Supported Employment
What is Supported Employment?
Supported employment programs help people with disabilities find, secure, and keep employment. The customer drives every step of the job-seeking process. Each of our customers hire a team of professionals and advocates to work with them and to help them identify their talents and interests. Then the team explores the individual’s skills and interests. As the process progresses the team explores possible job opportunities and sets about securing inclusive employment with competitive wages. A successful job placement is not necessarily defined by how long a customer stays at a job, but by their satisfaction with their job.
Our Mission:
To provide people with disabilities the highest quality job development services available.
Our Values:
WE WILL:
- Serve all people with disabilities regardless of the severity of their disability
- Treat every customer with respect
- Maintain a belief that every person should have an opportunity to work
- Find work for people with disabilities in the community, making minimum wage or better and surrounded by people who do not have disabilities
- Promote teamwork between employer, councilor, person with disabilities, advocate, and supported employment specialist
- Allow the customer to lead the process by utilizing a person-centered model
Our Success Stories (click to download the PDF):
UCP Supported Employment In the News:
- Click to download a PDF of an article from the United Way of the Columbia-Willamette
- Click to download a PDF of the UCP September 2007 Family Support newsletter and read page 4
- Click to download a PDF of the UCP July 2007 Family Support newsletter and read page 4
- Click to download a PDF of the UCP April 2007 Family Support newsletter and read page 4
- Click to read about Jeff at his workplace
Our Business Partners Include:
For more information please contact Melissa Miller (503) 777-4166, Ext. 244
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