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RISE offers community based services to individuals in their own home or apartment; hours of service determined by case plan/individual need. Assistance given in areas of need such as: activities of daily living (ADLs), cooking, transportation, and consumer-directed attendant care (CDAC).

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Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Assists individuals with barriers to independence while they live independently in the community.

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Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs
Independent Living Skills Instruction

Employment program for people who experience a disability. Assists people with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. Program is voluntary and the services provided will be specific to an individual's needs.

Helps businesses recruit, train, and retain employees with disabilities.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Transitional age program provides assistance for those youth and young adults transitioning to independent living, including subsidized housing, help with medications, budgeting, keeping house, etc. Transition age youth may be planning to transition out of foster care or their parents' home, or they may already be living on their own but need extra help to maintain their successful independence
Services are designed to enable clients to develop supports and learn skills that will allow them to live, learn, work and socialize in the community.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Offers a variety of training to equip persons with disabilities the skills and information they need to manage their own lives and live more independently. Courses include financial education, legislative internship, effective communication, basic household duties, keeping a personal assistant, and many other topics. Training may take place in group settings as well as in individual sessions.
Assist youth with disabilities in transitioning from high school to adult life including preparing for employment, higher education, independent living skills training, money management, benefit assistance, and transportation training.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction

Offers help to prepare intellectually disabled adults with substantial functional skill deficits to live and function within community settings. This is accomplished through the development and or maintenance of skills necessary for each individual served to obtain his/her maximum potential.

Employment program for people who experience a disability. Assists people with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. Program is voluntary and the services provided will be specific to an individual's needs.

Helps businesses recruit, train, and retain employees with disabilities.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options

Employment program for people who experience a disability. Assists people with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. Program is voluntary and the services provided will be specific to an individual's needs.

Helps businesses recruit, train, and retain employees with disabilities.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Opportunity Homes offers supervision and training in independent living skills for people who experience a cognitive disability and/or chronic mental illness and live in their own apartments or homes in the community. Also provides representative payee services.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Representative Payee Services

Blind Service staff provide a variety of services to individuals who are blind, visually impaired or Deaf/Blind to assist them in achieving self-sufficiency through obtaining competitive employment. Services include:

- Vocational rehabilitation.

- Provides instruction in independent living skills, communication strategies, Braille, adaptive equipment, assistive technology, and health and wellness.

- Orientation and Mobility Instructors providing instruction in skills, methods, and techniques to independently travel safely and effectively in various surroundings.

- Rehabilitation Counselors and Coordinators provide a wide variety of services necessary to assist the individual in obtaining their employment outcome goal.

Provides residential and vocational support services to persons with mental and physical disabilities. Includes HCBS waiver programs, supported community living, transportation, job coaching and placement, CDAC, medication management, independent living skills, and payee services for clients.

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Representative Payee Services
Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Centers for Independent Living
Supported Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
HCBS (HOME AND COMMUNITY BASED SERVICES) programs provide training and support to people living in shared homes in the community with opportunities for learning skills to help develop independence.(Pella/Knoxville and Indianola/Des Moines regions).

SCL (SUPPORTED COMMUNITY LIVING) program is for those people who just need someone to "drop-in" to assist them with various things. Individuals in this program can live with their families, or they can live in their own home or apartment. A Living Skills Advisor will schedule time to meet with them every week to assist them with needed tasks - budgeting, cooking, cleaning, shopping, appointments, social skills, and problem solving.

SPIRITUAL SERVICES are available to all clients.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Residential Placement Services for People With Disabilities
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities

Employment program for people who experience a disability. Assists people with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. Program is voluntary and the services provided will be specific to an individual's needs.

Helps businesses recruit, train, and retain employees with disabilities.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options

Provides peer support counseling, information and referral to services that help disabled individuals, skills training, advocacy for persons with disabilities and their families and disability awareness and leadership education. Working with individuals in their homes or in locations convenient to the individual.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Centers for Independent Living
Specialized Information and Referral
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Disease/Disability Registries

Provides peer support counseling, information and referral to services that help disabled individuals, skills training, advocacy for persons with disabilities and their families and disability awareness and leadership education. Working with individuals in their homes or in locations convenient to the individual.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Centers for Independent Living
Specialized Information and Referral
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Disease/Disability Registries

Provides a wide variety of independent living services for individuals with disabilities with the objective of helping them to function more independently in family and community settings and to secure and maintain appropriate employment. Services may include information and referral services, referrals for attendant care, attendant recruitment and training programs, independent living skills training, assistance in meeting housing and transportation needs, peer counseling, transition from institutions into the community, deflection from institutional placement, transition from youth to adult services, and advice and guidance regarding legal rights and benefits eligibility.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Centers for Independent Living
Disability Rights Groups
Case management assists youth in transition to adulthood to be successful in their community by helping them learn life skills, find support systems, mentoring, etc.

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Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Independent Living Skills Instruction

Employment program for people who experience a disability. Assists people with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. Program is voluntary and the services provided will be specific to an individual's needs.

Helps businesses recruit, train, and retain employees with disabilities.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options

Provides a variety of services to assist Individuals with disabilities live Independently in the community. It is an individualized process where SCICIL staff and the client work together as partners to determine an Independent Living Plan to achieve the desired goals.

The Jail Diversion Program is offered to individuals in Jasper and Poweshiek Counties who are in contact with the criminal justice system because of a mental health or co-occurring disorder. Participation in the Jail Diversion Program is voluntary.

Program staff are able to assist with locating housing, applying for community assistance programs, locating employment, budgeting, promoting independent living skills and identifying and intervening where there are gaps in care. Staff also provide goal-related transportation.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Diversion Programs
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Day Centers and Residential Services (7 day centers and group homes in the Omaha area)

Assisted and supported residential services, including community integration, behavior management, housekeeping, medication management, rehabilitation counseling, transportation training, money management, personal hygiene skills, leisure, socialization and recreation, and menu planning.

Supportive employment opportunities in conjunction with vocational rehabilitation.

Supported and assisted day services including community activities (volunteer work sites), contractual work, daily living skills, leisure activities in the community, computer skills training, and arts and craft activities.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Group Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Supported Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation

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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Prevocational Training
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Vocational Rehabilitation

Provides assistance for youth, ages 17 up to age 23, who are preparing to exit or have 'aged out' of foster care or other court ordered placement, meet the challenges of living independently and transition successfully to adulthood.Case Management provides coordination and linkage to available community resources.

Services include life skills training and experimental learning opportunities, assistance in obtaining and maintaining a safe and stable place to live, assistance in identifying and achieving personal education and employment goals, access to financial assistance to meet emergency or short-term needs, and assistance in obtaining medical care and mental health services.

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Supervised Living for Older Youth
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Case/Care Management
Transitional Housing/Shelter
Occupation Specific Job Training
Life Skills Education