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Vocational Rehabilitation
Vocational rehabilitation is defined as a process that a disabled individual goes through in order to gain, maintain, or return to employment. Your individual needs will determine how many people you work with and what roles are needed to aid in your successful entry into the workplace. These needs will also determine the length and overall complexity of the process.
Supported Employment
In order to Qualify for services there must be a referral from a community source. Such as waiver, LRS, Metropolitan Human Services, or Jefferson Parish Human Services Authority. In addition you must have a physical, emotional, mental, or learning disability that prevents you from being able to hold a job/obtain one on your own.
You need the help of vocational rehabilitation services in order to get, maintain, or return to a job.
You will benefit from having a job that vocational rehabilitation services will help you get and keep.
These are the vocational rehabilitation services that may be available to you:
- Assessment of your current state.
- Researching options for you based on assessments.
- Helping you set goals for yourself.
- Planning interventions.
- Providing you with health advice to help you return to work.
- Finding ways to limit the impact of your condition on your ability to work.
- Helping you learn to self-manage your condition.
- Managing your case.
- Referring you to other people who can help with your case.
- Co-ordinating people to provide the best service for you.
- Career counseling.
- Analyzing and developing job opportunities.
- Providing job placement services to get you into a job.
- Ongoing evaluations of your ability to work.
Places we have placed people on our program
Testimonial
"Virage is an amazing organization that not only teaches my son career skills, but gives him the confidence and life skills that he uses everyday in the community. The Jackson family respects their clients' strengths and encourages them to be the best version of themselves."MR
"Since, Sam has been working with your program – he has become more confident, and looks forward to going to work.Sam learned to read some by sight and memory, but once he aged out of School, he didn't try to read or learn new words anymore. Since working with Virage he is now trying to pronounce street names that we pass often, because he has more confidence in his reading with the help of his job coach. He has now even turned on the closed-captioning on his TV. A trick my Niece (a School Teacher) had me try when he was younger, so he could associate the written word with the sound. Sam has started doing that again since working on the mobile crew, so that shows me, he really is trying to learn as much as he can. I am so grateful that I did speak with Neisha Jackson and enrolled him in the Virage Community Service program."Joyce Smith White
"It was such a pleasure to receive services from Virage for my daughter. It was a joy connecting with Mr and Mrs Jackson who were always kind and professional. As her Job Coach, Mr Jackson was patient and very diligent in his efforts to help my daughter find a job that suited her. He hung in there , even while waiting out the tough times with the COVID 19 pandemic. He made her feel confident in her own capabilities and found a job where she is blossoming and growing more independent. Thanks for a great experience!"Mrs. Lynelle Batiste
"Mr. Jackson was an amazing job coach.He helped me so much with getting a job. He supported me in everything and had good results out of it. He never gave up on me and kept trying until we reached our goal. He was the best job coach ever."Kailyn Batiste