Vocational Rehabilitation
support
When a person wants to work, even though the world has labeled them disabled, the person should have all resources available to them, to assure success.
The most gainfully employed and happy blind and visually impaired individuals are successful for a couple of reasons.
The first reason is because the individual has received adequate training and/or funding to help them prosper in their new found life.
The second ingredient to the "winning" scenario, is having a true passion for what a person is working at.
Even sighted, fully able people have a hard time excelling if they don't love what they do.
Many VIPs (Visually Impaired Persons) lack the self confidence needed to begin a brand new career on top of being blind doing it.
It is not worth the effort, they may think.
For most blind and visually impaired individuals, the state's Division of Blind Services or other programs offer a very limited amount of vocational choices.
See our laws and advocacy page to learn about your rights dealing with employment and the disabled.
Laws and advocacy
*Telecommuting or Virtual Assistance
Tele Work Tools
* Enable America Logo
Enable America
* Hire Disability Solutions
"We empower companies to promote inclusion of people with disabilities in the workplace, while providing workers who have disabilities with opportunities
to succeed."
Hire Disability Solutions
* Helping The Blind And Visually Impaired - Employment
This website has an extensive list of resources for finding employment and it is updated regularly.
Helping The Blind And Visually Impaired - Employment
Employment Training
Customer Service
* A great place to start if you feel you are ready to go back to work is:
NTI/IRS
* Visual Innovations & Solutions
Providing Technology and working skills to the blind, visually impaired, and disabled.
Technology For The Blind, Visually Impaired, and the Disabled
Our Mission Statement is to provide legally blind, visually impaired, and disabled person’s accessibility to adaptive technology, employment resources,
vocational training, and self-advocacy.
VisualInnovations.org
* Another very successful program can be found with:
National Telecommuting Institute, Inc.
* Another wide range of positions are available at:
Envision jobs for the blind
To learn more, please call (316) 425-7150
toll free (888) 425-7072,
fax (316) 267-4312,
or e-mail
goodjobs@envisionus.com.
* Many states work with a program offered through the South Carolina Commission for the blind which puts visually impaired computer users back to work
"
SCCB has built and developed an efficient Telecommunication Training Center . They have also successfully placed several consumers as reservation agents with ANC Rental Corporation (now Vanguard USA Car Rental), the company which operates Alamo and National Car Rental. ..."
"... a guarantee that every consumer who successfully completes the program will be offered a position in one of its reservation centers
... home Mortgage industry
... communications and entertainment industries ... the shipping industry,...all as customer service agents"
Check it out at:
http://www.sccb.state.sc.us/faqs Frequently Asked Questions
To find out more about this highly successful program contact:
Ed Bible, Director of Training & Employment
P O Box 2467
Columbia, SC 29202
Toll Free in SC: 1-800-922-2222
Direct Phone Number: (803) 898-8786
Fax: (803) 898-8882
E-Mail: ebible@sccb.sc.gov
ebible@sccb.sc.gov
* Many states work with a program called Arise which puts visually impaired computer users back to work
"Since Arise Virtual Solutions, Inc. was founded as Willow CSN Incorporated in 1997, the home-based sales, customer service and technical support concepts
have become some of the fastest-growing business segments in America. ..."
"... Homeshoring... Virtual Call Center... Work From Home...
However you define this growing trend, Arise has set the standard providing thousands of home based businesses with the freedom to answer calls, e-mail
and chat requests for prestigious U.S. and global companies."
Check it out at:
Willows now Arise
Hospitality Industry
* The Hospitality field also puts many blind and handicapped people to work in the service industry.
* Check it out at:
Hands On Education
Another in Buffalo NY.:
Statler Center
Marketing
* Marketing is a trend that is also taking hold among the blind community.
Learning to effectively use the phone and internet to prospect and close qualified buyers in the market is a special skill, taught best by the best.
A team that I know can help you to develop this great talent can be found here:
Inspiration Marketing
Virtual Assistance
* Virtual Assistance is a promising field for competent business managers, administrative assistants, writers, a variety of specialties are practiced in the field of virtual assistance.
Check it out at
Assist University
I am quite successful in my business of virtual assistance
HeidiHockman.com
Coaching
* Have you ever dreamed of becoming a coach in the field of your expertise? It's a possibility!
Check it out at
Coach University
Writing
* How about becoming that writer that lives inside!
Check it out at
Write Well University
There are countless numbers of possibilities if you set your mind on what you dream
Please contact us with what your craziest dream of accomplishment in life might be
We will put you in contact with a blind or visually impaired individual currently working in the field of your choice from our database to help you in the direction you could take
A new day is dawning
This page soon will contain
valuable information not previously available to
the vision impaired community.
We are working hard to make
this site as complete and truly helpful as
possible. In the next couple of weeks you will
see this unfold. Please check back often for
updates.
If you have helpful
information or questions
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