One of Oregon’s fastest growing providers
Currently contracted In the following counties:
Josephine, Jackson, Douglas, Lane, Linn, Benton, Yamhill, Polk, Marion, Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas
Vocational Rehabilitation
Career Exploration
Utilizes a wide variety of vocational activities to help identify areas of employment interest along with associated strengths and concerns, and this service can include job shadows, informational interviews, labor market surveys, and other job related experiences
Community Based Work Assessment
Occur at integrated employment sites, individually developed to match one’s vocational interests and needs
Targeted Vocational Assessment
With a specific work goal, this service looks at skills and tasks necessary for success in the desired employment setting
Job Search Assistance
Limited job search assistance to initiate and help facilitate one’s use of community resources in their independent job search
Job Development & Retention
Offered as part of an individual’s Vocational Rehabilitation services - Job Developers will search, obtain, and help clients maintain employment stability through a 90-day retention period
Portfolio / Job Search Skills
Creation of a Master Application, a professional resume & cover letter, interview skill building, mock interviews and interview prep and support, thank you letters post interview overview
Job Coaching
Provides necessary prompts, behavior supports, assists in developing natural supports for long term success and working with employer to ensure client success
“We go beyond expectations ensuring our clients achieve job stability and personal growth”
Belinda Lopez
Roseburg Job Coach
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Provider Services
Individual Supported Employment - Job Coaching
Assist and maintain individualized employment stability in an integrated setting in the community
Individual Supported Employment - Job Development
Support to identify and obtain a job in an integrated employment setting in the general workforce
Discovery
A person-centered, comprehensive profile to discover strengths, interests and abilities. Includes work related activities to discover strengths, interests and abilities, including volunteer positions, and work-experience positions
Transportation
AWS has a transportation endorsement and is able to transport clients to and from their work site
Employment Path
Training and skill development for general or non-job-task-specific strengths and skills. To improve an individual’s employability in the general workforce through learning and work experiences or volunteer opportunities
Helping individuals reach all of their hopes and dreams
“They view barriers to employment as opportunities and strengths rather than obstacles”
“Sometimes taking the first step is the hardest. Advantage Working Solutions has allowed me the opportunity to help individuals reach all of their hopes and dreams of becoming part of the workforce.”
May van Breemen
Job Developer
Steve Baer
Transition Teacher, Beaverton School District
Our clients are our most valuable asset
We believe our clients to be our most valuable asset. We attribute our success as an organization in significant part to our ability to provide workforce support in line with the needs of the employer. We pride ourselves in both supporting and helping to maintain a motivated and productive team member. We hope to assist you in becoming your most productive and successful self for greater independence.
Joe Maxey - Founder and Director of Advantage Working Solutions
“I love encouraging people to form bonds in the community while helping them feel great about the job they are doing”
Tara Cook
Program Manager
“with a little guidance and given the chance, everyone has the talent and skills to become successful”
At AWS, we are helping to get individuals to achieve and become what we know that they can. Not everyone can see the potential in individuals that experience barriers, but we do! We know that with a little guidance and given the chance, everyone has talents and skills that can help them become successful in the workplace.
Jill Fischer
Business Development Manager
Advantage Working Solutions, LLC
PO Box 597, Oakland, OR 97462
(800) 610-3680