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Vocational Rehabilitation


Hope Network Rehabilitation Services provides opportunities for people with disabilities to pursue employment. By offering various assessments, job coaching, and job training and placement, individuals are able to identify career directions, enhance skill sets, and develop accommodations that allow them to successfully participate in the workplace. 

Hope Network also encourages employers to diversify their workforce by demonstrating that disabilities are not a barrier to employment. Services useful to employers are:

Functional Capacity Evaluations: Determine an individual’s ability to return to work and in what capacity they can do so

Pre-Work Screening: Determine a person’s ability to perform the physical requirements of a specific job

Work Conditioning: Facilitates an employee’s ability to return to work when physical limitations exist

Functional Job Analysis: Provides a safe and ADA-compliant job description

Forensic Assessment: Offers labor market surveys, pre and post-injury wage loss analysis, and vocational expert testimony

Hope Network Rehabilitation Services’ Workforce Development program is available throughout Michigan. If you would like more information on these opportunities, Ask Jenny.

   
Hope Network’s President Receives Award from Brain Injury Association of Michigan
2/22/2012
Phillip W. Weaver, President and CEO of Hope Network, is the recipient of the Brain Injury Association of Michigan’s (BIAMI) Community Service and Leadership Award. This award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to improving the lives of people affected by brain injury.

Beyond the Clinic: Treatment Returns Traumatic Brain Injury Patients to the Great Outdoors
11/8/2011
(Reprinted from the Grand Rapids Press) At the age of 24, Keith Knuth suffered a traumatic brain injury that significantly affected his mobility and left him dependent on a wheelchair.
Like many Michigan residents, Knuth was an avid hunter and all around sportsman prior to his accident, but his injuries made him wonder whether he would ever pursue his hobby again.
Six months into his rehabilitation, Knuth was introduced to Scott Fletcher and the Outdoor Recreation Program at Hope Network. The program offers people who have limitations after severe accident or injury an opportunity to relearn skills that will allow them to continue participating in outdoor activities.

Holland's Jon Turner to Do Ironman Years After Debilitating Crash
7/21/2011
From the Holland Sentinel | Sitting in a wheelchair next to his mother at Mary Free Bed, Jon Turner was at the lowest point in his recovery from the crash.

The Holland native who now lives in Grandville shifted his focus to the man who was learning how to walk again.

That man had fallen about three feet from a step stool and landed on his neck, while Turner had been involved in a car wreck so powerful it hurled the engine block 10 feet away.