Service d’aide à l’emploi pour personnes en situation de handicap/Employment services for people with disabilities @ L’étape (Montréal)

L’ÉTAPE offers its services to people with disabilities that need adapted assistance services in their job search and subsequently, to stay employed. Their services are part of a global approach based on an assessment of a person’s individual needs and the recognition and harnessing of his-her strengths. Services include, employment service adapted to the needs and condition of the person, individual counseling and follow-up, assessment of the person’s employability, skills and capacities, guidance for professional and educational decision-making, preparation of efficient job search tools, résumé and letter of introduction, step-by-step job search plans, preparation for job interviews and advice on how to explain one’s disability to employers, adaptation of workstation, post-hiring follow-up, coaching in the workplace and intervention to ensure job retention, evaluation of eligibility to a financial employment assistance program for people with disabilities documentation Centre, computers, Internet access, job offer postings.