Mission: To advocate for individuals with developmental disabilities and cognitive impairments and their families, by promoting choices, creating opportunities and providing the support they need to fully participate in the community. Programs: To provide advocacy and public policy development; self-advocacy and local chapter development; training programs about developmental and related disabilities; information and assistance; consultation and assistance to provider agencies; special sports recreational and social program activities.
Mission: CLC Network promotes the development of people with a variety of abilities and disabilities to live as active, integrated members of their communities. We partner with families and organizations to understand more fully the individuals we serve and to build support systems that enable their inclusion in all aspects of life. Results: -More than 12 psychologists and teachers travel to more than 20 states and speak at more than 35 conferences and gatherings annually. -CLC Network helps thousands of students in 57 Network schools, in 4 states. -CLC Network carries more than 38 books, DVD??, and other items that provide information about and tools for inclusion. Target demographics: create inclusion for persons of all levels of ability and disability Direct beneficiaries per year: 47 partner schools, nearly 300 students through individual evaluations, and 2,000 congregations Geographic areas served: church and school communities Programs: school and church consultations, individual evaluations, book and DVD resources, professional development sessions and online, teacher-directed courses for middle school students.
Mission: To develop safe, affordable and permanent housing options for greene county consumers of behavioral health services Programs: Consumer housing: managing 18 housing units for the mental health and recovery board of clark, greene, and madison counties and owning/operating 23 units to provide permanent housing opportunities for individuals/families that have a household memeber diagnosed with a mental illness and are low-income. Housing solutions is currently in the process of securing an additional 8 hud housing units in which it will own/operate. Additional services in this program include: tenant-landlord liason support, rental search assistance and dispute resolution services. In 2015, the organization finished construction of columbus place, a 6-unit supportive housing apartment building, which will further the organizaton's mission.
Mission: Entrust community services is committed to enriching the live of people with disabilities by promoting creative employment, education and health options that foster integration into their communities. Programs: Employment services and training - provision of a customer driven, community-based approach to helping people with barriers to employemtn, especially those with developmental disabilities improve their lives through education, training, employment, and involvement in the community. The employment and training services include the following: (1) job development - assistance to obtain and retain community employment. Working with individuals to identify their employable skills and help to market those skills to business in the community. (2) job coaching - support to employed individuals to help maintain employment through ongoing training and support.
Mission: Provide opportunities for individuals with disabilities to gain workplace skills and hold employment. Programs: The manufacturing division designs and crafts wood pallets, tree spreaders, and stakes. the supported employment service provides assessment, job and life skills training, and experience for individuals with disabilities in order to increase opportunities for employment and learning potential. the laundry service provides contract laundry services to hospitals and medical offices in yakima county.
Mission: To assist in the training and placement in productive employment individuals with significant barriers to employment. Programs: Literacy programs designed by the u. S. Department of labor that helps adults and families learn to read and to train them for the job market to implement programs for the s. D. Department of labor work enforcement that trains hard-to-place clients for the job market
Mission: The organization was established in 1996 to assist irish immigrants in their transition to life in the united states. We do this by offering a number of services including legal, social, psychological and educational. Programs: Programs operated from the center include professional counseling, computer classes, irish language, music and dancing lessons, mother & toddler programs and homeless programs.
