The Individual Placement and Support Model: Eight Important Principles that Help us Support Our Clients
We utilize methodology from a variety of resources to help us successfully place and support our clients in their employment journeys. One important model was developed by the IPS Employment Center, a research organization that develops and provides training services to support agencies with missions like ours. Their Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Model is based on eight principles, all of which serve our clients in their goals of independence and inclusion in the mainstream workforce.
Competitive Employment
We seek placements in roles that are not exclusively built for IDD individuals. These are jobs that fulfill necessary duties within a team or company and pay similarly to other workers with comparable duties.
Strategic Job Development
Our team works systematically and strategically with our database of complementary employer contacts and selects good-fit opportunities based on client preferences.
Rapid Process
While we do provide assessments, training and support for our clients to help put them in the ideal position to be selected for a role, we move quickly in our job search and placement phase. Our process has been fine-tuned to be as efficient and successful for our clients as possible.
Expanded Services
We work exclusively to find and support long-term employment opportunities for our clients, but we know that there is value in the larger support team surrounding individuals who face barriers to employment. We provide regular check-ins and ongoing support for those who need it during the employment and maintenance phases of our plan.
Building Employee Education
Our team doesn’t just assist in placing clients in jobs, we also ensure they are educated and able to unpack the other aspects of being a worker, from reading pay stubs, planning for schedules and shift timings and understanding other pay and benefit details.
Inclusivity
We look at what possibilities clients have, not their limitations. This means working with each individual’s abilities and goals to offer good, sustainable options and solutions for on-the-job opportunities.
Maintenance and Check-Ins
While every client and placement is different, our focus on long-term career stability means we provide regular check-ins with the client on-site at work to help build enduring workplace confidence and to ensure the job is still a good fit throughout the whole process.
Client Choice
Our placement options are carefully designed for success, and are always based on client choice. As job seekers, those preferences are always number one in priority. Our work is in service to their on-going career journey!
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