A Perfect Tool for: Vocational Rehabilitation, Employment/Training, Welfare to Work, Secondary Special Education, Post Corrections, School to Work.

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What is WorkPlace Mentor?

WorkPlace Mentor is a comprehensive system for planning and conducting effective community-based assessments and attaining gainful employment for individuals with special needs or limited work histories. The process relies upon intelligent database software that facilitates objective and targeted evaluation, the matching of critical consumer characteristics with job demands, and systematic collaboration between practitioner and consumer. Further, WorkPlace Mentor includes a multimedia training CD-ROM that guides novice and experienced practitioners through the planning and execution of situational assessment activities and the development of effective individualized employment plans.

WorkPlace Mentor was funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Rehabilitation Services Administration and National Institute for Disabilities and Rehabilitation Research.

The WorkPlace Mentor Model - A Six-Step Process

Step #1: Job Analysis

The WorkPlace Mentor job analysis and data collection process creates a customized job bank. Each job analysis addresses functional demands, required worker capabilities, essential preference and interest factors, and potential supports or accommodations at the worksite.

Step #2: Consumer Profile

The Consumer Profile is used to gather and organize baseline information about the consumer. This information includes goals, interests, preferences, functional capacities and limitations, as well as supports and accommodations that may be required in order to achieve employment goals.

Step #3: Profile Matching& Assessment Planning

WorkPlace Mentor’s automated profile matching identifies viable job tryouts or situational assessment opportunities in your job bank, and then pinpoints critical evaluation issues that must be considered as an individualized assessment plan is developed for a consumer.

Step #4: Observations and Strategies

Once the situational assessment starts, detailed observational data is captured and organized on the consumer’s job performance, behavior, expressed interests, and impact of accommodations and supports.

Step #5: Summary and Priorities

After performance and behavioral observations have been gathered, WorkPlace Mentor then organizes, summarizes and prioritizes information on consumer assets, functional gaps, expressed interests, and resources that might support successful employment planning.

Step #6: Individualized Plan

The goals and strategies identified in Step #5 are imported with a click of the mouse. You then access detailed information on who will be responsible for achieving which goals, what are the expected outcomes, how the goals will be achieved, when the goals should be achieved, and why the defined goals have been targeted. You are now in a position to develop a consumer’s individualized plan to achieve measurable performance outcomes.

Successful Outcomes for All Stakeholders…

For Consumers… A consumer-centered process that yields a satisfying job that can be performed competently.

For Employers… Qualified, productive and dependable workers who are able to perform essential job functions.

For Funding Sources… Higher placement and retention rates.

For Practitioners… A system that builds critical core competencies, skills, and self-confidence in planning and conducting situational assessments.

For Your Organization… Helps you fulfill your contractual obligations and strengthen relationships with your business partners.