Workforce Development Program

In partnership with The Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services, 
we provide services throughout eight counties in West Alabama.

Vocational Services:
205-759-1211 ext. 240

Supported Employment:
Bettye Cleveland
205-759-1211 ext. 258

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Vocational Evaluations to help individuals determine the type of job they could do today, or a career path they may work toward with additional training.

Job Development for persons with disabilities.  Job Developers work with individuals to find employment in their community.

Supported Employment (Bibb, Pickens, and Tuscaloosa only). Providing on-site job coaches for the more severely disabled to ensure success on the job.

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ESWA’s Workforce Development Program provides a wide range of activities and programs designed to get individuals to work. Through the three prongs of this program: Vocational Services, Supported Employment Services, and Transportation Services, ESWA averages putting over 100 individuals in the workforce each year.  

The Vocational Services Program closes the gap between disabled and non-disabled individuals and creates, sustains, and retains a viable workforce that can support current and future business and industry. This program matches people with disabilities who want to be productive members of the workforce with employment suited for their skills. Whether the individual is seeking first-time employment, re-employment at a new job, or help refocusing his or her career path, ESWA’s employment specialists provide resources, and advocacy for the clients, matching them with jobs needed to be filled. Our clients are working, productive community members, and employers are confident that they have competent, skilled, employees who are recommended and overseen by ESWA.  

The Supported Employment Program is much like the Vocational Services Program with the addition that this program provides a job coach to the individual who needs additional assistance. Job coaches provide one-on-one, supervised, on-site training to the individual, teaching them the skills needed to complete their job. Job coaches oversee daily the individual at their place of employment until the individual can work independently.