Works to provide appropriate and comprehensive services to Mississippians with disabilities in a timely and effective manner. Programs and services assist individuals with disabilities to gain employment, retain employment and/or to live more independently.
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Provides specialized services for persons over 60 including case management, adult day care programs, housing services, senior employment programs, transportation services, in-home services, healthcare and advocacy services.
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Designed to increase opportunities and choices for Social Security disability beneficiaries in obtaining employment, vocational rehabilitation (VR) and other support services from public and private providers, employers and other organizations.
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Each center provides career counseling, resume assistance, direct job placement, classroom and on-the-job training, and information about local and national labor markets and unemployment compensation.
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Provides services to enable all Social Security beneficiaries with disabilities (including transition-to-work aged youth) to make informed choices about work, including individualized work incentives planning and other assistance services.
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Ensures the provision of technology-related services for Mississippians with disabilities by increasing the awareness of and access to assistive technology.
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Information on Mississippi's SBDCs, which offer one-stop assistance to individuals and small businesses by providing information and guidance in central and easily accessible branch locations. Web site includes contact information for regional SBDCs throughout the state.
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Assists veterans and their dependents in securing federal and state benefits or preferences in Mississippi to which they may be entitled, including employment and health benefits.
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If you receive disability benefits from the Social Security Administration and are interested in working or learning more about how working would affect your benefits, you can get help from a community organization known as a Work Incentive Planning and Assistance (WIPA) project.
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Provides services to assist legally blind individuals adjust to their blindness by becoming more able to care for their specific needs.
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