Employment Services
At the Stevens County Developmental Achievement Center, we believe everyone deserves the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive. Our employment services empower individuals to build essential skills, gain confidence, and explore meaningful work opportunities.
Our employment services are meticulously designed to equip individuals with specific skills tailored to various trades, professions, or occupations.
We focus on preparing service recipients for employment within specific industries or job roles, providing hands-on training, interactive learning opportunities and technical expertise to navigate whatever comes up along the way.
Whether it’s life skills training, job shadowing, or community employment, we tailor the experience to individual interests.
Employment Services We Provide
Prevocational Services
Work-skills training and support services that focus on strengthening people’s fundamental work skills and achieving their individualized work-skill goals through meaningful work experiences and vocational training. Prevocational services develop necessary and marketable work skills and abilities to meet the challenging demands of work. To be eligible for prevocational services, a person needs to qualify for a waiver and have an assessed need in their support plan. People who are new to prevocational services on or after January 11th, 2021, can receive prevocational services for three years. A one year extension is available in certain circumstances. Contact us to learn more about the possibilities this service offers.
Employment Exploration
Services that help a person gain a better understanding of employment opportunities in their community. Exploration activities and experiences strengthen a person’s knowledge, interests and preferences so they can make informed decisions about employment. To be eligible for employment exploration services, a person needs to qualify for a waiver and have an assessed need in their support plan. Contact us to learn more.
Employment Development
Individualized services designed to help a person achieve competitive, integrated employment, become self-employed or establish a microenterprise business in their community. Employment development services include a plan phase and a find phase. The plan phase helps the person plan their work goals and discover personal strengths, interests and conditions for employment. The plan phase supports people as they transition between VRS/SSB and waiver programs. The find phase helps the person search for and obtain competitive, integrated employment or develop a microenterprise business. This service is typically authorized by VRS/SSB. When VRS/SSB is not available, the waiver can fund this service. For information about each phase, contact us.
Employment Support
Individualized services and supports that help people maintain paid employment in community businesses/settings. Employment support services occur in integrated community settings. To be eligible for employment support services, a person needs to qualify for a waiver and have an assessed need in their support plan. Contact us to find out more.
Employment Services available with the DAC through VRS/SSB
Student Opportunities
- Job Exploration Counseling: Explore jobs, fields, careers, vocational interests, labor market, career pathways of interest.
- Work-Based Learning Experiences: Intro to work activities, work experience services & wages, internship service & wages and coaching
- Post-Secondary Education Counseling: Assistance for post secondary education enrollment, assistance FAFSA/student loans, scholarships and grants and college preparation
- Workplace Readiness Training: Job seeking skills, independent living and soft skills training, benefit information, learning about transportation (using public transportation)
- Instruction in Self Advocacy: Learn about disability and its impact, learn how and why to ask for accommodations, supports and assistive technology, learning about rights and responsibilities, mentoring
- Instruction Work Activities: Informational interview, job shadow, service learning, workplace tours/field trip
Job Seeker Services
- Employment Placement and Retention: Resume building, job searching, learn your job duties, solve problems and work productively and on/off site job coaching and support
- Customized Employment and Discovery
- Supportive Services & Wages includes: Job shadowing, job tryouts, on-the-job evaluation and work experience
- Resume Building
Interview Preparation and Practice - Post Secondary Supports
- Independent Living: Benefit (DB101) and social security assistance
- Permit and Driving Preparation and Public Transportation Training
- Job Seeking Skills Training: Improve the quality and quantity of your work, training and certificate course
Why choose the Stevens County DAC?
Experienced Team
Our team of professionals is dedicated to providing personalized support, guidance, and encouragement to help individuals achieve their goals.
Comprehensive Programs
Our center offers a comprehensive range of activities across various categories to support holistic development and personal growth.
Inclusive Environment
We create a supportive and inclusive environment where everyone is valued, respected, and empowered to reach their full potential.
Meaningful Connections
Through community integration initiatives and social activities, we foster meaningful connections and promote a sense of belonging.
