What is Employment Access?

Employment Access supports adults with an intellectual disability to:

• Identify vocational interests:
  • abilities
  • goals and
  • supports required to ensure on-the-job success
    
• Secure community based work including:
  • employment,
  • work experience and
  • volunteer opportunities

We Provide 

• Work experience and volunteer opportunities 
• Assistance in securing community placement 
• Individualized Support Planning (I.S.P.)
• Information and linkage to other community resources
• Develop an Employment Plan:
  • Identify employment goals
  • Arrange job trials, travel, route and mobility training 
  • Devise steps to their achievement
  • Using all approved goods and services.
• Site-specific training and skills development 
• Support coordination 
• Remediation and vocational life skills training 
• Follow-up and consultation services 

What You Receive

• Individualized Support Plan (I.S.P.) 
• Job readiness instruction (group or individualized) 
• Identify career goals 
• Resume development  and interview preparedness 
• Placement services 
• On-site job coaching and skills training 
• Travel, route and mobility training 
• Follow-up and support by a Community Placement Specialist 
• Linkage with other community resources

The outcome of the plan must be to assist individuals in securing and maintaining employment. With the support of a Community Placement Specialist, the individual will develop an action plan to secure and maintain work experience and/or volunteer opportunities within their community.

Getting Started

All service requests, with the exception of those seeking employment, must be referred through CONTACT Hamilton at (905) 570-8888.

For further information please see the CONTACT Hamilton website.