Providing one-on-one support to facilitate a competitive community integrated employment work setting, to promote the greatest degree of integration and independence possible for the employed individual. Supported Employment services are the ongoing support to individuals and their employers who, because of their disabilities, need intensive on-going support to maintain a job that meets personal and career goals.

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Services are intended to develop and expand skills including but not limited to:

• On-the-job training in work and work-related skills, i.e., job coaching to facilitate the acquisition, and ongoing performance, of the essential functions of the job and the facilitation of natural supports

• Ongoing retention, supervision, and monitoring of the individual's performance, i.e., evaluating self-maintenance strategies, work production and the effectiveness of natural supports, which promote the greatest degree of inclusion, integration and autonomy.

• Supported Employment can include assistance with reporting and managing earnings with Social Security and Medicaid.

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For individuals whose assessed need supports self-employment, employment supports may include services and supports that assist the individual in achieving self-employment through the operation of a business.  

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Assistance for self-employment may include:

• Aide to the individual in identifying potential business opportunities

• Assistance in the development of a business plan, including potential sources of business financing and other assistance in developing and launching a business

• Identification of the supports that are necessary for the individual to operate the business

• Ongoing assistance, counseling, and guidance once the business has been launched

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