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Provides supported community living (SCL). SCL gives individuals with disabilities the opportunity to live as independently as possible in the community. Service includes support with safety, housekeeping, finances, communication, employment, socialization, transportation and wellness.

Hourly supported community living provides service from just a few hours per month up to 8 hours per day. This goal focused program maintains the independence clients currently have while working toward greater independence. Clients access the community in varying ways to increase their own independence like using public transportation, grocery shopping, working out and forming meaningful relationships with peers.

24-hour supported community living serves adults who require a higher amount of service hours in their place of residence and the community. Clients learn independent living skills while working toward the goal of greater independence.

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

Programs that offer 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.

-- Individual and community advocacy.

-- Transition from institutions into the community.

-- Deflection from institutional placement.

-- Transition from youth to adult services.

-- Advice and guidance regarding legal rights and benefits eligibility.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Disability Rights Groups
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Centers for Independent Living

Services for individuals with disabilities. Includes information and referral, service coordination, independent living skills training, individual and system advocacy, equipment loan and rental, barrier removal consultations and grants, and disability awareness training. Assists people with disabilities to transition from nursing homes to community based living. Offers a personal assistant referral and management program. Peer mentoring. Mobility options equipment repair and sales.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Mentoring Programs
Home Barrier Evaluation/Removal Services
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Disease/Disability Registries
Offers classes for those with a mental illness, an intellectual disability, or other disabling conditions. Classes help clients learn and develop skills to live successfully in the community and live independently at home.
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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Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals With Developmental Disabilities
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Residential Placement Services for People With Disabilities

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.

Categories

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

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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Occupation Specific Job Training
Supervised Living for Older Youth
Life Skills Education
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Transitional Housing/Shelter
Case/Care Management
Provides person-centered services directed toward Supported Community Living and self-advocacy training. Training in independent living skills: self-care, social skills, home maintenance/ housekeeping, and community access for individuals with developmental disabilities, traumatic brain injury and chronic mental illness.

Categories

Independent Living Skills Instruction
Mental Health Related Community Support Services (CSS)
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.

Categories

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

Offers to teach skills to allow visually impaired individuals to maintain maximum independence in their living environment, i.e., food preparation, cleaning, laundering, and other household tasks and management. Transportation to and from the center is available. Visits individuals in homes to assess the individual needs of a client in their personal environment to maximize their independence and add meaning to their life.

- Advocates for the civil rights of individuals with disabilities.

- Coordinates public disability awareness activities including presentations to community groups.

- Assists individuals with hearing and speech disabilities access communication needs.

- Assists with independent living skills training (money management, assertiveness training, self-advocacy, etc.).

- Provides information and referral services.

- Provides peer mentoring for individual and group settings.

- Provides transition services such as moving qualified individuals from nursing facilities or other institutions to independent living.

- Assists youth with disabilities transition from high school to adult life.

- Provides personal assistant services.

- Operates a Community Advocacy Training program for youth and adults.

- Assists individuals with vision loss or blindness acquire assistive devices and skills training.

- Operates a medical equipment loan program.

- Provides mentoring for parents of youth with disabilities.

Categories

Independent Living Skills Instruction
Centers for Independent Living
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Specialized Information and Referral
Assistive Technology Equipment
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities

Provides informational and educational programming targeted toward a consumer or a group of consumers with the intent to develop or increase the skills, knowledge and/or abilities required to live, work and play in the community.

Programs offered include self-advocacy and awareness, life skills training, braille training, TTY training, personal assistant information, interpreter referrals and equipment demonstration and loan.

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Assistive Technology Information
Braille Instruction
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Assistive Technology Equipment

Assists students with disabilities with job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, counseling on post-secondary education, workplace readiness training, and self advocacy.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
General Youth Employment Programs

Offers evidence-based, practical education courses designed to help autistic adults develop essential skills for greater independence. The curriculum includes courses from four main domains: social, daily living, work, and finance. Each course focuses on hands-on learning, allowing participants to practice new skills in a supportive environment that encourages self-growth and confidence. Through this approach, Prosper Academy empowers autistic adults to pursue their personal and professional goals, providing tools and resources to help them navigate life's challenges with increased autonomy and resilience.

Courses are available in person and virtually, and financial assistance is available to those that qualify.

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

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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Vocational Rehabilitation
Representative Payee Services
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Centers for Independent Living
Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Supported Employment

RAMP advocates for individuals who want to learn to use RMTD's fixed route public bus system. Employees can assist with navigating the cost of the fare, planning a route, and education of bus behavior. Advocates also train RMTD's bus drivers on proper use of lifts and disability awareness.

Provides daily living skill instructions to help increase independence and promote economic self-sufficiency for individuals with developmental disabilities. Services include money management, problem solving, nutrition, grooming, writing and communication. Transportation is available for those who qualify.

Instructions and opportunities to develop skills in the areas of daily living, independence, communication, interpersonal relations, utilization of community resources, recreation and leisure activities, and personal care. Physical therapy maintenance program is available to program participants on doctor's prescription.
Provides person-centered services directed toward Supported Community Living and self-advocacy training. Training in independent living skills: self-care, social skills, home maintenance/ housekeeping, and community access for individuals with developmental disabilities, traumatic brain injury and chronic mental illness.

Categories

Independent Living Skills Instruction
Mental Health Related Community Support Services (CSS)

Offers a variety of home based services dependent on individual personalized plans and needs. Available home based services include:

- Staff assistance with teaching various daily living skills.

- Transportation to medical appointments and other community resources.

- Accessing recreational opportunities in the community.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Disability Related Transportation

Empowers people with disabilities to attain new skills and techniques so they are able to participate in daily living, recreational/social opportunities, and vocational/volunteering activities. Adapt to and address the individual needs of those served.

Assist people with disabilities in mastering skills they need to live independently, including but not limited to:

-- Accessing public transportation.

-- Managing a personal budget.

-- Promoting self-advocacy.

-- Teaching home-making skills.

-- Utilizing community services.

-- Obtaining assistive devices and durable medical equipment.

-- Hiring and maintaining a personal assistant.

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
Provides individuals with disabilities the skills to increase and maintain independence. Will help to identify and work toward goals and put together a plan to succeed.

Categories

Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Independent Living Skills Instruction