OakLeaf Partners Employment & Transition Services

OakLeaf Partners Community Employment Program offers comprehensive school-to-work transition services, community-based assessments and training, and job placement services throughout Northeast Ohio. OakLeaf Partners assists individuals with all types of disabilities to succeed in employment while also enjoying greater financial and personal independence. Our staff members work with participants to identify their interests, strengths, needs, and goals, while helping them develop marketable work skills. We collaborate with an extensive network of businesses and other community partners to make the most appropriate job matches and provide person-centered services leading to employment. View our flyer for more information about our Community Employment Program. 

Upcoming Programs:

• Summer Youth Work Experience – teaches youth with disabilities vocational skills and appropriate work behaviors in a supportive, community-based environment. View the flyer for our 2024 Summer Youth Work Experience program.

Individualized Services include:

• OakLeaf Partners Employment in the Community

  • • Group Employment Services

    • Individual Placement

    • Transition Services (High School-to-Work)

    • Assistive Technology Assessments and Training

• Skill Building

• Job-Seeking Skills Training

• Travel Training

• On-the-Job Coaching

• Follow-along Support

• Situational Assessment

• Career Exploration

• Community-Based Work Adjustment

• For more information about OakLeaf Partners Employment Services contact: Kate Adkins-Dix at 216-791-8363 ext. 1252 or kadkins-dix@ucpcleveland.org.

2024 Community Employment Partners

OakLeaf Partners Employment Services at UCP of Greater Cleveland is hallmarked by developing independent, community-based job opportunities that are individualized to meet the needs of both adults with disabilities and their employers. We could not support the hundreds of adults who we serve to obtain and retain meaningful employment without the strong participation and partnership of the following local businesses:

• Above & Beyond Landscaping
• Amherst Manor
• Aramark
• Best Buy
• Bon Appetit
• Buehler’s Fresh Foods
• Burlington
• Chippewa Place Retirement Community
• Cleveland Clinic
• Cleveland Control
• Cleveland Metroparks
• Crane Aerospace
• Dave’s Markets
• Discount Drug Mart
• Dott Products
• Dreco
• Euclid Heat Treating Co.
• Exela Technologies
• Fat Heads
• Giant Eagle
• Hive Works Honey
• InterContinental Hotel
• Lorenzo’s Pizzeria
• Malley’s Chocolates
• Marc’s
• Marshall’s
• Meijer
• Mercy Health – Lorain Hospital
• MetroHealth
• Metz Culinary Management
• Morrison Healthcare
• Nothing Bundt Cakes
• Oatey
• O’Neill’s Healthcare
• Panera Bread
• Paramount Senior Living
• Petsuites
• Pipeline Packaging
• Planet Fitness
• Project Search Promotions
• Signature Sauces
• Sky Café (GAT)
• Suntan Supply
• The A. I. Root Company
• The Cleaning Authority
• The Grove
• The Home Depot
• The Nord Center
• University Hospitals
• Wesleyan Village
• Western Reserve Masonic Community
• Westfield Group
• Westfield Inn
• Westshore YMCA