one-on-one coaching
A job coach is individually assigned to a client, providing personalized support and guidance at the training or placement site.
Skill development
Clients will acquire essential interpersonal skills that enable them to integrate effectively and be recognized as valuable contributors within the community workforce.
personal Accountability
Clients will cultivate self-regulation skills that foster a sense of personal accountability and empower them to take ownership of their actions.
Big Lake Country Club’s supported employment program consists of training a client by an approved specialist, who uses structured techniques to aid the client conducting a selected task and learn the interpersonal
skills necessary to be accepted as a worker at the job site and in related community contacts. Through supported employment, a qualified individual (job coach) works directly with our clients in a training or placement site to help
them learn the specific requirements of a job/task; learn work-related activities and requirements such as time and attendance rules; and learn appropriate work-related (including social) behaviors when dealing with supervisors
and co-workers. By placing a client directly in a job with the hands-on assistance of a job coach, areas of vocational and personal strength and weakness become apparent early in the process and are based on actual, not projected or
simulated experience; the client is able to receive immediate feedback, assistance, and follow-up from the support person; and an employer is able to take on and observe the progress of the consumer without a full commitment of personnel
resources in the beginning of the process.