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✓  If [the student has] a physical, mental, or emotional disability that affects [their] ability to obtain or maintain employment, [they] may be eligible for our services to help [them] in finding and retaining meaningful employment.

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By completing the online self-referral, you are taking the first step in your Vocational Rehabilitation journey.

✓ If you have a physical, mental, or emotional disability that affects your ability to obtain or maintain employment, you may be eligible for our services to help you in finding and retaining meaningful employment.

✓ Please complete the form fields so that we may connect you with a counselor who can tell you more about how the VR process works.

✓ Once your information has been received, you will be contacted by VR staff to schedule time to discuss your interest in vocational rehabilitation (VR) services. If you would like, a friend or family member may join you in this conversation.

If you do decide to apply for VR services, eligibility for those services is based on these four factors:

1. You have a physical, cognitive, or mental impairment documented by the appropriately qualified professional (doctor, psychologist or other)

2. Your documented impairment causes a substantial barrier to getting or keeping employment

3. You can benefit from vocational rehabilitation services that lead to an employment outcome

4. You require vocational rehabilitation services to prepare for, secure, retain or regain employment

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"Skills to Pay the Bills: Mastering Soft Skills for Workplace Success," is a curriculum developed by ODEP focused on teaching "soft" or workforce readiness skills to youth, including youth with disabilities. Created for youth development professionals as an introduction to workplace interpersonal and professional skills, the curriculum is targeted for youth ages 14 to 21 in both in-school and out-of-school environments. The basic structure of the program is comprised of modular, hands-on, engaging activities that focus on six key skill areas: communication, enthusiasm and attitude, teamwork, networking, problem solving and critical thinking, and professionalism.

Introduction Materials

Soft Skill #1: Communication

The activities in this section will not only help participants practice and recognize how they provide information to others, but also help them consider how others may prefer to receive information. It is important to reinforce with participants that communication skills involve give and take - and they can, indeed, be learned and strengthened over time.

Soft Skill #2: Enthusiasm & Attitude

The activities in this section seek to teach participants about the importance of enthusiasm and a positive attitude in the workplace. Participants will hear strategies for turning negative thinking into positive thinking and displaying and discussing enthusiasm during an interview and on the job.

Soft Skill #3: Teamwork

The activities in this section seek to teach participants about the importance of teamwork to workplace success and the specific role each individual on a team may play. Participants will learn about positive teamwork behavior and discover how their own conduct can impact others on a team.

Soft Skill #4: Networking

The activities in this section focus on the process of networking and its relevance and importance to career development. Participants will learn about taking initiative and overcoming fear, informational interviewing, as well as potential guidelines to consider when using social networks, texting, and email for networking purposes.

Soft Skill #5: Problem Solving & Critical Thinking

The activities in this section focus on learning how to solve problems in a variety of ways in the workplace. Participants will hear about how to properly tell the difference among criticism, praise, and feedback and reacting appropriately. The section will also review strategies for making ethical decisions, solving problems on a team with others, and learning how to take into account others' perceptions when assessing actions or statements in the workplace.

Soft Skill #6: Professionalism

The activities in this section focus on each of the five individual soft skills presented in this publication (communication, enthusiasm/attitude, teamwork, networking, and problem solving/critical thinking), but in a broader framework. This is because professionalism, is not one skill but the blending and integration of a variety of skills.

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"Skills to Pay the Bills: Mastering Soft Skills for Workplace Success," is a curriculum developed by ODEP focused on teaching "soft" or workforce readiness skills to youth, including youth with disabilities. Created for youth development professionals as an introduction to workplace interpersonal and professional skills, the curriculum is targeted for youth ages 14 to 21 in both in-school and out-of-school environments.

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LMCI specializes in creating quality products and providing high caliber staff support to a wide range of customers. The LMCI product mix ranges from our flagship online career information delivery system, Texas Career Check, to a variety of specialized economic development and regional planning tools. We offer services to students through a Toll-free Career Information Hotline and provide career-oriented tabloids and monographs to assist students and job seekers in making informed education and career choices. Each of these end user products is buttressed by applied academic research on Texas labor market dynamics. LMCI offers a collection of hardcopy and online labor market, career and follow-up information products and customer support services that are second to none! If you would like to purchase any of these items, please print our Product Order Form , complete it, and mail or fax it to us.

Magazines:

Foundation High School Endorsement Bulletins

This series of bulletins takes a closer look at each endorsement area and connects those endorsement pathways to career opportunities. Each comprehensive issue contains vital information about the guidelines of the Foundation High School program and endorsement selection requirements. In addition, they feature careers that are specific to each endorsement area and the accompanying labor market information for each job title. $.50
Check out the five Foundation High School Endorsement Bulletins

Starting the Conversation: Talking to Your Children about Career Exploration

This magazine provides hints for helping your children make good decisions that will ease the transition from high school to college or a career, and will also highlight some tools and sources of information that the Texas Workforce Commission and other state and federal agencies we work with offer. $2.50

Check out Starting the Conversation (accessible PDF)

Careers Are Everywhere! Activity Book for Elementary School Students

This activity book helps elementary students grades 3 through 5 to begin exploring career possibilities. By introducing students to the 16 career clusters they will learn more about in high school, this activity book aims to help students develop self-knowledge, explore education and occupations, and learn to plan for careers. $2.00

Check out Careers Are Everywhere (accessible PDF)

Books:

Brochures:

Top 10 Career Tips Poster Sets

Each panel of the Top 10 Career Tips Brochure has been made into a poster, each with a wide red border. Get the whole set of 5 posters. $12.00

Bookmarks:

Bookmarks are perfect for career fairs! $.10

Reality Check Bookmark

Labor Market & Career Information Bookmark

LMCI Career Information Hotline Bookmark

Online Publications:

The Workplace Essentials Soft Skills white paper

We've heard often over the years that employers hire because of a person's hard skills, but promote, or fire, because of their soft skills. Yet, "soft skills" are loosely defined and hard to quantify. We don't even know what to call them: soft skills, workplace basics, job essentials, professional job skills. The task of including them in employment decision making, no matter which side of the table we are on, is made all the more difficult by this lack of a common language. To bring some order to the chaos, in 2014-15, the Texas Workforce Commission funded research by the Texas State Technical College system to define and validate a common language to describe what we will call Workplace Essential Skills. The result was this Workplace Essentials Skills analysis that for the first time gives company hiring managers, job seekers, employment counselors and students a common language and standardized definitions for the "soft skills" necessary better match individuals to specific job requirements.
Download a one page overview of the Workplace Essentials white paper

Download the four-page report

Download the eight-page bulletin Workplace Basic Skills: Employer Demands and Worker Preparation

Texas Workforce Report 2021-2022

The 2021 Texas Annual Economic Report provides a detailed analysis of the state's demographics, labor market, job market, and occupational employment trends. The Labor Market and Career Information Department of the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) has produced this report to fulfill its commitment to providing the past year's statistical information to the Employment and Training Administration (ETA).
Download Texas Workforce Report 2021-2022

Report on Texas Growth Occupations 2022

Texas Labor Code Section 302.019 requires the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) to gather and study information relating to existing and projected shortages in high-wage, high-demand occupations in Texas annually, including for selected industries. This report summarizes those findings by industry in Texas. The additional data used in this report is current as of the end of federal fiscal year 2022. Thus, the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) data covers the period through first quarter 2022 while Current Employment Statistics (CES) data covers the period through the September 2022 estimates.
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Download Summary Report

Many of these end-user products rely on data generated through a variety of programs operated in cooperation with the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The department provides monthly, survey-based estimates of payroll employment, and estimates of unemployed persons and state and local unemployment rates. LMCI conducts extensive employer surveys to generate occupational wage estimates and generate detailed industry employment and payroll wage data. These data form the backbone of an extraordinarily rich data environment from which to understand the Texas labor market.

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Get help preparing for post-secondary education and employment opportunities through the following individualized services. Services are based on eligibility and your individual need, and are provided in collaboration with the family, high school, community college, or Educational Service Center.

Pre-Employment Transition Services

Receive core services, as needed, to help prepare for post-secondary education and employment opportunities:

Vocational counseling, including counseling in job exploration and post-secondary training opportunities

Counseling on opportunities for post-secondary education such as college, vocational schools, etc.

Work-based learning experiences, including internships and on-the-job training

Training in workplace and employer expectations

Training in self-advocacy and social skills

The Pre-ETS Catalog is a tool developed in partnership with Texas A&M's Center on Disability and Development to give students, parents, and educators a place to start learning about Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) and how to make contact with Vocational Rehabilitation.

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Assistive technologies, including screen reader software, computer equipment and other items

Job matching and placement services

Transportation assistance to and from your job, college or certification program, Referral to other state, federal and community agencies and organizations

Rehabilitation Teachers Services to help you learn Braille, orientation & mobility, and home and health management skills if you have a vision-related disability

Vocational adjustment training

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Texas Career Check lets you explore higher education options by looking at detailed information by school and progam of study, AND you can explore occupations of your interest by education level, region, trends and more.

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Has a child's disability recently touched your life? Are you visiting our website today looking for information about that disability? We're very pleased you're here, because Partners Resource Network has a great deal of information about disabilities to share. We hope this page will point you to disability resources on our website that may come in handy, now and as time goes by.

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The Collaborative (NTACT:C) Supporting you to improve opportunities and outcomes for students and youth with disabilities

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Student HireAbility Navigator
Workforce Solutions

Jasmine Hernandez holds a Bachelor of Science in Rehabilitative Services from the University of Texas-Pan American.  She currently serves as a Student HireAbility Navigator at Workforce Solutions, the local workforce board servicing the counties of Hidalgo, Starr, and Willacy     located in Texas. She has over 10 years of experience working with youth.

She completed her internship as a Job Coach where she assisted clients with disabilities obtain soft skills, develop a work routine, prepare for interviews and job search.  As a Youth Career Counselor, she assisted customers ages of 16-24 obtain work experience and embark on their chosen career pathway.  Most recently, as a Workforce Outreach Specialist, she cultivated and strengthened relationships with local school districts, colleges, community partners, and employers for the goal of empowering students in their decisions about their future education, training, and    career.  As a Student HireAbility Navigator she is currently focused on the development, coordination, capacity-building, and provision of pre-employment transition services provided in the Workforce Solutions Lower Rio development area.

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