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SUPPORTEDEMPLOYMENTPROGRAM
PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONThe Association for Retarded Citizens Mid-Cities (Arc Mid-Cities), Supported Employment Program provides the consumers who are: a) eager to learn, b) willing to work hard, and, c) reliable with a work opportunity, employment in a competitive industry. It is a chance to earn increased pay and to gain new skills. Consequently, the consumers increase their marketability and social independence. Employers are, as a result, provided with a dependable source of labor and quality work, crediting well-trained job coaches who provide guaranteed quality training and quality control.
The goal of Arc Mid-Cities Supported Employment Program is to provide programs which will enable consumers to develop their highest potential for independence by acquiring vocational, social, emotional, communicative, academic, physical, and independent living skills as needed.
ROLE OF THE JOB COACH The job coach is an Arc Mid-Cities employee who accompanies the consumers to the job site. At the job-site, the job coach provides the consumers with any needed assistance or training. The job coach ensures that the job is performed according to the employer’s specifications.
PLACEMENT PROCESS Each consumer goes through a pre-vocational assessment period so that the skills required on the job match the abilities of the consumer. Every effort is made to ensure that the consumer is placed in his/her desired setting.  
TYPES OF PLACEMENTS Consumers are placed in enclaves or in individual placement positions. When the consumer is in an individual placement, the job coach provides one-on-one training and assistance until the consumer can do the job on his/her own. Once training is completed, the job coach continues to check on the consumer on a regular basis to make sure everything is going well.
ARC MID-CITIES' JOB COACH Arc Mid-Cities’ job coach accompanies consumers in enclaves on a permanent basis.
LIST OF PLACEMENTS Individual
Enclaves
JC Penney
 CLIENT ENTRANCE CRITERIA
EXIT CRITERIA Clients within the program are evaluated at regular intervals. The following are considered cause for termination:
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Aramark 
Carson 
Must be 18 years or older 
The program does not appear to be of benefit to him/her and it appears that he/she may be better served in another program. In this case, recommendations will be made to that effect