Employment Services

Kennedy Krieger Institute takes a multifaceted, person-centered approach to helping individuals with disabilities obtain and maintain meaningful employment and community engagement.

Employment services include a combination of job development, on-going job supports and follow-along services. We help individuals to obtain a meaningful job, and provide workplace supports to maintain employment. On-going employability skills training is incorporated into employment programming

CORE Foundations offers the following employment services:

• Job Development Services provide support to community members to obtain a meaningful job in a competitive integrated employment setting.
  • Job development activities include but are not limited to;
    • Resume Building
    • Interview Preparation and Support
    • Informational Interviews
    • Mock Interviews
    • Community Surveying
    • Application Completion and Follow-up
    • Social Skills
• Ongoing Job Supports provide community members support in learning and completing job tasks when beginning a new job, after a promotion, or following a significant change in duties or circumstances. We develop individualized supports in collaboration with the Person-Centered Planning Team to support successful employment
• Follow-along supports provide a faded support structure to ensure that community members have the support needed to maintain their job

Employment Curriculum

• Goals Setting
• Monitoring Self-Advocacy
• Transition and Change
• Health and Hygiene
• Technology
• Safety
• Job Satisfaction
• Coping Strategies
• Fitness Goals and Activities
• Work/Life Balance
• Financial literacy
• Voting and Jury Duty
• Building Relationships
• Healthy
• Communication
• Mindfulness
• Social Interaction/Soft Skills

View CORE Foundations Job Development Process

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