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The Training Advancement Skills in the Community (TASC) Day Habilitation program is an organized program of activities designed to foster the acquisition of skills, build positive social behavior and interpersonal competence, greater independence and personal choice. Day Habilitation services are designed and developed in a manner that is individualized and focused on enabling the member to attain or maintain their maximum potential. TASC defines the scope of these services and supports based on the identified needs and desires of the person served. Services offered enable and enhance the member's: intellectual functioning, physical and emotional health and development, language and communication development, cognitive functioning, socialization and community integration, functional skill development, behavior management, responsibility and self direction, daily living skills, self-advocacy skills or mobility.

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Social Skills Training
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Behavior Modification
Life Skills Education

Provides agricultural and life skills services to individuals with developmental disabilities. Also provides a food pantry and mobile meal program. Works with Dekalb School District 428 on food education for students.

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Nutrition Education
Food Pantries
Mobile Food Pantry Programs
Life Skills Education
Supports people with disabilities in learning new skills in the following areas: intellectual functioning, physical and emotional health and development, language and communication, cognitive functioning, social and community integration, functional skill development, behavior management, responsibility and self direction, daily living activities, self advocacy and mobility.

Offers a variety of services for men, women, and children experiencing homelessness, gives guests a safe place to be during the day with heating and cooling. Services include: Computer Learning Center, Referrals to community resources, job search assistance, life skills training, assistance with rental applications, and emergency clothing vouchers.


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Prejob Guidance
Public Internet Access Sites
Computer Literacy Training Programs
Homeless Drop In Centers
Clothing Vouchers
Life Skills Education

Provides programs and training for adults, including:

- Life skills training

- Counseling

- Life and health coaching

- Health and wellness training

- Career coaching and job application/resume training

- Financial literacy

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General Counseling Services
General Health Education Programs
Financial Literacy Training
Life Skills Education
Career Counseling

Provides intensive case management for adults and families who are experiencing homelessness or are at risk of homelessness. Program will assist clients with obtaining and retaining stable housing and employment while developing essential life skills. Also provides transitional and independent living for DCFS referrals.

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Case/Care Management
Vocational Rehabilitation
Life Skills Education
Transitional Housing/Shelter

Using an evidence-based poverty alleviation curriculum, individuals attend an 8-10 week long Getting Ahead class in a cohort of 12-14 people meeting once or twice per week, followed by Life Skill Coaching with certified coaches for as long as needed.

Individuals identify resources, tools, and skills needed to remove barriers to success in their lives. Participants, aka "Investigators", investigate the root causes of poverty and how to make changes needed in their lives toward stability and self-sufficiency, through learning soft skills, SMART goal setting, building assets, decreasing debts, increasing salary and wages, learning and discussing hidden rules of economic classes, learning emotional regulation, and much more.

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Financial Literacy Training
Life Skills Education

Offers a wide range of behavioral healthcare and integrated care services, including:

Individualized Treatment Services includes, comprehensive mental health and substance use assessment, counseling services, crisis stabilization, life skills development, and dual diagnosis services.

Substance use treatment services includes, outpatient treatment services, DUI evaluations and risk education, substance abuse education, substance use counseling, and Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT).

Psychiatric services include, medication assessment, medication monitoring, psychiatric services available in all Sinnissippi Centers' main office locations.

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Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Integrated Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment
Mental Health Evaluation
In Person Crisis Intervention
Substance Use Disorder Counseling
Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Medication Based Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
Psychiatric Medication Services
Life Skills Education
General Counseling Services
Comprehensive Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment
General Psychiatry

Offers life skills training workshops for building capacity for independence.

Program for learning essential skills to navigate everyday challenges and responsibilities successfully. Helps to identify barriers and commit to financial and personal goals, creating a path toward stability.

Offers to teach the life skills necessary to prevent further involvement with the criminal justice system. Life skills taught include, Decision-making, Conflict resolution, Coping, Communication, Future goal development.

Support and mentorship for high school girls ages 15-18. Offers weekly sessions in the evening related to careers, college, financial literacy, and identity development/diversity.

Provides day and respite services, and addresses individual needs and desires for care, for informed choices and the individual's vision for the future. OWL is an approved provider for the Brain Injury Waiver Program, which was created by Iowa State Legislature in 1996. Services provided through the program include, supported Community Living-designed to assist the consumer with daily living needs, which includes, but are not limited to, community skills, personal needs, budgeting, social skills, home management and individual advocacy.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Life Skills Education

Provides emergency housing and supportive services to homeless individuals and families. Services include case management, information and referral to community resources, education assistance, workshops, and access to food pantry.


Cold Shelter available on nights when it is 20F or below.

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Food Pantries
Life Skills Education
Case/Care Management
Specialized Information and Referral
Homeless Shelter
Supports people with disabilities in learning new skills in the following areas: intellectual functioning, physical and emotional health and development, language and communication, cognitive functioning, social and community integration, functional skill development, behavior management, responsibility and self direction, daily living activities, self advocacy and mobility.

A 12-week education course for individuals who are unemployed, underemployed, or hard-to-employ designed to promote personal growth and professional success. Program participants receive mentors, weekly job leads and referrals, transportation, food, housing, and more. A job fair is held at the end of each course.

Community college.

GED preparation and testing.

ESL - English as a Second language classes.

Adult basic education, including literacy, job seeking, and life skills education.

Citizenship preparation.

Tutors available in various locations in the Panhandle.

Single parent / displaced homemaker program provides career counseling, dependent care, non-traditional training, skills training, technology training, books and tuition, personal counseling, support groups, and transportation. Contact a student services advisor for information.

Veterans Upward Bound programs offer intensive basic skills development and short-term remedial courses for military veterans to help them successfully transition to post-secondary education.

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English as a Second Language
Tutoring Services
Life Skills Education
High School Equivalency/GED Test Sites
Literacy Programs
Community Colleges
Career Counseling
Adult Basic Education
Citizenship Education
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
Helps individuals learn skills and utilize tools to create and maintain wellness and to make choices that lead to healthier outcomes. Part of the process includes creating a Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) - which helps individuals discover simple, safe, and effective tools to create and maintain wellness, develop a daily plan to stay on track with life and wellness goals, and identify what throws goals off track and develop a plan to keep moving forward. This is led by trained facilitators who will also do follow-up to see if the plan needs updated at least twice a year.

Also offers the writing SMART Goals class. Here the person learns to write goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound. This is done by breaking down objectives into smaller, more manageable components that are easy to track and achieve. The goals can be about anything in the person's life.
Assists with life skills, such as self-care, cooking and money management. Also assists people with navigating their housing needs, benefit coordination, community resources, medications, therapy appointments and doctor appointments as well as supported employment.

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Life Skills Education
Mental Health Related Community Support Services (CSS)
Supported Employment

Provides programs and training for youth, including:

- Life skills training

- Peer mentorship

- Career readiness

- Tutoring and after school programs

- Dance and step programs

- Sports camp

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Youth Enrichment Programs
Life Skills Education
Tutoring Services
Student Career Counseling
Mentoring Programs

Provides help to individuals with develop and to achieve life goals. Offers participants social-emotional support and acts as a bridge in making connections to immediate needs, as well as developing life-changing skills. The program has 3 phases, each phase lasting 60 days. The participant will meet one on one with a Fountain of Youth professional each week to see how they are progressing with their goals and what can be done to help. This program consists of each participant making an individual success plan that pertains to one of the following areas: knowledge of self and others, citizenship, basic life skills, education, health and wellbeing, financial literacy and workplace success. The program is a minimum of 60 days commitment and a maximum of 6 months.


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Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Life Skills Education
Personal Financial Counseling

Offers a wide range of behavioral healthcare and integrated care services, including:

Individualized Treatment Services includes, comprehensive mental health and substance use assessment, counseling services, crisis stabilization, life skills development, and dual diagnosis services.

Substance use treatment services includes, outpatient treatment services, DUI evaluations and risk education, substance abuse education, substance use counseling, and Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT).

Psychiatric services include, medication assessment, medication monitoring, psychiatric services available in all Sinnissippi Centers' main office locations.

Categories

Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Integrated Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment
Mental Health Evaluation
In Person Crisis Intervention
Substance Use Disorder Counseling
Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Medication Based Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
Psychiatric Medication Services
Life Skills Education
General Counseling Services
Comprehensive Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment
General Psychiatry

Offers work training to young men and women 18-25. Program offers opportunities in job training, goal setting, life skill classes, and discipleship.

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Occupation Specific Job Training
Life Skills Education
Supports people with disabilities in learning new skills in the following areas: intellectual functioning, physical and emotional health and development, language and communication, cognitive functioning, social and community integration, functional skill development, behavior management, responsibility and self direction, daily living activities, self advocacy and mobility.

Community college.

GED preparation and testing.

ESL - English as a Second language classes.

Adult basic education, including literacy, job seeking, and life skills education.

Citizenship preparation.

Tutors available in various locations in the Panhandle.

Single parent / displaced homemaker program provides career counseling, dependent care, non-traditional training, skills training, technology training, books and tuition, personal counseling, support groups, and transportation. Contact a student services advisor for information.

Veterans Upward Bound programs offer intensive basic skills development and short-term remedial courses for military veterans to help them successfully transition to post-secondary education.

Categories

English as a Second Language
Tutoring Services
Life Skills Education
High School Equivalency/GED Test Sites
Literacy Programs
Community Colleges
Career Counseling
Adult Basic Education
Citizenship Education
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction