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    Consumer Services

    Benefits Information - Disability Resources
  • Social Security Administration
    This worksite provides information for youth with disabilities, employers, beneficiaries, service providers, and advocates on employment of Social Security beneficiaries.
  • Benefits Planning, Assistance and Outreach
    The Benefits Planning, Assistance and Outreach goal is to assist individuals with disabilities in making informed choices about employment and work incentives.
  • Your Ticket To Work
    A comprehensive national initiative designed to assist Social Security beneficiaries with disabilities to find employment, vocational rehabilitation, and other support services from public and private providers.
  • Comprehensive Health and Earnings Query
    Understanding how work affects your eligibility for disability programs. The Comprehensive Health and Earnings Query is an easy and free way to learn more about your transition to work and how benefits may be affected.
  • PASS
    Within this website you will find a detailed explanation of the PASS program as well as a helpful tutorial on completing the application including the online version of the form that can be printed or saved.

    • Accessibility at Work - Disability Resources
  • UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE JOBNET WORKSTATIONS LOCATED AT OAWDC

    Would you or someone you know benefit?

    • Are you or someone you know visually impaired?
    • Are you or someone you know unable to read the printed word?
    • Do you or someone you know have limited hand function?
    • Do you or someone you know have limited mobility?

    If you answered yes to any of the questions above, you probably can benefit from these workstations.

    Who will benefit?

    • No sight or limited sight;
    • No hand function or limited hand function;
    • The ability to understand spoken English but are unable to read English;
    • Pain when using a mouse;
    • Limited mobility and use a wheel chair or a scooter.

    The traditional touchscreen JobNet may benefit other jobseekers including the hard of hearing and deaf.

  • Great Lakes ADA Center
    Offers options for visitors with low vision and other non-traditional devices for browsing such as hand held devices or TV based systems – provides technical assistance and training to businesses and people with disabilities regarding Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA)
  • Disability Resources Employment
    Non-profit organization established to promote and improve awareness, availability, and accessibility of information that can help people with disabilities live, learn, love, work, and play independently. Contains links to information on jobs – how do you get them, and what you can do to improve your chances
  • Job Accomodations
    This is a free consulting service that provides information about job accommodations, ADA, and the employability of people with disabilities.
  • DWD Acessibility Resources
    This site provides accessibility resources and contacts by area, category, city, and organization. It also gives a detailed description of the universally accessible jobnet workstation.
  • Options for Independent Living
    Options for Independent Living is a non-profit organization committed to empowering people with disabilities to lead independent and productive lives in their community
  • Psychiatric Disability
    An interactive and informative website for people with a psychiatric condition that addresses issues and reasonable accommodations related to school and work.
  • Great Lakes ADA
    The Great Lakes Accessible IT Initiative completes website accessibility evaluations on request. Web pages will be evaluated against a subset of the industry-standard Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act Standards and the Web Accessibility Initiative Guidelines (WAI). They will test your more commonly used pages (sampling test is free ), however, if you want a detailed report (i.e. comprehensive test) they do charge a fee
  • Vocational Rehabilitation
    Department of Vocational Rehabilitation offers a full array of employment services for people with disabilities. Oshkosh office located at the Oshkosh Area Workforce Development Center, 315 Algoma Blvd. Oshkosh, WI or call 232-6250
  • Sensory Disability
    Provides information, referral, support and training for the deaf and hard of hearing.
  • Job Access
    The goal of job access is to enable people with disabilities to enhance their professional lives by providing a dedicated system for finding employment by working with companies, government and non profits to employ people with disabilities. By posting job opportunities with job access employers exhibit an open door policy.
  • Recruit Ability
    Online targeted recruiting site that effectively connects proactive employers with job seekers.



    • Oshkosh Area Workforce Development Center
    Phone (920) 232-6200
    Fax (920) 232-6242
    TDD 1 (800) 947-3529
    315 Algoma Blvd.
    Oshkosh WI 54901
    info@oshkoshwdc.com