Employ-Ability – EMPLOYMENT TRANSITION SUPPORT SERVICES

Helping Young Adults  with Intellectual Disabilities
Discover and Achieve
Their Potential for Independence and Quality of Life

You Want to Work…

You KNOW you will be a great employee for the right employer – BUT you have so many questions. You need some answers.
You know there will be challenges. BUT you need some help.
Really what you need is simply

Employ-Ability was created and is coordinated by Curt Byers. The program builds on Curt’s twelve years experience as a psychotherapist and behavior coach developing innovative strategies for helping his teen and young adults with IDs and ASD get jobs and keep them.

Employ-Ability combines those innovative strategies–some of which use smartphone apps and other information technology–with time-tested methods to create a program customized to each client’s unique mix of experience, interests, skills and challenges.

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Job Finding Services

Your Employ-Ability Coach/Advocate will help you identify the kind of job and employer that is a good fit in light of your interests, abilities, experience and disability-related challenges; and then find an employer like that near you that will agree to hire you with Employ-Ability’s support.

Workplace Readiness Training

Employers have different conduct standards than those of home or school.  You may benefit from learning some new “soft skills” to prepare you to meet employer conduct expectations. Your Employ-Ability Coach/Advocate may suggest a short delay in job hunting to work on these things if likely to help you become a better fit for a better job.  He or she will then continue to work with you through the process of finding and then becoming confident and competent in performing your new job.

Post-Hire Training Support

Your Employ-Ability Coach/Advocate  will be physically present in your workplace to support you through your first weeks of new hire training, whether several hours or several days each week.  He or she will also check in with both you and your supervisor by phone or email and then coach you through any challenges reported, by phone, via Skype, Messenger video conferencing, either on the job (in person) or after hours. Your Coach will also negotiate performance improvement strategies with your employer or supervisor for you, your supervisor or both to implement.