About Level Up Indiana
Learn more about the Level Up Indiana: Employment Specialist Initiative, our mission, and our partners.
The Level Up Indiana: Employment Specialist Initiative (ESI) offers skills development and networking opportunities to expand the capacity of the state’s employment specialists.
Our Mission
Level Up Indiana combines the insights of vocational rehabilitation and coaching experts to support Indiana’s employment specialists through training and professional development resources.
We aim to provide the training and skills that state employment service providers need to effectively help a wide variety of job seekers with disabilities. By offering training through coaching, online modules, and interactive learning series, we can plant the seeds to create a strong service delivery model that helps all Hoosiers obtain and maintain successful employment.
Level Up Indiana is partially funded by Indiana Vocational Rehabilitation.
Working with PCG Indiana
PCG Indiana, a subsidiary of Public Consulting Group (PCG), has a long history of helping Indiana Vocational Rehabilitation support providers who work with individuals with disabilities. PCG has developed training for the state’s Vocational Rehabilitation staff, local employment specialists, and Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) providers. PCG has also managed the state’s vendor registration and claims payment system. PCG understands the needs of participants and how to support them. To learn more about PCG, visit their website.
Our Partners
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC)
The VCU team has been actively involved in training employment specialists, program managers, and rehabilitation personnel since 1984, initiating their own online training programs in 1998.
Since 2004, 3,133 individuals nationally have received their Association of Community Rehabilitation Educators (ACRE) certificate from VCU. The RRTC staff are subject matter experts in vocational rehabilitation, vocational counseling and guidance, disability, and employment. VCU and PCG work together to enhance ACRE trainings to best meet the needs of Indiana’s employment specialists and their participants.
Knowledge Services
Knowledge Services is an Indiana-based, women-owned business with extensive experience providing workforce resources for health and human services agencies. PCG and Knowledge Services work together to recruit candidates and staff the coaching network.
Mentoring Partners
Level Up IN is proud to partner with the following employment service providers across Indiana to provide mentoring through the Peer Mentor Network. Click on the images below to learn more about each organization.
