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Employment Services
Employment Services focuses on employment and job training programs that offer diverse work,
advancement opportunities, and support services to enhance the employability of people with disabilities.

 

Services Provided
  • Vocational Training Programs
  • Semi-Competitive Work Services
  • Professional Support Services Available
    • Employment Services Assistance
    • Coordination of services and referrals as needed
  • Community Employment Opportunities

Persons Served

  • Adults age 16 or older with developmental or other disabilities

General Admission Criteria  

  • Age 16 or older

  • Department of Elementary and Secondary Education certification or other funding source identified

  • Behaviorally and medically stable with supports available

  • Approval of Admissions/Placement/Suspension Committee

  • Aptitude to learn new skills and desire to work competitively

How to Apply                                                                               

  • Contact Sonia at Extension 398 at either our Sedalia facility
    at 660-826-4400 or our Marshall facility at 660-886-4261 to discuss
    employment opportunities.
Work Center                                                                           

The work center of Cooperative Workshops, Inc. (CWI) provides jobs for people with disabilities. Employees are given opportunities to develop employment goals. They are challenged to develop skills in appropriate areas (vocational, social and personal) to enhance employability either in CWI or in competitive jobs. Staff work with employees to help them reach their desired level of employment. Types of jobs offered at the work center include:
  • Manufacturing
  • Assembling
  • Packaging
  • Sewing
  • Work Crew opportunities
  • Government and commercial contracting

CWI maintains a system of quality assurance to guarantee the best workmanship in all products and to provide customer satisfaction. 
    
How employees benefit from CWI...

• Employees will work in a respectful and safe environment.
• Support and training will be provided for each employee to help develop positive work behaviors.
• Health, personal, financial, transportation and advocacy services will also be provided.
• We have a great staff that will work cooperatively with parents, guardians, community support staff and employees.
 


 
  Work Crews

CWI Work Crews provide employment for individuals with disabilities in the community. Supervisors and Trainers assist the employees and teach job skills in  an industrial environment.

Work Crews offer the following on-site services:

Lawn Care Capabilities
  • Cut & trim
  • Clean-up
  • Push mowers
  • Gas trimmers
  • Riding tractors
  • Zero turn mowers
  • Tractor with a brush hog
  • Chipper/shredder

Small Landscaping

  • Flowers
  • Shrubs - plant or trim
  • Landscape timbers
  • Lay mulch
  • Cut or trim trees


     

Lawn care work crew
Lawn care


Operate Equipment
  • Forklift
  • Floor scrubber
  • Woodworking
  • Pallet jacks
  • Cardboard baler
  • Stretchwrap equipment
  • Banding machine   
     

Limited Painting

Snow Removal

Parking Lot Clean-Up






 


Industrial work site


Custom built flower box


Snow removal
 
Contract Packaging & Assembly
"For all your outsourcing needs"


Manufacturing Capabilities

Cooperative Workshops, Inc., (CWI) has a combined workforce of 150 employees at our Sedalia and Marshall locations. The Sedalia plant has 50,500 sq. ft., and the Marshall plant has 22,670 sq. ft. Marshall is a satellite facility located approximately 30 miles north of Sedalia.

CWI has the equipment to meet your needs such as forklifts, shrink wrap machines, bag sealing machines, skid wrapping machines and weigh-count scales. Depending on the job, CWI would be willing to purchase additional equipment, if needed.

CWI performs a wide range of unique jobs. We currently manufacture two types of first aid kits through the AbilityOne program (formerly known as JWOD) for GSA.

We are a registered FDA repackager and relabeler. Quality, on time delivery, and great customer service is our goal.

  


Products & Services

Custom Packaging
  • Bagging
  • Shrink wrapping
  • Clamshell packaging
  • Repacking
  • Labeling/branding
  • Bottle labeling

Assembly

  • General assembly
  • Wiring assemblies
  • Sorting

Products

  • First aid kits/supplies
  • Bloodborne kits
  • Wooden pallets
  • Wooden stakes
  • Shipping crates


Working on the packaging line
at the Sedalia facility


At work on the First Aid line

 Machine Shop
  •  Welding
  •  Deburring
  •  Aluminum cutting


Services

  • Printing
  • Collating
  • Mail processing
  • Document imaging
  • Document destruction
  • Labeling
  • Data processing
  • Corrugated recycling

Sewing



 


Spot welding at our
Sedalia facility

                                                  


Working on a sewing project

 

Vocational Training

Vocational Training provides training to individuals who are behaviorally and medically manageable and who have the desire to work in order to develop the skills necessary to gain employment, such as the development of a positive attendance record, socially appropriate behaviors, work attitudes, skills and ethics necessary to meet quality assurance guidelines.

Job training offered during program hours:

  • First Aid Packaging
  • Miscellaneous Packaging
  • Adhesive Labeling
  • Handwritten Labeling
  • Computer Skills Training (data input, for billing or general typing skills)
  • Proofing Work / Quality Checking
  • Positive Work Attendance
  • Positive Work Attitude
  • Staying on Task / Oriented to Job
  • Socially Appropriate Work Behaviors
  • Development of Gross Motor Skills
  • Development of Fine Motor Skills
  • Range of Motion Exercises
  • Identification of Colors / Training
  • Comparative Measurements (matching items together for identification)
  • Counting Skills and/or Using an Adaptive Fixture
  • Increasing Productivity
  • Increasing Quality of Work
  • Safety Training
  • Following Directions
  • Positive Grooming for the Workplace

Supports will be provided based on the individual needs of the consumer and their personal and employment goals.

Cooperative Workshops, Inc., is a business with a wide range of capabilities to meet your specific needs.

Give us a call and we'll provide you with a quote.
For more information, please contact:
Angela Vansteenburgh
Sales and Marketing Manager
Cooperative Workshops, Inc.
1500 Ewing Drive
Sedalia, Missouri 65301
1-888-615-6332 phone
1-660-827-3034 fax
avansteenburgh@chs-mo.org e-mail
Sedalia Facility
1500 Ewing Drive
Sedalia, Missouri

Marshall Facility
175 West Slater
Marshall, Missouri

 

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