The following websites provide information on how families and professionals can support youth with disabilities through the various stages and components of preparing for, obtaining, and succeeding in professional employment. It includes information on employment-related interests, skills, abilities, and aptitudes and provides resources for learning about workplace accommodations.


+ Career Link
Career Link functions as a self-directed Job Search System providing quality customer service to the people of Pennsylvania enabling all customers to make informed choices. It also provides a self service system in which interested individuals have access to employment, education and training resources.
+ ADA Technical Assistance
+ Americas Job Bank
+ America’s Career InfoNet
+ Career TRACK
+ Department of Public Welfare-Disability Services
+ Job Accommodations Network
JAN, a free consulting service designed to increase the employability of people with disabilities by: 1) providing individualized worksite accommodations solutions, 2) providing technical assistance regarding the ADA and other disability related legislation, and 3) educating callers about self-employment options.
+ Job Search and Career Advice
+ Keys2Work
Keys2Work is skills-based career development and job matching system that matches persons with solid foundational skills with jobs likely to require those skills. Keys2Work uses the Work Keys® assessment from ACT to measure how students' and job seekers' academic abilities match against the skill demands of the workplace.
+ The Red Book (Social Security)
+ Think Beyond the Label
+ Ticket to Work
+ Works for Me
+ Workforce Investment Act Implementation Site
The Pennsylvania Workforce website is a work in progress designed to quickly distribute information on the state's implementation of the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 and to provide a forum for emerging questions and answers about the act.
+ Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR)
+ The National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability (NCWD/Youth)