Many Kinds of People. Many Kinds of Disabilities.

Disability

Individual needs vary based on their life circumstance and disability. Vadis offers two programs for people with all kinds of disabilities ~  One for Adults and one for youth.

Careers

Our Careers team offers an in-depth job search approach to adults with  disabilties.

We provide a free two-day seminar, which teaches vital skills needed to get and keep a job. We support the person in their self-directed job search by offering job-search counseling and by coordinating and negotiating with the businesses that he or she contacts. We provide job leads. We encourage each person to include family, friends and others within their community in the planning and job search process.

For at least a year after a person becomes employed, we provide career counseling and technical assistance to the person and his or her employer to assure advancement, satisfaction and long-term job retention.

Pathways

Pathways is a program Vadis created to fill the void in services for young people with disabilities. Through this program, youth between the ages of 17 and 21 discover what opportunities are open to them. They discover options beyond being dependent upon public assistance. They are encouraged to choose their own career path based on their abilities and to make a meaningful contribution to the community in which they will work and live.

This Vadis program provides school-to-work transition services to youth with  disabilities such as learning disabilities or physical disabilities. Young people with disabilities often have little to no work experience. Schools have traditionally lacked the tools to assist youth who have challenges with employment.

Pathways is designed to help youth develop the tools that they need to move successfully into the adult world. We provide a free two-day seminar, which teaches the skills needed to get and keep a job. We support young people in their self-directed job search by offering advice and by coordinating and negotiating with the businesses that he or she contacts. Follow up services are also provided once the young person becomes employed.