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Work Force Employment

Real jobs in the community, with support that stays with you on the job — for adults with disabilities in Chautauqua County.

How Work Force helps

  • Vocational counseling — explore your interests, abilities, and dreams with strength and interest assessments
  • Job seeking skills — applications, resumes, interviewing, networking, and where to look
  • Job development — building toward a suitable, competitive, integrated job in the community
  • Employment planning — work goals stated in your own words: the job, location, hours, and wages you want
  • Benefit counseling — understand exactly how working will affect your benefits, before you decide
  • Follow-along support — help with stress and job-related problems after you’re hired, so the job lasts

For employers

Supported employment is a human-resource answer for businesses in our community. Work Force provides ongoing off-site training and supervision at no extra cost to the employer — and you gain a dependable, quality worker from an untapped labor force.

Connection matters as much as work — meet Compeer.

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