transition From High School to Community Employment in Washington
Beginning in 2006, the Shoreline Public School District in King County, Washington partnered with Shoreline Community College to offer an off-campus transition program for young adults with intellectual disabilities and developmental disabilities (ID/DD) residing in the Shoreline School District.
Contracting with Industry for the Provision of Job Coaching Supports in Oklahoma
Contracts with Industry, implemented in the 1990s as the Natural Supports Initiative, is a program option that allows the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS) Developmental Disabilities Services Division (DDSD) to contract directly with businesses to provide job coaching supports that become a part of the natural workplace.
KFI: Making Mission-Driven Choices About Funding and Service Innovation
Katahdin Friends, Inc. (KFI), headquartered in the small rural community of Millinocket, Maine, has been a service provider in this community and surrounding regions for the last 54 years. After providing segregated services for its first 20 years, KFI became an early adopter of supported employment.