This summer our Employment Solutions Team successfully developed job opportunities for 15 individuals in the community with barriers to employment.
These are some of their stories.
This is what we do.
We are Bee Successful.
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Full Employment – Summer 2018
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Ontario Disability Support Program
Overview
If you have a disability and need help with your living expenses, you may be eligible for the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP).
ODSP offers:
- financial assistance to help you and your family with essential living expenses
- benefits, for you and your family, including prescription drugs and vision care
- help finding and keeping a job, and advancing your career
If you require immediate financial assistance, please contact your local Ontario Works office (you can also still apply for ODSP).
Types of support
ODSP offers two types of support:
- Income support – Financial assistance provided each month to help with the costs of basic needs, like food, clothing and shelter. Income support also includes benefits, like drug coverage and vision care, for clients and their eligible family members.
- Employment supports – Services and supports to help clients with disabilities find and keep a job, and advance their careers.
Eligibility and applying
Each type of support has its own eligibility requirements and application process.
- Income support
- Employment supports
Resources
The links below will take you to policy directives that are used by ODSP staff to help ensure fair and consistent service across the province.
Source law
ODSP is governed by the Ontario Disability Support Program Act and
- Regulation 222/98 – General (Income Support)
- Regulation 223/98 – Employment Supports
- Regulation 224/98 – Assistance for Children with Severe Disabilities
- Regulation 225/98 – Administration and Cost Sharing
- Regulation 562/05 – Prescribed Policy Statements
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Welcome To Our New Employment Service!
Community Living Upper Ottawa Valley is proud to announce a new employment service: Bee Successful. This service is focused on matching people of any age who have a disability with a good work environment. The service includes the following:
Employment Matching
We specifically match employees to vacancies. As an agency that knows disabilities, we have a good sense of what type of employee works best in certain work environments. We also know the questions to ask both employers and potential employees to create matches that are beneficial to both. This saves both parties time and stress in knowing that there is a strategy behind the match.
Coaching + Follow-Up
To ensure a smooth transition in the workplace, we provide job coaching, on-site at the point of hire for the employees. This is at no cost to the employer. We want to ensure a positive match and we are willing to put the effort forth to do that. When the training is complete, our job doesn’t end there. We also provide ongoing follow-up in case duties change.
Workplace Inclusiveness
For workplaces that are new to hiring someone with a disability, we can help you with any accommodations that might be needed. Often these are fairly easy to implement, but if you’re new to it, it can appear to be a lot of work. We work in this arena every day, and there are many ways to be accommodating – many of which we use ourselves. Our expertise is at your service.
Hiring people can be a time consuming endeavour, whether they have disabilities or not. For employers, we can alleviate some of that work for you. We will recruit and review potential candidates, plus offer assistance to make that candidate successful with you. Why not take advantage of that opportunity?
If you are a potential candidate and you haven’t been successful in the past, or if we turned you away once because we didn’t offer this service, come see us. We have the support available to help you and we look forward to helping you “bee” successful.
