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Provides a ten-week paid internship program to youth. Coordinates placement opportunity within their field of interest to receive mentorship and training resulting in experience and expose to the talent pools entering the workforce.

* Offers a wide range of services to assist consumers in obtaining long-term employment in their chosen field in transitional and supported employment programs including: Vocational assessments. Career coaching. Resume preparation. Interviewing skills. Job development for volunteer and placement. Vocational groups. Job development and placement. Job coaching. Assistance with maintaining employment. Long-term, follow-along services.

Provides assistance with recognizing skills, creating a resume, gaining job interview skills, and helps individuals learn how to search for jobs.

* Offers a hospital-based licensed practical nurse (LPN) training program. Includes classroom instruction curriculum as well as clinical experience in acute and long-term care settings.

Provides person-centered support to assist young adults with disabilities to become prepared for the workforce and achieve gainful employment in the community. Services include an employment training program, support employment, prevocational services, and pathway to employment.

Offers transitioning students and adults with disabilities in finding and maintaining community-based employment. Services include career assessment, job finding, job placement, job coaching and ongoing services. Individual and group placement opportunities are available and are placed upon individual needs of structure, and supervision.

* Provides a 150+ hour training program that prepares students to be responsible for providing patient care under the supervision of a nurse. Skills learned include: Bathing. Distribute and collect trays. Feeding patients. Escort and transfer patients. Provide oral care. Turn and position patients. Other necessary functions of daily living.

Provides adult and continuing education programs including basic educational services, high school equivalency preparation, and job readiness training.

Provides assistance with resume writing, interview skills, and the career search. Resource room includes access to personal computers, fax machine, and internet access for job search. Offers a resource library contains books, videotapes, and other materials for use by job seekers.

Provides vocational rehabilitation services to eligible individuals to prepare them for employment (including helping them to further their education) consistent with their strengths, ability and interest. These jobs can be in the competitive workforce, self-owned businesses in the home, sheltered workshops or in supported employment in the community. Also works with students, families and school districts to coordinate appropriate services for students with disabilities who are leaving secondary education and entering adult vocational rehabilitation.

Offers a semester long internship. Students meet at county facilities for seven all day sessions during one semester and receive hands on experience about county government including hearing department presentations, observing a legislative session, interviewing a County Legislator. The interns conduct a simulated legislative session as their culminating activity, where they introduce, discuss and vote on resolutions of their choosing about a county matter.

Provides a youth mentoring program to equip youth to build career plans and learn skills to prepare for school completion, post-secondary training and productive careers.

* Offers work readiness programs for youth: Job readiness workshops. Career exploration. Referrals to TASC (GED) programs. Internships. Leadership opportunities. Academic support. Community service opportunities.

* Offers educational resources for healthcare professionals. Currently offering: Care Coordinator Certificate Program. Professionalism in Healthcare. Cultural Competency & Health Literacy. Motivational Interviewing. Social Determinents of Health. How to Manage Employee Burnout. Mental Health First Aid Training. Trauma Informed Care.

Offers career technical training in more than 100 career areas. Students receive housing, meals, basic health care, a living allowance, training, and preparation for a career.

Provides diverse Adult and Continuing Education Programs (credit and non-credit), personal skills workshops, professional development opportunities, and satellite-transmitted and video programs.

Provides a vocational evaluation service to assists individuals with disabilities. Services include offer support with learning their skills and interests for a fulfilling career choice. Opportunities such as traditional career exploration resources and on-site job try-outs may assist participants with learning about different types of work. Offers convenient access to other Schenectady ARC services including school-to-work transition, day habilitation, sheltered and supported employment.

Provides counseling, advocacy, job preparation, career readiness training, computer training and support services to individualw ho have been displaced from their careers as unpaid homemakers. Enables participants to develop the self-confidence as well as education, and vocational skills.

Provides occupational training to secondary students and adults. Designed to provide career exploration and community-based work experience to interested high school seniors throughout the county.

* Offers accessible workforce training, including job readiness, soft skills skill development, interviewing, short-term training courses and certifications such as: Forklift CertificationCustomer Service BasicsDocument ManagementDirect Support Professional

Job Assist offers teens, ages 14-21, employment training and placement services. Job assist recruits employers and individuals who are looking to fill a variety of jobs and matches them with teens looking for employment.

Advocate for an enhanced quality of life and independence of persons with intellectual, developmental and other disabilities.

Program includes short- and long-term volunteer/service projects; credit courses with community components; community-based research under faculty supervision; fundraising to benefit community organizations; internships; and more.

Offers vocational and educational testing, career guidance and research, individual and group counseling, job placement services, resume preparation and interview skill workshops for adults. Offers transition planning, vocational assessment, community placement and life skills programming for adolescents.

Provides a school-based program aimed at assisting youth, ages 14-17, to complete the National Work Readiness Credential and participate in an eight week paid internship. Offers workshops geared toward wellness, work readiness and employment seeking strategies. Program held at South Country, Wyandanch, Brentwood, Central Islip School Districts high schools. After school, hours vary by district. Call for more information.