The Fresh Start Program is a 4 week class. It will help women and men 18 yeas and older with support and tools for academic and personal goals.

Fresh Start Program will help with:

• Build confidence and self-esteem
• Develop financial awareness and personal planning
• Develop personal awareness
• Explore career and educational options
• Learn healthy coping skills
• Learn job search tools
• Master the art of finding, obtaining, and keeping a job
• Offered on an as-needed basis is a 30 hour evening class called WAND (Women Achieving New Directions) to help individuals find career focus.

Please call for more information.

The agency helps job seekers who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deafblind get and keep jobs. Call 386.362.5461 or click HERE to go to the website to learn

Services Include:

• Job Counseling
• Assistive Listening Devices (FM Systems)
• Sign Language Interpreting
• Real-time Captioning
• Adaptive Devices

This agency provides direct care services. These services are for people with disabilities. They include a variety of employment related programs. The help is customized for each person. Please call or visit the website for more information.

Programs & Services Include:

This program provides employment services to people who are blind or visually impaired. The goal is to place them into jobs that are compatible with their interests and abilities. Services could also include direct training at the job site and help with issues that have an impact on the job. This includes issues such as transportation, housing and referrals to local resources.

Please see the website for all services.

This service can help people with disabilities find jobs. They give career counseling, training, and coaching. They can match you directly to jobs. They also follow up with you to make sure you are able to keep your job or get more help.

Please call 407.235.1560 or click HERE to go to the website to learn more.

ARC Broward provides a range of services to children and adults with disabilities.

Services offered:

• Career counseling
• Job accommodation assistance for employers
• Job development, placement and follow along supports
• Pre-employment skills training
• Travel training

Please call for more information.

This center helps people with disabilities live as independently as they can. They give people the tools to be their own best resource. This is done by offering a wide range of programs and services. Please call 352.378.7474 or go to the website to learn more.

Services & Programs Available:

The group works to meet the needs of people with developmental disabilities. Call 386.362.7143 or visit the website to learn more.

Services Include:

• Advocacy
• Adult Day Training
• Residential Group Home
• Respite Care

This is a shelter for pregnant women over the age of 18 with no other children in their care. The house can accommodate one woman with a child under five in certain cases.

Education and job training are provided so the women can get a GED or college diploma. They will develop specific job seeking skills so they will be more self sufficient. Each woman stays an average of six to eight months after her baby is born.

Office Hours are Monday through Friday from 9am-4pm. The shelter is staffed 24 hours a day.

http://www.divinemercyhouse.org

We help people with disabilities (physical and/or mental) achieve their employment goal and we help them feel more independent.