Specialized Employment Services
Empowering Individuals Toward Meaningful Employment Opportunities
Specialized Employment Services
Empowering Individuals Toward Meaningful Employment Opportunities
Distinct Programmes Inc. (DPI) – Now Private Services!
You want the best and proven service to help yourself or a loved one have a productive and meaningful life? Perhaps you haven't found satisfaction and success in the employment services you have tried within the community so far? . . . Steve Su of Distinct Programmes Inc. is now offering custom private services! If you have "Passport Funding" with Developmental Services Ontario (DSO), you are eligible for our services including:
- Employment/Needs Assessment, Planning and Goal Development
- Resume Development
- Interview skills training and preparation
- Job search (volunteer, unpaid work experience, unpaid job trials, paid employment)
- Securing a job
- On-the-job Training
- Job coaching and monitoring
- Creating supportive work relationships (supervisors, trainers, work mates)
- Skills teaching
- Keeping the job
Passportfunding.ca
"In Ontario, eligible adults with a developmental disability receive a minimum of $5,500 in annual Passport funding. Individuals with higher support needs can be eligible for a greater amount, up to a current maximum of $44,275 per year".
Steve Su and Team's Expertise and Experience
Steve Su has driven DPI to success for 25 years (1999 – 2023) with ODSP Employment Supports and has worked in the mental health field for 40 years. Steve has almost solely worked with all clients as their main provider and, for this reason, has consistently been at the top of the "Target Earners" for the ODSP Employment Supports Program.
He is exceptionally well respected and known in the mental health community and employment community and receives numerous return referrals and word-of-mouth referrals from both clients and health professionals.
Steve has trained community mental health staff in Psychiatric Rehabilitation and has been a consultant with an Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT) to assess and provide vocational assessment tools. He is bilingual in English and French, as well as conversational Cantonese. Steve holds a Master's Degree in Rehabilitation Counselling, Specializing in Psychiatric Rehabilitation from Boston University. He is also a member of O.A.M.H.P. (Ontario Association of Mental Health Professionals), certified as an "Employment Management Professional", and certified in Psychiatric Rehabilitation. He is also the author of "12 Direct Life Skills Teaching Lesson Plans".
Currently, Steve works as a Forensic Case Manager with the Royal Ottawa Hospital. He also has personal experience with a family member at home with mild autism, and has successfully worked with a wide range of individuals on the spectrum, and with developmental/learning disabilities coupled with mental health challenges.
Steve's team includes two Registered Occupational Therapists, working in the hospital and community environment . . . both with mental health expertise, one has a specialty in "mind-body connection therapy", another with an "Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACT)". A fourth with a rehab focused ACT. 3 members of the team are fully bilingual, 2 Francophone. All are dedicated, long time seasoned pros with each holding 30 - 40 plus years of professional experience.
Commitment to Client and Employer Success
Steve has a "Distinct" and direct, no-nonsense approach that is custom-tailored. He assesses things quickly, figures out what makes sense and what needs to be done, and then does whatever it takes to makes things happen as quickly as possible. Steve works diligently and persistently to assist both candidates and employers during the pre-hire, hiring, and initial transition period of employment. In addition, he can provide a long-term monitoring service to ensure the ongoing success of candidates and the sustained satisfaction of their employers.
Mission and Vision
Distinct Programmes Inc. is one of the first ODSP (Ontario Disability Supports Program) Service Providers in the Ottawa Region.
DPI has been committed to offering a high level of guidance and support to both our clients and employers. DPI's goal is to help people with disabilities find and keep satisfying jobs. Services are bilingual, specialized in psychiatric health issues and we will come to you in the area where you live (or virtual). We are proud of our 80-90% placement success rate and are always striving to do better. DPI believes foremost in breaking down barriers, instilling and collaborating with transparency and authenticity . . . walking the talk with true respect for everyone.
Remember this: As long as you keep trying, we will never give up on you . . . we will persist, until you succeed.