Employment Agencies
Public agencies available in every state where vocational counselors provide employment services and support to job seekers with a disability. They are typically part of the state Workforce One-Stop Career system.
What is Vocational Rehabilitation?
The names of two Social Security Administration cash benefit programs available to qualifying individuals who have a disability.
What is Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI)?
A growing popular way to research information using software that is capable of performing tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, and problem-solving.
What is AI?
Any item, piece of equipment, software program, or product system that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of persons with disabilities.
What is Assistive Technology?
Through the US Department of Labor, each state offers a public workforce delivery system, which includes regional/local job centers providing a variety of services for job seekers.
What are American Job Centers?
A free, voluntary Social Security Administration program for disability beneficiaries ages 18 to 64. It connects you with free employment services from approved providers called Employment Networks.
What is Ticket to Work?
A collection of data, regarding the supply and demand of labor information. Common for career counselors to find employment rates, occupational wages, demographic shifts, and industry growth projections that help with career planning.
What is Labor Market Information?
A tax-advantaged savings and investment tool for people with disabilities. It allows eligible individuals to save money without jeopardizing their eligibility for some public benefits like Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income (SSI).
What is an ABLE (Achieving A Better Life Experience) Account?
A division with the US Department of Labor designated to address the employment needs for the disability community.
What is Office of Disability Employment Policy?
A free, federally grant-funded program that provides in-depth benefits counseling to SSDI and SSI beneficiaries with disabilities, available in every state. Certified planners help you understand how working and earning income will affect your benefits plus more.
What is Work Incentive Planning and Assistance?
A specific highly recommended tool used by career counselors to assess a good career fit by collecting information from the job seeker about their likes/dislikes, interests, and preferred work activities.
What is O*Net Inventory Profiler?
Your “go to” free, expert, and confidential guidance on workplace accommodations and technical assistance on Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
What is the Job Accommodation Network?