Clients & Family
Serving our clients and their families with excellence and to help meet our client’s vocational goals is our top priority. Our goal is to assist their family member to become employed and independent as an active and engaged member of our community.. PWI is a a recognized leader in quality vocational assessment, job training and placement, and ongoing support for adults with developmental and other disabilities. We partner with local businesses to provide meaningful and satisfying work for our “clients” with disabilities and provide our “business partners” with a well-trained and dependable work force.
The job opportunities we pursue enable our clients to become integrated into the workforce. They are employed onsite at area businesses—providing real jobs with real pay, real responsibilities, and real rewards.
How It Works
In preparation for employment, we help clients develop a resume and learn interviewing and other job skills. By assessing individual skills and discovering their interests, we find the jobs that fit best. Once employed, a PWI job coach provides clients with ongoing support to develop work and social skills.
In 2010 we worked with 200 business partners to provide jobs for 750 clients. These clients earned $4.1 million for themselves, and made an average wage of $8.32 per hour. Our community-based employment services are accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF), which allows us to provide a broader range of employment services to Rehabilitative Services clients. While on the job, PWI clients acquire new skills, are part of a team, and find new ways to be successful, including advancement to more challenging positions. Our goal is to help our clients develop their careers and satisfy their ambitions. As clients gain skills, we look for new opportunities within the same company, or a different one, to continue to challenge them.
PWI partners with companies of all sizes, from small, family-run businesses to large corporations.
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