Supported Employment Training Project
a project of the Human Development Institute at the University of Kentucky
About Us
Having a job represents much more than earning a salary. Employment, including the kind of work one performs, influences one’s personal identity, sense of belonging, and place in the world. Furthermore, employment represents one primary way of expressing the inherent human need to contribute – doing something that matters. Yet all too often the significance of employment for people with disabilities has been unrecognized, ignored, or minimized.
Supported employment is designed to promote personalized employment opportunities for people with disabilities when they need support to:
- Discover personal interests and contributions,
- Find or negotiate a job that fits things people like to do and do well,
- Become established as valued employees; and
- Pursue job advancements
Kentucky is an Employment First State. We want to ensure that all Kentuckians with disabilities, regardless the impact of disability, have access to employment as the first and preferred option.
Quick Look
- Pre-Vocational Services (PDF)
- Applying to Become an OVR Vendor – CRP (PDF)
- Supported Employment Mentoring Initiative
- SE Core Training Dates
- 2023 HDI Supported Employment Leadership Series
- Employment Checklists: Helping Families and Youth Plan for Employment
- Employment First Kentucky
- APSE – Employment First
- Information for Job Seekers & Families
- Updated OVR Supported Employment Service Fee Memo – Requirements/Payments – Revised 12/21/2020 (PDF)
- ODEP Customized Employment Info
- KY DB 101 – 4th Monday of each month – 12:30 pm-1:00 pm ET – Click on the Zoom link