Common use of SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM Clause in Contracts

SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM. The Supported Employment Program provides a range of services through community-based projects to help persons with disabilities prepare for, find and keep employment. The Supported Employment Program assists non-profit community organizations to develop and deliver supported employment activities, with an emphasis on pre- employment skills, supported work experience and job placements leading to employment. Services are to improve the participant’s general employability, prepare for further training or job search or result in direct employment outcomes. In 2015/16, fifteen community-based supported employment projects were cost-shared under the LMAPD: Association for Community Living – Beausejour; Association for Community Living – Interlake; Connect Employment Services; envision Community Living; Equal Opportunities West; Focus on Employment; Parkland Residential Vocational Services; Rose Inc.; Premier Personnel Inc.; ▇▇▇ Inc.; SCE Lifeworks Inc.; SMD ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇; The Pas Association for Human Development; ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Coalition Employment Opportunity; and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Employment Services. In 2015/16, these agencies provided support and services to 1,144 participants and of those, 781 had some employment. Of those employed, 532 participants met the supported employment definition of employment of 15 hours or more per week, at minimum wage or higher, for three consecutive months or longer. Additionally, 60 participants worked less than 15 hours or more per week but were assessed as having worked at their ‘maximum capacity’ due to

SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM. The Supported Employment Program provides a range of services through community-based projects to help persons with disabilities prepare for, find and keep employment. The Supported Employment Program assists non-profit community organizations to develop and deliver supported employment activities, with an emphasis on pre- employment skills, supported work experience and job placements leading to employment. Services are to improve the participant’s general employability, prepare for further training or job search or result in direct employment outcomes. In 2015/162013/14, fifteen thirteen community-based supported employment projects were cost-shared under the LMAPD: Association for Community Living – Beausejour; Association for Community Living – Interlake; Association for Community Living – Steinbach; Connect Employment Services; envision Community Living; Equal Opportunities West; Focus on Employment; Parkland Residential Vocational Services; Rose Inc.; Premier Personnel Inc.; ▇▇▇ Inc.; SCE Lifeworks Inc.; SMD ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇; The Pas Association for Human Development; ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Coalition Employment Opportunity; and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Employment Services. In 2015/162013/14, these agencies provided support and services to 1,144 1,165 participants and of those, 781 had some 752 obtained employment. Of those employed, 532 469 participants met the supported employment definition of employment of 15 hours or more per week, at minimum wage or higher, for three consecutive months or longer. Additionally, 60 participants worked less than 15 hours or more per week but were assessed as having worked at their ‘maximum capacity’ due to.

SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM. The Supported Employment Program provides a range of services through community-based projects to help persons with disabilities prepare for, find and keep employment. The Supported Employment Program assists non-profit community organizations to develop and deliver supported employment activities, with an emphasis on pre- employment skills, supported work experience and job placements leading to employment. Services are to improve the participant’s general employability, prepare for further training or job search or result in direct employment outcomes. In 2015/162016/17, fifteen community-based supported employment projects were cost-shared under the LMAPD: Association for Community Living – Beausejour; Association for Community Living – Interlake; Connect Employment Services; envision Community Living; Equal Opportunities West; Focus on Employment; Parkland Residential Vocational Services; Rose Inc.; Premier Personnel Inc.; ▇▇▇ Inc.; SCE Lifeworks Inc.; SMD ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇; The Pas Association for Human Development; ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Coalition Employment Opportunity; and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Employment Services. In 2015/162016/17, these agencies provided support and services to 1,144 1,188 participants and of those, 781 886 had some employment. Of those employed, 532 528 participants met the supported employment definition of employment of 15 hours or more per week, at minimum wage or higher, for three consecutive months or longer. Additionally, 60 65 participants worked less than 15 hours or more per week but were assessed as having worked at their ‘maximum capacity’ due toto disability related issues. A total of 593 participants were considered to have had a successful employment outcome in 2016/17.