Comprehensive Vocational Evaluation Services
Vocational Evaluation - Clients are assisted in identifing potential career goals through the completion of a series of tests.
LSEA Evaluation Learning Styles Evaluation and Accommodations (LSEA):
Clients are assisted in determining potential for post-secondary education and training and identifying accommodations that will maximize their capability of succeeding in the program they choose to participate in.
The evaluation is generally completed in two to four days; however, it may not be consecutive days. During the evaluation, the client will participate in both group testing and individual testing.
The client will participate in:
• Achievement Testing
• Aptitude Testing
• Vocational Interest Assessment
• Learning and Working Styles Assessment
How the LSEA can benefit the individual:
• Determine potential for post-secondary education or training
• Identify accommodations for the classroom that will maximize their capability of succeeding
• Identify compensatory strategies that will assist the individual in succeeding
• Identify the best learning and working styles to enhance learning and job performance
• Identify vocational interests to maximize educational and vocational satisfaction
• Identify personality traits to help the individual understand themselves better and how that relates to the educational and vocational settings
Employee Development Program
The overall purpose of the Employee Development Program is to identify, modify, and/or develop behaviors which include general work skills, dress and grooming, attendance and punctuality, knowledge of work practices, and related skills which would lead to employment.
Employee Development Areas:
Computer Technology: This class evaluates and offers vocational training to clients in the area of clerical work. Training areas offered include typing, ten-key, Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, Windows Operating System, Internet, and Computer Terminology.
Academics: This area is designed to upgrade a person’s reading, math, and language skills.
Building Maintenance: This area is designed to assess vocational strengths and weakness through performing job tasks in all phases of building services and grounds work. This is done through observation, discussion, demonstration, oral instruction, individual teaching, and supervised job instruction. The client should learn various duties involved in grounds keeping and building services.
Contracts: Clients are placed in the contracts area to determine ability to follow instructions and stay on task. Physical tolerance, speed, and accuracy are also assessed. Duties include packaging, assembly, and utilizing small hand tools.
Job School: Job School is a three-week structured job preparedness program, which ensures an individual has the tools he/she needs to find and maintain employment.
The Job School classes consist of:
• Positive Thinking, Motivation, and Self-Esteem: This class focuses on the importance of thinking positively and believing in ones’ self during job search and through out their career. Goal setting, attitude, overcoming challenges, dedication, and commitment to succeeding are discussed.
The segment on self-esteem allows an individual to evaluate certain patterns of negative self- talk in order to develop insight into how to turn these self-criticisms into affirmations. The purpose of this class is to boost an individual’s self image, therefore, improving self-confidence as an employee.
• Effective Communication Skills: This course covers the most important communication skills essential to healthy, happy relationships between people in society and on the job. Individuals are taught to express themselves clearly, accurately, and assertively.
• Stress Management: This course is designed as a comprehensive program to teach key stress management skills for coping with the most common sources of stress. Each session uses various approaches to assist participants in the development of life-long skills for managing stress.
• Anger Management: This class was designed to help the clients recognize and deal with unresolved anger. The course also includes helpful conflict management skills necessary for healthy personal and professional relationships.
• Money Management: In this area, clients are given information concerning paychecks, deductions, and budgeting.
• Work Ethics: “Ethics in the Work Place” is designed to inform the client about ethical values of which they may be ignorant, to reinforce values they already know, and to demonstrate by example sound ethical analysis, reasoning, and conduct. The client can significantly increase their job retention ability by demonstrating an understanding of these ethical values. The course is centered around a video titled “NOT FOR SALE”. This video depicts four young people who all go to work for a department store and have to learn through experience about right and wrong in a business context.
• Job Readiness: Easter Seals’ Job Readiness program is designed to give the client the tools necessary to start a successful job search, regardless of education or work experience. Scheduling time, budgeting, self-assessment, skills inventories, and goal setting are covered. The client also learns to locate jobs in the “hidden” job market and how to create professional resumes and master applications. The participants will gain confidence in their job interviewing skills by learning good strategies and practical techniques to use during the interview. These skills are reinforced by the participant taking part in a “mock” interview, which will be videoed as a positive reinforcement.
• Job Retention: This five-day class is designed for anyone who may have trouble keeping a job or may have a situation that might affect job survival. Through worksheets, exercises, checklists, examples, and discussion, participants find guidance on how to cope at work when you have barriers, why a good attitude is needed, why workplace rules should be followed, how to set goals, how to prioritize, how to be a better worker, how to be ready for unexpected problems, how to fix problems inside/outside of work, how to strengthen work habits, and how to manage stress on the job.
Community Employment Services:
Provides assistance in the job search process to help identify, obtain and/or maintain employment.
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