Employment Resources
- America's Service
Locator (exit DHFS)
- Locate a One-Stop Job Center by zip code or by city and state.
- Chamber of Commerce for
Persons with Disabilities, Inc. (exit DHFS)
- The mission of the Chamber is to help persons with disabilities
and their direct caregivers to form and grow businesses.
- DisabilityInfo.gov
- Employment (exit DHFS)
- This section of DisabilityInfo.gov covers a variety of topics
related to employment of people with disabilities.
- DisabilityWORK (exit DHFS)
- Service that brings employers and people with disabilities
together.
- Job Accommodation Network
(exit DHFS)
- A free consulting service designed to increase the employability
of people with disabilites.
- Pathways to Independence
- Pathways, with input from key stakeholders including consumers,
advocates and policy makers, identifies current systemic barriers
and designs creative pilots to address them. The goal is to
test innovative solutions to existing problems and incorporate them
into the overall consumer-driven, systems change movement in
Wisconsin.
- Supplemental Security Income
- Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a monthly cash benefit paid
by the federal Social Security Administration (SSA) and state
Department of Health and Family Services (DHFS) to people in
financial need who are 65 or older or people of any age who are
blind or disabled and residents of Wisconsin.
- Ticket
to Work Program (exit DHFS)
- Link to the Ticket to Work section of the Social Security
Administration website.
- Vocational Futures Planning
- Information about employment services available for participants
of long- term care services under the Medicaid home- and
community-based waivers. The programs included are the Community
Options Program Waiver (COP-W) and the Community Integration Program
II (CIP II).
- Wisconsin Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) (exit DHFS)
- DVR is a federal/state program designed to assist individuals with
disabilities to obtain, maintain, or improve employment. We
are Wisconsin's primary provider of employment services to people
with disabilities.
- Client Assistance
Program (CAP) (exit DHFS)
- CAP was established by Congress to provide
information about services for people with disabilities and to
provide assistance when a person is having difficulty receiving
services that are funded under the Rehabilitation Act.
Last Revised: April 01, 2008
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