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Provides the following services to those with special needs in the community:

Day Habilitation

Supported community living promotes skill building services that are unique and individualized to each participant.

Supported employment promotes skill building services in paid work environments.

Supported education provided to individuals enrolled in post-secondary institutions or other employer recognized certificate program. Including HiSET (formally GED), career exploration and planning, assistance in obtaining tuition and related expenses, application process, study strategies, assistance in obtaining tutoring and accommodations, and other supports needed that interfere with educational success.


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Supported Employment
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Adult Out of Home Respite Care
In Home Supportive Services Subsidies
Foster Grandparents provide service to children with special needs in schools, Head Start or Health facilities. Volunteers who are age 55 and older and meet income guidelines agree to serve a minimum of 10 hours per week and receive a tax-free stipend of $4/hour and other benefits.

Senior Companion Program provides older adults with special needs assistance in their homes. Volunteers who are age 55 and older and meet income guidelines agree to serve a minimum of 10 hours per week and receive a tax-free stipend of $4/hour and other benefits.

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Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Senior Corps Volunteer Programs
General Yard Work
Friendly Visiting

Offers to connect adult volunteers ages 55 and over with opportunities to engage in service to the community. Volunteers choose what fits their passions, interests, and schedules. The agency partners with the public, non-profit, and health care organizations to address needs in the areas of education, food security, independent living, financial security, disaster, and more.

Supported employment services to job seekers and employers to create successful job matches.
CBE (COMMUNITY BASED EMPLOYMENT) provides assistance in finding and maintaining employment in contracted and non-contracted work environments to people with disabilities.

LIFE SKILLS (DAY HAB) a non-paid day program that provides support in developing or maintaining life skills and community integration.

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Prevocational Training
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Supported Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Vocational Assessment

Provides outpatient behavioral health services to those in need. Services include counseling (both individual and group), therapy, supported employment for individuals with mental and behavioral health challenges, and psychosocial rehabilitation (groups to help people with daily living skills and mental illness recovery).

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Supported Employment
General Counseling Services

Provides employment opportunities to members. Enclaves are meant to build employment skills which assist members in a transition to a job in the community.

For people with welfare dependency, homelessness, and lack of education or work experience, as well as those with physical, mental and emotional disabilities.

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Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Supports individuals with disabilities and other needs in finding community-based jobs in businesses of their choosing. To do this, staff get to know a person outside of work, assess their interests, skills, and goals, look at their home environment, and find out when and where they are at their best. Staff then offer individualized training to improve skills as well as the opportunity to learn about different types of work by visiting businesses or trying out a job for 10 days.
Provides job training and work opportunities for adults with disabilities according to their interests and abilities. Individuals may train to work in one or more areas within The Workshop, which include laundry and dry cleaning, the Galena gift shop, janitorial services, and many more. Community based employment opportunities are also available.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Provides individualized services and supports for adults with developmental disabilities in the areas of employment, skill development, social activities, and recreation opportunities.
Provides employment search and placement services for persons with serious mental illness. Provides clients with follow-along support to encourage long-term integration and success.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Provides vocational and residential services for persons with intellectual disabilities or chronic mental illness.

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Supported Employment
Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Occupation Specific Job Training
Residential Placement Services for People With Disabilities
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Mental Health Related Community Support Services (CSS)
Provides recovery and rehabilitation services and supports to consumers engaged in community-based competitive employment-related activities in normalized settings. A supported employment team provides assistance with all aspects of employment development as requested and needed by the consumer.

DRS staff talk to persons with disabilities about their employment needs and help them find a job or get ready to go to work. They also make sure that people have the supports they need to stay on the job.

Specialized vocational rehabilitation services for people who are:
- Blind or visually impaired.
- Deaf or hard of hearing.
- Hispanic or Latino with disabilities.

DRS help high school students who have disabilities plan for their futures after high school graduation.

DRS Work Incentive Planning and Assistance Program helps people who receive SSDI/SSI benefits understand how working will affect their benefits.

DRS Supported Employment Program (SEP) serves eligible people with significant disabilities who want to go to work and need on-going support services to succeed on the job.

Vocational rehabilitation services include vocational guidance and counseling; training, tuition, and equipment; occupational equipment and supplies; assistance for establishing small businesses (NBE); job placement and follow-up services; and medical services.

Orientation and adjustment center.

Consultants for people who are blind or visually impaired.

Training in cane travel and independent living skills.

Home training.

Supportive services and transitional services for youth who are proceeding from high school to college.

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Disease/Disability Information
Assistive Technology Equipment
Orientation and Mobility Training
Vocational Rehabilitation

Works with disabled individuals to find employment by assisting them with job readiness skills, benefits counseling, job development, and case management. The program works with local business, as well as state and federal agencies, to ensure that the services are all encompassing.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs

Offers a Disability Access Point, or "DAP", which help people with disabilities, their families, and their caregivers find the services and support they need-both short-term and long-term. DAPs help by giving information, making plans, making referrals and checking in to make sure people are getting the right support to live healthy, independent lives.

Can help with the following services:

- Information and Assistance - based on presented and identified needs, provides information about programs and services, and helps to connect individuals to service providers in their communities.

- Options Counseling - provides guidance to individuals so that they may make informed choices about supports and services, typically over a period of 90 days or less. This includes benefits screening and application assistance for programs and services and follow-ups to make sure supports and decisions are assisting the individual.

- Financial Assistance - provides gap funding and service coordination for programs and services that support individuals and their caregivers so that individuals may live in the home and community of their choice. Help with short-term services and long term services are also provided.

Short-term supports (time-limited) include adaptive and assistive equipment, home and vehicle modifications, peer and parent support services, rent assistance, transportation assistance, and other basic needs (not covered by insurance).

Long-term services and supports includes adult day programs, consumer-directed attendant care (CDAC) (non-skilled and skilled), day habilitation, employment like job skills training, prevocational services, and supported employment, intensive residential services (IRSH), personal response systems, respite services like in-home, in-facility, and day camps, supported community living (SCL) and home-based habilitation (hourly), and residential living settings.

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Transportation Expense Assistance
Supported Employment
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Benefits Screening
Intermediate Care Facility/DD Transition Financing Programs
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Aging and Disability Resource Centers
Nursing Home Transition Financing Programs
Home Barrier Removal Grants
Prevocational Training
Specialized Information and Referral
Long Term Care Options Counseling
Respite Care Subsidies
General Household Goods Provision
Brings volunteers together with those who are frail or have chronic health needs for supportive friendship as well as respite care for caregivers. Offers tax-free stipends for those who meet financial guidelines, meals and transportation reimbursement, and monthly training sessions.
Supports involvement at work and in the community through habilitative community inclusion, habilitative workshop, prevocational services, and supported employment services.

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Disability Related Center Based Employment
Supported Employment

Provides skills training programs (LEEP/Link Employment Exploration Program) and Supported Employment programs (job development and job coaching) to individuals with an intellectual or developmental disability.

Services to persons with developmental disabilities.

Residential services, alternative living.

Vocational services.

Family and medical support services, respite care.

Supported employment services and job search.

Contract Procurement/ Enclaves/Business in Industry.

Shared Living Provider.

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Adult In Home Respite Care
Adult Out of Home Respite Care
Adult Foster Homes
Children's Out of Home Respite Care
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Children's In Home Respite Care
Supported Employment
Group Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Volunteer opportunities for individuals for the benefit of frail older persons with special needs. Matches volunteers with a frail older person. The volunteer can then provide such assistance as companionship, respite for a caregiver, escort and transportation, shopping assistance, letter writing, reading, or other chores which the older person is in need of and the volunteer is capable and willing to provide.

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Senior Corps Volunteer Programs
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Senior Ride Programs
Friendly Visiting
Adult In Home Respite Care

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
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Provides vocational and pre-employment services to people with disabilities. Aims for the individual to secure and sustain competitive employment. Services include on-site vocational training and job coaching. After training, participants find placement in community-based careers.