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COARC creates employment opportunities designed to meet a variety needs and the desires of individual experiencing disabilities. COARC has community based job development, job placement, and onsite job coaching services, as well as an assortment of in-house job opportunities where individuals can receive additional staff supports to work on an array of work-related skills. Our goal is to maximize each person's ability to have meaningful employment to ensure each individual is leading the fullest, most independent life possible.
Supported Employment Services
Columbia Work Link, located on Warren Street in Hudson, NY is a division of COARC and operates all of COARC’s Supported Employments services. This program provides individuals experiencing disabilities the opportunity to work a job in the local business community and receive the individual supports needed to be successful.
Services included Employment Training, Job Placement, and On-site Training to ensure each individual achieves success in their employment. Ongoing support and vocation counseling is also available.
Some of the services that are provided under Supported Employment are:
- Job Coaching
- Resume building
- Assistance preparing for Interviews
- Job search and development
- Skills Assessment
Just some of the jobs that we have assisted people with include:
- Data Entry Operator
- Warehouse assistant
- Landscape Maintenance
- Residential/commercial Cleaner
- Grocery Clerk
- Animal Care
- Production Worker
- Farm Laborer
- Office Clerk
- Retail Clerk
- Cashier
- Waitress
Whether you are an individual looking for support with your vocational goals, or an employer looking for some great employees, for more information about our Supported Employment services, please contact the Columbia Work Link or email us at info@coarc.org.
Prevocational and Training Center Services
COARC also has great jobs for individuals who are looking either for a little more support, or a great community atmosphere. Between COARC’s Training Center in Mellenville, NY and COARC’s Second Street Assembly Facility in Hudson, NY, COARC employs and supports approximately 150 individual experiencing disabilities, both in integrated and non-integrated settings.
Work activities are based on each individual's ability. Some individuals work with simple one and two step assembly, sorting and packaging activities where they can may receive supervision and support to stay on task. Other individuals work on complex injection molding and productions line operations and work very independently. Additional positions also include welding, soldering, and quality assurance activities. Manufacture’s products that COARC produces range in categories to include medical, marine, electronics, cosmetics, consumable and promotional items.
With a staff of over forty and backgrounds that include a variety of mental health and rehabilitation disciplines, COARC's programs offers diagnostic vocational evaluations, personal adjustment trainings, situational assessments and long-term sheltered employment. One of the main goals for the programs is to assist individuals to obtain the skills needed for community employment—and to that end every individual gains an understanding and meaning of work, its value and the demands work places on them.
- Skills Assessment enables people to explore jobs in food service, janitorial, building maintenance, material handling, assembly, packaging, equipment operation, and clerical/data entry positions.
- Pre-vocational Services provide individuals with the social and work-related behaviors needed to become a successful employee. Skills taught in the program include; social interactions with other people/co-workers, time management skills, and appropriate workplace "behavior."
For more information about our Vocational services and our Training Center, please contact COARC's Main Headquarters or email us at info@coarc.org.
