HAPPY NEW FISCAL YEAR-
We are thinking signed budget!
Well we have finished up the fiscal year of vocational services at DMC. We start the year with 166 open cases and 26 clients that have started jobs and should go 90 days in this year. The Vocational Services team will continue on with our monthly DOR newsletter as well as start our new employer newsletter in January of this year. If you would like to receive our employer newsletter please let us know so that we can get that to you. It is faxed out on a monthly basis. Our employer database has 3,000 businesses on it and is growing. We have our first annual job fair on August 22 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Garden Grove and are providing free transportation from several offices. Contact your job developer for more information.
Now we start a New Year and we look forward to moving out of start up and into serious placement. We commit to doing a better job of getting our case notes to you so that we can all have the same information as we coordinate our services to bring about successful outcomes for our mutual clients. I apologize for the times we let you down this past year.
DMC is starting the process of strategic planning for the entire organization. We will be sending out invitations to upcoming focus groups to clients and DOR counselors alike. Should you not be able to make it and still want to have input we can send you the short questionnaire for your comments so they can be included in our planning.
DMC is currently in the process of sending out client satisfaction surveys and we look forward to sharing with you some of the feedback we get on them.
The vocational service team just finished out fiscal year kick-off meeting and we wanted to share with you our discussion.
Big successes do not come easily or without setbacks. The nature of reality applies to our jobs just as it does to our personal life. Life includes pain and adversity, an uncertain future, accomplishments of any kind require discipline and no matter what you do you cannot avoid it. We find together though our hard work, love, joy, surprise, transcendence, and creativity.
We will have our conflicts, uncertainties, and disappointments. Our partnership is like us, a work in progress, we will never perfect and freeze it. Real life and all the things in it have movement. To get to the top and stay there it is not enough to just show up each day, we all need a point of view and a philosophy. We must hold to this attitude no matter how busy we become. We need to be prepared so we can handle the things that will come to us all. DMC Vocational services will strive to be positive, loyal, honest open-minded, to practice teamwork, flexibility, freedom, opportunity, patience, communication, appreciation, lots of smiles, compassion, dedication, good intentions, consistency, fairness and so on.
I have enjoyed working with DMC and DOR staff this past year- you all enrich my life and teach me so much. The unselfish sharing of our talents has and will continue to produce great success for our clients.
Happy new fiscal year,
Enid
DMC Client Success Story
El Monte is doing it again by placing residents from a women’s shelter into the work force. The rapport Angelica Fernandez, Senior Rehabilitation Counselor has established with the center and the shelter has made it possible to mainstream these women into the right job for them. These clients demonstrate a determination to become successfully employed. The training some of the ladies have received has been utilized to create a career in a related field. Some of the women also have their children housed with them and the children get to send Mom off to work each morning, which is a grand motivator. Two of these women went to work last month!!!!
Frances Curiel, Senior Employment Specialist
(714) 658-4834 / Fax: (714) 528-3641 jobdeveloper4@daylemcintoshcenter.org
Job Fair Information
Date: Thursday August 22, 2002 Time: 9 - 1pm
(there will be an employer breakfast from 8-9am)
Place: Crown Plaza Resort
12021 Harbor Blvd.
Garden Grove, CA 92840
Interpreters will be available for the following languages: ASL, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, and Spanish. Please let us know if any of your clients will need interpreter assistance in other languages. In addition, staff will be on site to assist visually impaired job seekers in filling out of forms. We will have an Assistive Technology section which will display various assistive technology devices and provide other educational information to employers that will help them in integrating disabled employees into their workplace.
Employers already confirmed:
- Trendwest Resorts
- Construction Protection Services
- America Connections
- Macy's West
- Global Computer
- Benefit Technologies Int'l Inc.
- Downey Savings
- Oxford Healthcare
- California Bank & Trust
- FedEx Ground
- Pacific Palms Conference Resort
- Time Warner Cable
- City of Long Beach
- California Dept. of Corrections
- Bally Total Fitness
- Bakery Express of Southern Cal
- Anaheim Marriott Suites
- Paychex
- EMC / Royal Alliance
- The Claims Extension
Contact your local job developer to find out more about the “Job Fair Preparation” courses being conducted to help our clients prepare for this event!
DMC Client Success Story
After the client had a bad work experience, which ended in termination from his past job, he was having a lot of difficulties with job interviews and confidence. I worked very close with the client and his family for support. Thanks to the support and help of his Santa Ana DR counselor, Marta, I was able to place the client in a full time retail job. The employer was very supportive of the client's disability and has given this client a wonderful opportunity.
Vilma Delgado, Senior Employment Specialist
(714) 658-4835 / Fax: (562) 291-0607 / jobdeveloper3@daylemcintoshcenter.org
Skills and Training – Foreign credentials and diplomas
Many clients of the Department of Rehabilitation and of Dayle McIntosh Center received some or all of their training and education in another country before moving to the United States. While some companies will accept a foreign diploma as proof of education, many will not, including government positions and government contractors. There are organizations that will evaluate the foreign diploma and issue an “equivalency” certificate. Education can be evaluated by the degree or by individual course. The three main organizations whose equivalency is most accepted are below:
World Education Services Inc. (WES)
P.O. Box 745 Old Chelsea Station
New York, NY 10113-0745
(800) 937-3895
www.wes.org / info@wes.org
Educational Credential Evaluators, Inc. (ECE)
P.O. Box 514070
Milwaukee, WI 53203-3470
(414) 289-3400
www.ece.org / eval@ece.org
American Association of Collegiate Registrars & Admissions Offices (AACRAO)
1 Dupont Circle NW, Suite 520
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 296-3359
www.aacrao.org
DMC Client Success Story
Thanks to the positive reinforcement of job club and the helpfulness of Frances' Job Club book David has gone out there and successfully interviewed and been hired by the new Home Depot opening in Laguna Niguel. RC Brian Kelly worked closely with myself and David to offer encouragement and support which helped David learn to be more positive despite his mental illness. David is very excited about his new position in the electrical department at Home Depot and we are all very excited for him!
Carolann Kollmer, Employment Specialist
(714) 658-4283 / Fax:(310) 548-9339 jobdeveloper5@daylemcintoshcenter.org
Client Job Readiness Evaluation
Job Readiness Checklist
- Is client medically stable and/or has been released by a doctor to work?
- Is client psychiatrically stable (stable medication, etc…)?
- Is client legally allowed to work in the U.S.? (client must have documentation)
- Does client have mobility skills? (client must be able to get to and from meetings with job developer and interviews with employers on their own or using Access or public transportation with as little as 2 days notice)
- Does client have proper interview clothing? (men – slacks, button-up long-sleeve shirt, blazer, tie, dark socks, dark dress shoes; women – dress skirt or slacks, long-sleeve blouse, blazer, dress shoes).
- Does client have the time to put in at least 20 hours of job search per week? (Child care issues should already be resolved and client should not be in school fulltime)
- Is client willing and able to participate fully in their job search as listed below?
- To look for work five (5) days a week, spend 10 hours per week in a career-center, develop own job leads, maintain a log of job search contacts and to follow through on all job leads provided by my job developer.
- To attend Job Club weekly.
- To be on time for all scheduled appointments and to call beforehand if I absolutely cannot make an appointment.
- To alert my Job Developer to any problems I encounter while looking for work.
- To remove blocks from my phone line that block caller ID blocked calls.
- To call my Job Placement Specialist within 24 hours of receiving a call or message from them and to call job leads within 24 hours of receiving them or receiving a call from a company.
- To let my Job Placement Specialist know of any problems on the job BEFORE I leave that employment.
DMC Job Developer contact information
Contact information for our job developers is below: Please note that some job developer’s email addresses may have changed.
Enid Awad, Vocational Manager (714) 658-4293 / vocsvsmanager@daylemcintoshcenter.org
Frances Curiel, Senior Employment Specialist
(Spanish Speaking clients) (714) 658-4834 / Fax: (714) 528-3641 jobdeveloper4@daylemcintoshcenter.org
Vilma Delgado, Senior Employment Specialist
(Spanish Speaking clients) (714) 658-4835 / Fax: (562) 291-0607 jobdeveloper3@daylemcintoshcenter.org
Dolores Kollmer, Senior Employment Specialist
(Visually Impaired clients) (714) 658-4275 / Fax: (310) 548-9339 jobdeveloper2@daylemcintoshcenter.org
Thuy Tran, Employment Specialist
(Vietnamese Speaking clients) (714) 658-4290 / Fax: (562) 951-0305 ThuyDMC@aol.com
Manny Ziegler, Senior Employment Specialist
(Visually Impaired clients) (714) 658-4281 / Fax:(310) 837-2754 jobdeveloper1@daylemcintoshcenter.org
Carolann Kollmer, Employment Specialist
(Generalist caseload on fee-for-service basis)(310) 927-3432 / (714) 658-4283 / Fax:(310) 548-9339 jobdeveloper5@daylemcintoshcenter.org
