How Can Habilitation Help with Finding a Job?
People with developmental disabilities can still live normal, full lives, but they may need a little bit of extra help in order to make that happen. Residential habilitation can help your family member to find a job that meets her needs and that she enjoys. Here are just a few of the ways that habilitation can make a difference in your family member’s job search.
Refining the Employment Goal
Just getting a job is one type of goal, but it might need to be narrowed down a bit. If your family member doesn’t know what type of job she wants, for instance, it can help to refine that goal. Exploring what she intends to do, going to career fairs, and learning more about various types of jobs can be really helpful for her.
Exploring Job Opportunities and Shadowing Workers with Residential Habilitation
Once the goal is refined, it can help a lot for your family member to have help exploring those job opportunities further. It may even be possible for your family member to shadow someone who is already doing that type of job and therefore learn even more about what might be expected. This can help your family member to get a realistic idea of what work and having a job may be like.
Learning about Benefits, Financial Management, and More
There’s much more to jobs than just showing up and working, too. There are benefits, large and small, and managing that paycheck as it comes in is another skill that your family member needs to learn. All of this can happen with repetition and with someone helping her to learn how this works and what she needs to do.
Going through the Process of Finding a Job
The actual process of finding a job is something that isn’t exactly intuitive, either. It helps to have someone walking your family member through the process and making sure that she’s learning what to do along the way. Once your family member does get hired, it can be confusing to make sure that she onboards properly, too. All of that is something that residential habilitation experts can roleplay with her beforehand.
Residential habilitation can help your family member with this goal and with so many more. If you or she are uncertain about what her goals should be, they can help with that, too. Habilitation is there to help your family member to be able to get the type of job that she needs and wants.
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As a practicing Registered Nurse, Etelka was keenly aware of a void in quality patient care that could be provided in the home. She embarked upon a journey to develop a home health care agency that would exceed all expectations and become a trusted partner to physicians and patients.
A Distinguished Career From Nurse to Director of Nursing to President of Home Services Unlimited
Etelka’s distinguished career followed a logical progression to her position as President of Home Services Unlimited. She graduated as a nurse practitioner with a Bachelor of Nursing (RN) in 1972 from Meshgorya University in the Ukraine, close to where she lived with her family. She married her husband Phil in 1973 and decided in 1977 that they would relocate to the United States to be closer to family and to come to this land of opportunity. With an eagerness to continue her budding career, Etelka sat for and passed her Boards in the U.S. in 1979.
A Love and Talent for Working with the Elderly
Etelka began her nursing career in the U.S. at Colonial Crest, now part of Golden Living, where shewasthe In-service Coordinator, the Director of Training and Education and Director of Nursing, a position she occupied for several years.
With a group of partners, she co-founded Adept Corporation, which operated group homes for the mentally challenged. The business was successful and in 1996, Etelka sold her share to return to her roots, caring for the elderly.
In January of 1997, Etelka opened Home Services Unlimited as a fully licensed business to provide home health care. In her quest to learn to do better for her patients, she had already obtained a Masters in Healthcare Administration (MHA) in May of 1990 from the College of St. Francis. As President of Home Services Unlimited, Inc., Etelka guides the trusted, experienced care model Home Services Unlimited uses to continue providing excellent home health care.
Giving Back to the Community of Indianapolis
Volunteering for community services is a high priority for Etelka. Her memberships include the Indiana Association of Rehabilitation Facilities, Executive Women in Health Care and the Indiana Association for Home and Hospice Care, where she is a member of the Board of Directors.
Etelka has also served on the Board of Directors with Hooverwood Home, a highly regarded geriatric facility, since 1997 and as the President for 2005-2006. Through her community work, she has received several awards and accolades, including the Nora McFarland award in 2002, from the Indiana Association of Home and Hospice Care.
Etelka was honored as a “Health Care Hero” by the Indianapolis Business Journal. The issue can be read online here:
http://mags.ibj.com/activemagazine/welcome/html/ibjhch.html.
After clicking on the link, then click on the image of the issue’s front page. After that, you can browse through the issue or click in a box near the top of your internet browser to adjust the page to 17, which is where Etelka’s article appears.
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