| Programs & Services |
 Dreamcatchers Empowerment Network helps clients explore their dreams of becoming employed and self-sufficient through programs in Humboldt, Napa and Solano counties. We work in cooperation with local businesses, organizations and agencies to provide the necessary services that offer our clients the opportunity to become permanently employed.
We assess our clients' employment strengths and weaknesses within a supportive and controlled environment; measure basic work skills, behaviors and interpersonal skills in a simulated environment; and provide specific training and tools in order make them employable in the competitive marketplace.
C L I E N T S E R V I C E S
Vocational Assessment - Dreamcatchers administers a comprehensive battery of work samples and interest inventories to assess the basic work skills, work habits, work tolerances, work behaviors, and interpersonal skills of clients in a simulated work environment.
External Situational Assessment - Dreamcatchers provides pre-plan and post-plan external situational assessments. Pre-plan assessments are a community-based service used to identify each client's current level of employability. We place the client in a safe, supervised and supported real work environment within the community, with a Dreamcatchers staff member acting as
 the hands-on trainer for the client. Assessments identify strengths and barriers for a specific employment site in order to enhance job placement and retention.
Work Adjustment - Work adjustment programs can be conducted within in a group or on an individual basis. The group program places clients in a supported group setting at a work site directed by Dreamcatchers staff. We utilize real work situations to help clients understand the meaning, value and demands of a job and to establish skills, attitudes, personal characteristics, and appropriate work behaviors that can lead to a successful and sustained employment experience. An individual work adjustment program is for clients who have been placed in a community-based job setting and are working with employees. Developed with the Department of Rehabilitation counselor, the client and a Dreamcatchers staff member, this program identifies specific barriers to employment that the client will focus on during the work adjustment period.
Employment Preparation - These services prepare clients for employment with an organized, structured curriculum that provides training on an individual basis, which is directed by client need and Department of Rehabilitation requests.
Job Development - We provide structured, systematic job development and placement services for clients. The client directs the job development process by specifying the general course of the job search, while Dreamcatchers conducts a targeted job search in order to accommodate individual client desires.
 Job Coaching - We provide individual client assistance and support on or off the job for employment-related activities. This assists clients who are adjusting to a job and includes transportation training, onsite job orientation, hands-on training at the worksite and job task analysis.
Placement/Follow-Up - After a client's job placement, employment specialists maintain employer contact to ensure client progress, employer satisfaction and job success. This includes telephone calls, personal visits or other means of contact to support the client's continued employment. |
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