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Career & Vocational Services
Rehabilitation || Career and Vocational || Personal Adjustment ||
Local Independent Travel || Low Vision Clinic || "Ticket-to-Work" ||

The center’s career and vocational services offers opportunities for individual growth and development, confidence building, and economic and personal independence through education and training.

Career and vocational services can also help a person prepare for, and retain with support if necessary, a job in the competitive workplace. Today, thousands of blind individuals are self-sufficient because they are actively employed in a variety of fields such as: lawyers, secretary, computer analyst, stock clerk, engineer, teacher, food service worker, customer service representative, personnel manager. Success in any job is primarily due to the preparation and attitudes the individual brings to the job. The career and vocational services help individuals help themselves be successful.

Career Strategies/Job Development
This service offers an individual the opportunity to develop person-centered vocational goals and objectives through an assessment process. This process may include the opportunity to visit a variety of employment sites to determine abilities and interests within a particular occupation (i.e. community based assessment and situational assessment).

Relationships are developed with businesses for learning experience and possible placement.

Career Consulting
This service offers assistance with skills training in areas such as: resume writing, completing a job application, and interviewing skills.

Work Adjustment
This service assists a person in becoming job ready in order to transition to other rehabilitation services or work. This service assists a person determine their own daily living needs in areas such as: adjustment to vision disability, and developing positive work habits.

Job Placement/Employment Support Services
Job search assistance is offered to individuals seeking competitive employment in the community. Employment support services can provide: worksite evaluations in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA); recommend training and equipment for job accommodations; assessment of work sites; and follow up employment and retention services.

The Seeing Hand is an approved Social Security Administration Employment Network
for the “Ticket-To-Work” program.

Agency Employment Opportunities
The Seeing Hand Association offers training and employment opportunities within the Center based on job availability. Training and employment opportunities include contract work and manufacture of goods and products (e.g. mops, chair caning, hand woven rugs, and crafts).

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The Seeing Hand Association, Inc.  
750 Main Street  
Wheeling, WV 26003  
1-304-232-4810  
contact@seeinghandassociation.com