Workforce Development
A New York State Department of Education program that assists individuals with disabilities to achieve and maintain employment.
What is ACCES-VR?
The acronym "CRPA" stands for
Credentialed
Recovery
Peoples
Advocate
False!
Certified Recovery Peer Advocate
A document that does not cost, and only requires an ID or benefit card.
What is a social security card?
The person who should advocate and initiate change in their life.
Who is the Resident?
This tradesperson installs and repairs pipes that supply water and gas.
What is a Plumber?
Offers workforce development training programs throughout the State of New York designed with industry partners and experts in the field to aid students to get started in a new career. Theses areas include:
Health and Medical Programs
Spa and Salon Programs
Trades and Manufacturing Programs
Free ESL and GED Classes
What is BOCES (Erie1 and Orleans/Niagara in our service areas)?
A job and a career are the same thing.
False!
Job: A position of employment performed to earn money, often focusing on short-term needs. It may or may not align with personal interests or long-term goals.
Career: A long-term professional journey focused on growth, development, and fulfillment. It often aligns with personal aspirations, skills, and passions.
A document that is ever changing with new information such as a phone number, email, and experience.
What is a resume?
Caitynn's job title.
What is a Vocational Specialist.
This professional works with blueprints to build, repair, or install metal structures. This also involves melting and joining metals using heat and tools.
What is a Welder?
A program that offers free job-training for economically disadvantaged adults, providing the skills, experience, opportunities and a network of partners to help our neighbors obtain gainful employment and achieve financial self-sufficiency. The job-training includes earning various certifications to work in either a warehouse or as a professional chef.
What is FeedMoreWNY's RISE (Readying Individuals for Success and Employment) Program?
You need an ID, social security card, and proof of address to open up a bank account.
False!
You only need a valid ID. If the address is different on your ID than what you are putting on the paper work, then you would need proof of address.
These documents are needed in order to gain a coin and an "Employability Certificate" from a vocational team member.
What is an ID, SSC, birth certificate, and resume?
A person who you would send not only your pay stubs, but also a work/hiring letter.
Who is Suzanne Sisson?
This job involves working with natural gas lines, heating systems, and refrigeration units.
What is an HVAC technician?
A program that not only offers vocational/educational counseling, but also helps you with applying for financial aid, getting student loans out of default, and assists with analyzing past school credits.
What is Education 2 Recovery?
The vocational team hands out bus passes for any reason at any point in time.
False!
While we do hand out bus passes, there is an application that must be filled out a week in advance. Our bus passes are for vocational and educational things only!
Documentation needed for an I-9 form.
What are ID, Birth Certificate and/or Social Security Card?
These people are not able with the following:
- Housing
- DSS benefits
- Taxes
- Legal issues
Who are the vocational staff?
These skilled workers operate machines that cut, shape, and finish metal parts for use in manufacturing.
What is an Machinist?
A place where you can find all of the vocational/educational topics that the vocational staff talk about each week.
What is the www.cazenoviarecovery.org/yourfuture/?
You are not able to get your GED while in an in-patient treatment center (rehab.)
False!
The Salvation Army provides a GED course (among other certifications) that is completely online.
A way to get the fee waived when getting your Non-Drivers ID at the DMV.
What is proof of temporary assistance?
This person is someone you will meet with to finish your ACCES-VR application, after you submit the first form to a vocational staff member.
Who is Dr. Tom?
Specializing in working with fiber optics, this type of technician installs high-speed internet cables.