Has anyone used this service? What all can they offer for a person with schizophrenia?
I tried once but didn’t follow thru the whole way I felt disrespected in a way at the time they asked a million questions then had me doing these test over and over stuff so simple I felt insulted and I never went back
@anon30680549 Did they ever tell you how you could be helped? Or did they only test you?
They did give my friends brother a job and he’s really slow (not to offend anyone) they had him doing janitorial work at the federal building in my town
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Well they explained how working affects social security benefits and they said they would help with creating a resume and that’s as far as I got but they eventually get you a job from what I hear if you go thru the steps they got
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Ok. I hope someone who went through the whole process responds. Thanks for letting me know what you know.
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Yep no problem lol
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Voc Rehab helped me quite a bit. Found me a good job.
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They were no help to me at all. I did better on my own.
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@Breeze, did they help you find a job that worked with any disabilities or limitations you had? Were any accommodations made for you at your job? If so, what were they?
I just needed a job and they got me one. By then I was pretty well stabilized.
They can also send you off to school.
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I went through Vocational Rehab services and all they did was test me. They found out that I work extremely slowly. And nothing happened after that.
I reached out to OVR because I wanted training to refresh my computer skills and maybe get an MBA. They told me they won’t train or otherwise educate me if I already have a degree. I was then told that, given my disabilities (MI only- she didn’t even mention the physical ones), I was pretty much a lost cause. I spent the day crying and feeling so helpless. I have dreams; I want to work, and they refused to help me.
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@Happy_H, they told me the same thing. Even though I had a bachelor’s degree in nursing, and I didn’t have a license in nursing, and so the degree was worthless, they told me they wouldn’t educate me for another degree. I just gave up after that.
@SkinnyMe Yep, they suck. Even if they’d only help me update my MS Office skills, that would have been great. But she shut down that idea, then crushed my goals by telling me I’d never be able to get a job/ keep a job because I was so messed up. How, exactly, is that helping people?
@SkinnyMe So if they don’t like your skill set or speed they don’t help you?
@Happy_H, they literally said they wouldn’t help you find a job?
In my experience, they’re more willing to work with physical disabilities than mental ones. I wanted training to become a cake decorator. A simple, three week course. They wouldn’t do it, and said it was an unrealistic goal for me. Another girl I know who was a nurse before a bad back injury got full tuition to get a degree in social work.
For the record, I made my own way, and now run an entire department at a local nonprofit.
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I was in one in the last county I was in where they offered it. 5 days a week available to bus out, they pick you up at home and it’s 9-1:30. You pick a unit and work on it half the day, I always picked cooking and helped cook the lunch meal for everyone.
I found it helpful because it felt like I was working and it gave me a schedule. Pity they don’t offer a service like this in my current county.
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@Ninjastar That’s so great that you overcame that. My husband and I are in dire straights financially so I need to make some money. But according to my Dr, husband, and counselor, I’m still delusional, paranoid, and hallucinating. I would need help finding appropriate work where I’m not freaking out about things going on around me. I wonder if there’s a way to report discrimination against them.
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