OHEL Bais Ezra Day Services

Where New Opportunities Begin!

Where individuals with developmental disabilities, young and senior develop the skills necessary to thrive, participate in a healthy day structure, integrate in the community, gain meaningful employment, and lead fulfilled lives.

Our Unique Approach Combining Day Habilitation & Employment

At the OHEL Jaffa Family Campus in Flatbush and The OHEL Kleinman Regional Family Center in Far Rockaway, our Day Habilitation programs work uniquely alongside our Employment Services programs. This unique program-exchange enables OHEL to maximize every participant’s potential by assessing, nurturing, and training every individual, according to their needs, abilities and life objectives.

A Sense of Unity

We are all family at OHEL Bais Ezra, personified by a great sense of unity amongst program participants and staff. We are dedicated professionals, focused on optimizing every participants’ abilities and opportunities, to ensure each individual thrives and realizes their full potential.

OHEL’s Employment Tracks

OHEL offers a number of step-by-step jobs programs customized to the needs and abilities of each individual seeking to enter the work force. From assessment, to training, to placement, OHEL helps to secure meaningful and rewarding employment.

PATHWAY TO EMPLOYMENT

OHEL offers Pathway to Employment as an assessment program for those who are struggling to find their calling in the employment field. Together, we help determine the best field/s of employment to gain long-term employment. The year-long program eligible to anyone high school age or older. Upon program completion, the employment team helps determine the next steps to help realize the participants’ employment goals.

OHEL PREVOCATIONAL SERVICES 

OHEL offers Prevocational Services to those who need assisting entering the workforce but are a year or more away from reaching that goal. Focusing on skills necessary to enter the workforce, the program includes support and training related to the ability to obtain and retain employment, through meaningful classes, groups and personalized attention (Eg: working a cash register, QuickBooks, social skills etc.) along with providing a personalized vocational plan. 

OHEL SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT (SEMP)

OHEL’s Supported Employment is geared towards people who have a job, making minimum wage, on the books. We provide individualized job coaching to enhance and maintain a current job. The program also helps in seeking a second job, a job with longer hours, or a job in a completely new field. SEMP gears itself towards the individual person with only their goals in mind. 

OHEL EMPLOYMENT TRAINING PROGRAM (ETP)

OHEL provides an Employment Training Program as a liaison to OPWDD and their leadership team. The program provides assessment, job development services, and job coaching, while potentially subsidizing cost for a period of time for the employer.       

Locations for OHEL Bais Ezra Day Service Programs

The OHEL JAFFA FAMILY CAMPUS

1268 East 14th Street |  Brooklyn, NY 11230

THE KLEINMAN FAMILY OHEL REGIONAL FAMILY CENTER

156 Beach 9th Street |  Far Rockaway, NY 11691

Access: 1-800-603-OHEL