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Connect | Community Choices

Offers opportunities to meet new people and explore new places. Helps members navigate the complex world of friendship and connection. Social Coaches work with individuals and groups to build skills that create fulfilling connections. Membership is required.

-- Social Opportunities: Provides weekly events where members can connect with other members with disabilities. Staff support members as much as they need. The purpose of social opportunities is to meet other people and explore community spaces.

-- Co-Op Meetings: Provides quarterly information sessions to members with disabilities and their families (who are also members). Provides information about disability services in the area and how to better utilize Community Choices services and programs. Co-Op meetings also include a 30-minute social time for everyone to connect and catch up with the cooperative community.

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Adult Day Service | Life Skills Training Center, Inc.

Offers social interaction, therapeutic activities and community engagement for clients.  Some of the activities are coffee, shopping, arts and crafts, cooking, health and wellness, visiting local attractions and volunteering.

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Disability Services | Sparc

Helps individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities by enabling them to successfully live, learn, work, and socialize in the community. Its programs are attuned to the unique potential of each individual and designed to build self-confidence and independence. Support services are provided through one or more of the following programs:

- 24-hour residential support.

- Developmental training.

- Supported living.

- Supported employment.

- Competitive employment.

- Janitorial training.

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Special Recreation Association | River Valley Special Recreation Association

Provides recreation programs, Special Olympics, weekly programs, and special trips and events for people with special needs or developmental disabilities. Also offers a summer day camp. 

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Day Habilitation Program | ChildServe

Assists individuals in developing or maintaining life skills and community integration. Programming is coordinated on-site and in the community to enhance opportunities to learn in a variety of environments. Day Habilitation services are designed to assist young adults to successfully transition to adulthood by increasing community integration and life skills.

In Ames, Day Habilitation is only offered in the summer.
In Johnston, Day Habilitation is offered year-round.

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Recreational Programs for People with Disabilities | Northern Will County Special Recreation Association

Offers a range of programs and services to people with disabilities, including social clubs and events, skill-based programs, seasonal camps, cultural arts, special events, sports teams, sensory room experiences, competition at Special Olympics and more, also offers an adult day program.

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Community Day Services | Association for Individual Development

Provides skill training, paid work opportunities, community integration and employment to individuals in order to enhance and maintain their independence in community living. The program gives support, assistance and advocacy for individuals with developmental disabilities.

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Health and Wellness | Workshop, The

Strives to enhance the mind, body, and spirits of individuals with disabilities served through the following programs: - Developmental skills.

- Exercise and nutrition.

- Classes of varying topics.

- Community outings.

- Adventure For All.

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Day Habilitation Services For Adults | Easterseals Iowa

Life Club takes place on site at Camp Sunnyside as well as in the Des Moines area community. The program provides training in skills like socializing, communication, problem solving, creative thinking, peer relationships and more. Life Club clients make friends, get out to see different community attractions, choose and lead activities they enjoy. Team members focus on strengths and independence as clients participate in activities.

Clients Socially Integrated is a community-based day program for adults with disabilities focused on learning transferable skills that lead to independence in the community. This is achieved by spending the day out in the community, learning to navigate the public transportation system, relationship building, problem solving and deciding  as a group what activities to do. Communication, safety, transportation and independent skills are sharpened as clients visit historical sites, volunteer, visit coffee shops, go to movies and much more.

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Supported Community Living Services | Trivium Life Services

Offers two levels of Supported Community Living Services designed to meet the daily living needs of adults with disabilities and mental illness. These services increase a client's independence and provide a level of relief for family members and caretakers. The level of service is determined by the individual, guardians, case managers, and providers to best suit their needs.

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Area II Disability Support Services | Office of Human Development (OHD) Central Office

Community-based services and support to persons of all ages with developmental disabilities.

Residential program includes staffed group homes for youth and adults, supervised apartments, and independent living arrangements.

Vocational training and employment services through a supervised training center (HUB), which includes on-site contract work, work stations in industry, supervised employment programs, and job coaching. Additionally, High Plains Employment Services concentrates on job readiness and securing employment.

Year-round educational program is available to children through contractual arrangements with the school district.

Respite care may be available, call for details.

Intergenerational Center, 1406 14th Ave, for individuals who have reached retirement age. Clients are served through an alternative day program that emphasizes recreation, leisure, and maintenance of daily living skills. Alternative day services are also available for other adults whose needs do not include vocational or employment goals.

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Area III Disability Support Services | Office of Human Development (OHD) Central Office

Community-based services and support to persons of all ages with developmental disabilities.

Residential program includes staffed group homes for youth and adults, supervised apartments, and independent living arrangements in Alliance, Chadron, and Hay Springs.

Vocational training and employment services through a supervised workshop, Niobrara Enterprises, includes on-site contract work, work stations in industry, supervised employment programs, and job coaching.

Year-round educational program is available to children through contractual arrangements with the school district.

Adult leisure and recreational center for individuals who have reached retirement age. Clients are served through an alternative day program that emphasizes recreation, leisure, and maintenance of daily living skills. Alternative day services are also available for other adults whose needs do not include vocational or employment goals.

Play It Again Sam Thrift Store, 427 Illinois St, work training site.

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Supported Employment/Vocational Services | Imagine the Possibilities

Offers supported employment opportunities to individuals who have both the desire to work in an integrated work setting and employment abilities for this setting. The two main goals of these services are to give the individuals the opportunity to earn competitive wages and allow these wages to be earned in an integrated work setting.

Provides vocational training for persons who require a higher level of care than is available through other Hope Haven programs. Individuals receiving services must have a primary diagnosis of a mental disability and must be certified by the Iowa Foundation for Medical Care to be in need of this level of service.

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Developmental Disability Services | Prime Home Developmental Disabilities Services

Provides residential and day habilitation services, community integration, vocation planning customized emplyment, volunteer opportunities, community outings, internships, work experience programs and crisis prevention.

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Day Habilitation Program | Imagine the Possibilities

Services are provided to individuals who would like to work on life-skill goals such as cooking, cleaning, socialization, community safety, etc. through a program called Community Integration. Individuals have the opportunity to be active and access the community through communication and socialization activities.

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Community Living Services | Community Alternatives Nebraska, Inc.

Provides 24-hour residential and vocational services to persons with developmental disabilities and/or mental health diagnoses and provides residential foster care services for children under age 19.

Services include the following:

-- Home and Community-Based Services

-- Shared Living Provider Homes/SLP

-- Group Homes

-- Intermediate Care Facilities

-- Supported Employment and Job Placement

-- Periodic and Supported Living Services

-- Day Programs and Activities

-- Health and Behavioral Services

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Disability Related Support Services | Apace

Vocational, residential, and day services support and training to persons with developmental disabilities and/or related conditions.

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Day Habilitation Program | Systems Unlimited

Designed to help individuals optimize their personal and social competency to live successfully in the community. Activities include volunteerism, leisure and recreation, health and wellness, personal empowerment, access to the arts, making friends, pursuing hobbies, passions, and more.

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Supported Living Services | Cedar Valley Community Support Services

Offers services and support to individuals with intellectual disabilities, mental illness, traumatic brain injuries or developmental disabilities.

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Opportunity House | Opportunity House

Provides services to adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities.

- Day services: Developmental Training and Vocational Services.

- Residential Services: Group homes (CILA and CLF) and intermittent and family supports (CILA-I and CILA-F).

- Home Based Support Services.

- Special Olympics and Recreation Services.

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Community Day Services | Crosspoint Human Services

Works to ensure that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities achieve greater independence, personal choice, self-awareness, and wellness opportunities. 

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Friendsfirst | Lifelong Access

Provides a social program for young adults and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities who wish to socialize, learn new skills, share talents, connect with their community, or practice skills needed for greater independence.

Activities may include:
- Gardening
- Arts and crafts
- Special speakers
- Music
- Book reading/discussion
- Games
- Animals

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Community-Integrated Living Arrangements | Ottawa Friendship House

Provides daily care with staff who help with daily tasks like cooking, cleaning, and proper hygiene.

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Community Day Services | Marklund Hyde Center

Provides individualized programming for adults with developmental, physical, and medical disabilities. Offers the following services:
- Developing social skills and other everyday skills
- Various kinds of therapy
- Activities of daily living
- Pre-vocational and vocational skills training
- Communication development
- Community/vocational outings.

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