Supportive Employment

Supportive Employment – service provisions wherein people with disabilities including intellectual disabilities, mental health, and traumatic brain injury, among others, are assisted with obtaining and maintaining employment.

• providing individualized assistance in finding an appropriate job match;
• providing ongoing support services; and
• establishing extended services, sometimes called long-term supports, for the customer to maintain a long-term competitive integrated employment outcome by:
  • identifying resources to deliver the extended services;
  • training extended services providers;
  • confirming that extended services are in place, if needed, to make sure the job is stable