ADULT TRAINING CENTER SERVICES      EMPLOYMENT SERVICES (DDD & DVRS)      CRAFTERS PROGRAM SERVICES


ADULT TRAINING CENTER SERVICES


ADULT TRAINING PROGRAM


Provides program assessment and training for adults with disabilities through:
  • Habilitation, developing marketable skills through crafts, maintenance, and sub contract in order to learn appropriate vocational
    skills and attitudes.
  • Personal awareness, focusing on personal care and appearance, socialization and communication skills, and community awareness.
  • Practical Arts, training in meal planning and preparation, and home maintenance skills.
Consumer to staff ratio for this program is 6 to 1.


ADULT TRAINING PROGRAM SPECIAL NEEDS


Within the Adult Training Program a more intensive Special Needs Program, provides support, training and community integration to
adults with disabilities who have autism.
Consumer to staff ratio for this program is 3 to 1.




EMPLOYMENT SERVICES


DIVISION OF DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES


As part of our services, Pathways provides DDD consumers services which help the consumers develop vocational skills and learn how
to use community resources; supported employment services , which help the consumer develop job skills, such as group interaction,
teach the consumer about volunteerism, and offer job coaching to help consumers remain employed. Extended employment takes place at
pathways workshops, where individuals receive work-related training, such as learning how to package and assemble products, as well
as job counseling and job referrals supported employment services include on-site job coaches; crew work, in which an individual works
as part of a peer group; and arrangements in which a consumer can sample different jobs to find a good "fit."

DIVISION OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION


Our services extend to DVRS consumers. Our goal at Pathways is to enable individuals with disabilities to achieve employment outcomes
consistent with their strengths, priorities, needs, abilities and capabilities.

We are here to help individuals with disabilities that are having trouble finding or holding a job because of their disability.  Click here to
learn more about this service.


CRAFTERS PROGRAM SERVICES





Pathways provides services to assist persons who are blind and or visually impaired.  Craft Coordinators assist these consumers to
develop the skills which enable them to produce craft and specialty items to be sold at craft shows throughout the state.

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