Service Detail Page - Goodwill Newark

Career Exploration

Specialized program to assist clients in identifying vocational assets, aptitudes, interests, and potential barriers to employment. This program may include testing, community-based assessments, labor market information, and occupational information.

Work Adjustment

Specialized training in obtaining work behaviors to gain and maintain employment in the community. Program includes proper work habits, social skills, quantity/quality of work, hygiene, acceptance of supervision, and safety awareness.

Community Work Experience

Provides clients an opportunity to sample a particular job of interest. Evaluations assess the client’s capabilities, whether the goal is realistic, and whether training should continue in the chosen career path. Clients experience several job sites, each lasting only a few days.

Job Search Assistance

Designed to assist clients with learning how to contact businesses, apply and interview with employers, network, and secure employment. Clients learn how to successfully identify and respond to potential job opportunities. This service addresses locating job opportunities, interviewing skills, developing a job application / resume / cover letter, following up with employers, addressing potential barriers, and managing online job profiles. Includes Supported Employment Job Search Assistance.

Bridge Support Services

Services may include such tasks as assisting the consumer purchasing appropriate work clothing, purchasing gas cards and/or transportation vouchers, applying to post-secondary programs/training, completing college visits, class registration, and assisting consumer access to other community resources.

Travel Training

Used to teach individuals how to travel independently on public transportation. Instruction includes scheduling transportation requests with providers, reading bus schedules, purchasing tokens/bus passes, training on public transportation rules, demonstrating how to ride public transportation, and contingency planning (missing a bus, getting off at the wrong stop, etc.).

Driver Training

One-on-one tutoring to guide a participant through the coursework and steps necessary to obtain a valid Ohio Class D (standard license) driving permit.

Job Coaching

Working with clients and their employers to problem solve and remove any barriers to job retention. On-the-Job Supports can assist with learning new job duties, quality/quantity of work standards, workplace communication, interpersonal skills, and appropriate work behavior. This service also provides assistance with developing natural and peer supports.

Supported Employment

Intensive, ongoing support services needed to assist an individual with the most significant disabilities to work in an integrated employment setting. Supported Employment services are more intensive, with more frequent and substantial contacts with the participant and his/her person-centered employment team. Participants should be involved in the job search process to the fullest extent possible. The Supported Employment job developer takes on a more active role in securing employment opportunities.

Adult Training Programs Assisting an individual's transition into the workforce.