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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.
