Trauma-Informed Healing Ecosystem (TIHE) Baltimore
Baltimore engages credible intergenerational messengers in community in healing-centered, antiracist education to foster restorative and collective healing.
3 Steps In 5 Weeks
Employers recognize the importance of social and emotional competencies as AI integrates into the workplace. Investing in talent development to enhance emotional intelligence and other human-centric softskills gives workers a competitive edge. Trauma-informed soft skills promote healing from adversity, enhancing social and emotional learning (SEL). In today’s AI-driven world, upskilling in emotional regulation and psychological safety boosts creativity, resilience, and fosters safe, inclusive work environments.
3 Steps in 5 Weeks Workforce Engagement & Supports is a paid trauma-informed program facilitating employment gains and advancement within the competitive job market.
GoodLife Financial Wellness
Financial wellness is crucial for overall well-being and is closely tied to employment success. Effective money management acts as self-care, alleviating financial stress and contributing to optimal performance in both personal and professional spheres.
GoodLife Financial Wellness equips participants with financial education as a self-care tool to alleviate financial stress, empower them in managing personal finances, and break the cycle of poverty for sustained independent living.
Community Development Services (CDS)
Customized and person-centered support for individuals with disabilities that promote independence and community involvement. Our CDS focus on soft skills, social and emotional learning (SEL), and community integration, guided by principles of self-determination and person-centered planning.
Outreach
Peer Navigators with lived experiences for consumers conduct assertive engagement and outreach to enroll eligible persons.
Vocational Assessment
Vocational assessment of an individual’s strengths, skills, interests, preferences, support system, resources, prior work experience, support needs, aspirations, and other factors that may impact employment.
Individual Vocational Planning (IVP)
Development of an Individualized Vocational Plan, or, (IVP) that utilizes synthesized information from the vocational assessment and specifies goals, objectives, and interventions that support the individual to obtain, maintain, and/or advance in competitive employment.
Eligibility Determination
Eligibility determination and coordination with referral entities, including assisting individuals to apply to the Maryland Dept. of Education Division of Rehabilitation Services (DORS) to determine their eligibility for employment services.
Disability
Disclosure Support
Disability disclosure support includes discussions about risks and benefits and supporting individuals in making an informed choice regarding whether, how, and when to disclose a disability to an employer or potential employer.
Entitlements Education
Entitlements education (when applicable) should include a discussion of the individual’s current federal and state benefits, the potential impact of work earnings on those benefits, and applicable work incentives.
Job Development
Job development includes identifying potential job leads based on the individual’s expressed preferences and in accordance with the individual's vocational plan, or IVP, assistance with job applications; resume development; interview preparation, and assistance, with employer advocacy (if the individual has chosen to disclose); and other supports necessary to secure employment.
Job Placement
Job placement includes assisting the individual in negotiating a mutually acceptable job offer with the employer and advocating for the terms and conditions of employment, including any reasonable accommodations and adaptations requested by the individual.
Job Coaching
Intensive job coaching (on and/or off the job site, dependent upon the individual’s disclosure preference) assists the individual in preserving the job placement, resolving employment crises, and stabilizing the employment situation for continuing employment. In addition to employer education and advocacy, mobility skills training and other support services are needed to promote job stability and social integration within the employment environment.
Our Journey to Advancing the Marginalized Workforce
