Maximizing Success: The Critical Role
of Comprehensive Electronic History in Employment Services

For human services agencies focused on Supported and Community Employment, the goal is clear: to help individuals achieve meaningful, integrated work. However, the journey from job discovery to successful, long‑term employment is paved with countless steps, assessments, training sessions, and employer interactions. Managing all of this critical information through paper files, disconnected spreadsheets, or a generic documentation software is not just inefficient—it can actively limit an individual's success and your agency's productivity.

The solution is an electronic employment history designed specifically for employment services. Having reliable employment history tools transforms how agencies support individuals and meet the rigorous compliance standards of vocational rehabilitation and other funding bodies.

Why a Digital Employment History is Essential for Individuals

An electronic employment history for the individuals receiving services provides unparalleled advantages that drive person‑centered outcomes:

• A Complete Record of Accomplishments: The system provides a single, extensive summary of an individual's work and volunteering history, detailing assessments, skills, and accomplishments throughout their work experiences. This is an invaluable asset that can be used to help them secure future jobs.
• Clear Progress Toward Goals: Employment support involves tracking numerous benchmarks, from 30, 60, 90, and 120‑day job retention milestones, to progress on specific Career Development Plans (CDP). A digital system allows staff to easily document and monitor this progress in real‑time.
• Data‑Driven Support and Skill Enhancement: Detailed documentation of training, coaching, and skill development, including contact notes, dates, and hours, helps support professionals assess skill enhancement and determine the optimal work conditions for the individual. This data promotes targeted and effective support.
• Streamlined Processes: The entire employment journey, including application, interview details, outcomes, and referral information, is captured and centralized, making administrative tasks faster and less prone to error.

Therap's Comprehensive Employment History Module

At Therap, we understand that effective employment support requires a specialized, robust, and secure documentation system. Therap’s Employment History module is expertly designed to assist providers in maintaining accurate, detailed, and audit‑ready records for the individuals they serve.

Integrated within our configurable, HIPAA‑compliant platform, this module provides employment support staff with an invaluable toolkit to streamline documentation and maximize support.

Therap’s Key Functionality that Therap offers Employment Service Providers:

1. Centralized Documentation: Build one space for documentation spanning employer details, interactions, Career Development strategies, milestones, applications, and interviews.
2. Employer Job Bank: Use the Job Bank functionality to maintain records of interactions with businesses and employers, and catalog available job positions. This lets team members easily access information regardless of their location.
3. Real‑Time, Mobile Documentation: Support professionals can document employment services and supports in real‑time at the worksite or in the community using Therap's mobile apps, including verifying service delivery with GPS and collecting signatures.
4. Reporting and Analysis: The system integrates data into interactive dashboards within Therap’s Business Intelligence module, visually aggregating employment data through graphs and charts for effortless trend analysis and reporting. This is crucial for quality assurance and meeting compliance standards.

Therap's Employment History module reinforces your agency’s commitment to facilitating an individual's smooth transition into community employment and meticulously documenting every milestone in their journey.