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Intensive Adult Habilitation: This service provides training to adults who are not ready for vocationally oriented programs. Many individuals have few self-help skills. Some may have physical handicaps, and others, extremely challenging behaviors. Higher staff ratios exist to meet more intensive training needs. The goal is to prepare individuals to move to vocational services.
| Work Services:
Most of the adults we serve are actively involved in work services. A.W.A.R.E.’s Work Services Center provides a range of programs from work readiness, job skill training and production, and individuals are paid according to their efforts. The goal is to prepare individuals for supported or competitive employment. Work services currently revolve around A.W.A.R.E. recycling, mobile work crews, and enclaves.
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Adult Residential Services
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Intensive Community Home:
This home serves adults who may be challenged as the result of a lack of ability in the area of self-help skills and have developed behaviors as a means of coping.
More intensive training is provided and higher staff ratios exist. The goal is to prepare the individuals to move to a less restrictive residential environment.
| Adult Group Homes:
A.W.A.R.E. adult group homes are capable of serving eight adults. Training is provided in independent living skills such as home safety, cooking, housekeeping, leisure and recreational skills and money management. The goal is to enable individuals to live more independently within this supervised environment.
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Supported Living/Community Supports: Supported living provides a specialized array of services and supports that promotes individual choices, independence and safety in integrated environments in the community.
| Supported Employment:
A.W.A.R.E. supported employment services provide job placement for individuals in the community. Our service assists persons with disabilities who require ongoing support on and/or off the job in order to choose, obtain and retain paid employment in integrated settings. Job training and “follow along” services are provided. Support and assistance to employers is a key element.
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Transportation Services
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Ancillary Transportation:
Individuals within the A.W.A.R.E. service system are provided with daily transportation as needed. This includes - but is not limited to - work, medical appointments, recreation, leisure, and community integration. A.W.A.R.E. offers specialized transportation tailored to the needs of those being served.
| Contract Transportation:
Several other provider organizations in the area utilize A.W.A.R.E. transportation to provide access to the community for the individuals they serve.
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