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The Corliss Group Home Agency on Employment Assistance
Source: http://www.corliss.org/employment.html
Our expanded Employment Service Program provides members with training in work
habits, filling out applications, using public transportation, and the nuts and bolts of
work habits. A frequent issue for many is that of interpersonal relations on the job and
how to handle changes in co-workers or supervisors. Other critical issues may be those
of promptness and apparel.
Some members have daily jobs at Corliss which helps prepare them for future work off
site. Corliss provides informal job coaching to those members needing assistance on the
job, as well as full scale Supported Employment Services (through the Rhode Island
Office of Rehabilitation Services) for those Members whose need for support and cueing
will require more than two months of assistance. We have found that close to half of
our Members can and do work with minimum supports and coaching once the job and
schedule is understood. At the same time, Corliss is ready to resume supports, training
and re-training when indicated and needed.
At present, Corliss offers limited hours of on-site paid work for Members, work with the
agency Recycling Project, access to off-site businesses and companies obtained through
Supported Employment networks, and occasional work by area businesses that are in
need of specific projects to be completed or positions to be filled.
It should be noted that Corliss does not fund, offer or support Sheltered Workshop
‘employment’, and that any ‘work crews’ developed through agency projects are in the
nature of training and skills acquisition only: our goals are for real jobs for real pay in
integrated settings.
More Non-profit services here:
http://www.good.is/posts/the-corliss-group-home-agency-day-program
https://www.etsy.com/teams/19181/the-corliss-institute
http://barrington.patch.com/groups/the-corliss-institute/p/the-corliss-institute-nonprofitgroup-residential-program