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As Your Partner, JOI Handles Employment-Related Services
Many companies and institutions require outsourcing of basic services such as laundry, food services, custodial and landscaping. JOI has been providing value-added services to our customers for over twenty years.

We assist our partners with the following employment-related services:

• Ongoing project evaluation
• Recruitment of the disabled
• Department of Labor documentation
• Assessment of capabilities
• Training and orientation
• Program/Project Management
• Employee retention, discipline and termination
• Community promotion and visibility programs

           
Real Jobs for Capable People
We know that meaningful employment provides the best mechanism for integrating people with disabilities into productive society. Work enhances self-worth, teaches marketable skills and provides a sense of accomplishment and belonging. Employment reduces the dependence on public-assistance programs and enables the individual to gain more economic security and individual life choices.

By contracting with Job Options you:

• help your business succeed with our exemplary services
• receive high-quality products backed by award-winning personnel
• provide JOI employees with dignity, opportunity and independence
• are socially responsible, as employees become taxpayers rather than tax recipients
• will benefit local economies
• are guaranteed 100% customer satisfaction

Our Employees are Consistently Honored for Excellence

AbilityOne Program
The AbilityOne Program, formerly the Javits-Wagner-O’Day Act, helps find employment for thousands of people who have severe disabilities. The program coordinates its activities with nonprofit organizations such as Job Options to employ these individuals and provide goods and services to the federal government at a fair price. The AbilityOne Program:

• Employs nearly 43,000 disabled people
• Is the largest source of employment in the country for people who have disabilities
• Coordinates participation from more than 600 nonprofit agencies throughout the United States
• Represents $2.3 billion of products and services purchased by the federal government in 2006
• Operates at nearly 1,000 locations, representing 40 government agencies nationally
• Is the largest provider of custodial services and commissary shelf-stocking to the federal government
• Is one of the major providers of military dining services to the Department of Defense
• Surveyed the workforce in 2006 and found that 76% of people with severe disabilities were satisfied with their jobs and 79% are very proud of their work.

The AbilityOne Program is administered by the Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled, an independent federal agency, with assistance from the National Institute for the Severely Disabled (NISH).