In-House Job training

Transforming people through work

Goodwill works with Arkansas Rehabilitation Services (ARS) to prepare Arkansans with disabilities to work and lead productive and independent lives. Goodwill offers a variety of programs and services to help train, employ and support individuals with disabilities to provide the assistance they need to enter or return to the workplace. These programs focus on developing and maintaining work skills and habits so that individuals with disabilities will be successful in a work environment to become productive and independent taxpayers and citizens.

Eligibility

Referred from Arkansas Rehabilitation Services
Have a physical or mental disability
Reasonable expectation that the participant will eventually obtain competitive employment
Must be at least 18 years of age.

Assessment

Our first step when you come to Goodwill is to understand an individual’s goals, skills and interest. Through information gathering during situation assessments, we help the individual develop a customized employment plan.

Work Adjustment Training

After an individual has been through Assessment and his/her work capabilities have been identified, Work Adjustment Training is often the next step in their path to employment. Work Adjustment Training is time limited, intensive training program, which assist people in developing or reestablishing skills, attitudes, interpersonal skills, work behaviors and functional capacities that will help them move toward, or achieve, employment.

Work provided in-house at Goodwill’s facility is used as the basis for these training services. This training is supplemented by counseling /support services that are coordinated by Goodwill staff.

Services provided, as needed, address barriers to the person’s employment goals, including but not limited to:

Attendance/punctuality
Grooming/hygiene/attire
Job-seeking skills
On-the-job performance skills
Work-related skills such as time management and mobility
Work-related communication skills
Work-related interpersonal skills

Goodwill staff will coordinate any additional community services needed by the individual to overcome his/her barriers to employment.

Extended Employment Services

Extended Employment is designed to provide paid training experiences to program participants who have completed the Assessment or Work Adjustment programs and have been approved to continue in the program by the referring counselor. The purpose of Extended Employment Services is to provide additional training to individuals who appear to be employable and who need continued services to reach their maximum potential.

Individuals entering the program must meet certain Title XX eligibility requirements and be available to work through more intensive job readiness and skills building activities. The Extended Services program time runs through the duration of the remaining 12 months after Work Adjustment is completed.

While in the program, job coaches guide participants to place emphasis on learning job retention skills, developing interpersonal relationships, understanding money management, and pursuing additional vocational goals as determined by individual need and interest.

Working at Goodwill

Goodwill-based employment provides training for individuals in a variety of work areas at our Little Rock corporate facility. Opportunities include: packaging, light assembly, donated goods processing, janitorial services, retail stocking and clerking, materials handling and recycling.

For More Information

Contact Arkansas Rehabilitation Services 800-330-0632 for a referral or contact Goodwill Industries of Arkansas for information 501-372-5100.

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