- Developmental Services and Community Integration: Provides skill training, paid work opportunities, community integration and employment to individuals in order to enhance and maintain their independence in community living. The program provides support, assistance and advocacy for individuals with developmental disabilities. - STARS (Structured Therapeutic Adult Recreation Services) Program: Collaboration between AID and Fox Valley Special Recreation Association. Focuses on active community integration, volunteer work and fitness activities for participants. - Autism Program: Emphasis placed on a specialized curriculum that includes communication skills, social and coping skills, functional life skills, community integration, vocational skills and volunteer opportunities. - Vocational Training: Assistance for individuals in obtaining and maintaining job training through subcontracts or community job sites. - Volunteer Sites: Used for the purpose of community integration as well as skill training. Clients learn social skills and an appreciation of giving back to the community as well as enhancing their vocational skills toward community employment. - Food Service: Trains clients in basic food service skills and positive work behaviors, enhances their independence and prepares them for community employment. Food Service also increases life-long learned skills, daily living skills and vocational skills.

The Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities prepares individuals with disabilities for successful and meaningful job placements and career opportunities, eliminates barriers and inequities, and ensures professional leadership development and advancement opportunities.

Provides employment opportunities to adults with developmental disabilities.

Provides opportunities for individuals with disabilities to learn various vocational job tasks in the day-to-day operation of a wholesale and retail greenhouse business. Team Members work a minimum of ten hours per month with a job coach, and receive a monthly paycheck.

Services include: - Employment opportunity analysis. - Personal employment planning. - Personal consulting and training to enhance job-seeking and retention skills. - Support for developing job preferences. - Disability awareness training. - Self-advocacy training. - Job development and placement. - Work orientation support. - On-site coaching services. - Follow-up consulting and assistance. - Job groups. - Work assessments.

Opportunities to gain job training and earn wages include: - Encore Thrift Store: Front-end positions at the thrift store. - Encore Sort: Back-end positions at the thrift store. - Encore Landscape Service: Yard maintenance and landscaping.

- Developmental Services and Community Integration: Provides skill training, paid work opportunities, community integration and employment to individuals in order to enhance and maintain their independence in community living. The program provides support, assistance and advocacy for individuals with developmental disabilities. - STARS (Structured Therapeutic Adult Recreation Services) Program: Collaboration between AID and Fox Valley Special Recreation Association. Focuses on active community integration, volunteer work and fitness activities for participants. - Autism Program: Emphasis placed on a specialized curriculum that includes communication skills, social and coping skills, functional life skills, community integration, vocational skills and volunteer opportunities. - Vocational Training: Assistance for individuals in obtaining and maintaining job training through subcontracts or community job sites. - Volunteer Sites: Used for the purpose of community integration as well as skill training. Clients learn social skills and an appreciation of giving back to the community as well as enhancing their vocational skills toward community employment. - Food Service: Trains clients in basic food service skills and positive work behaviors, enhances their independence and prepares them for community employment. Food Service also increases life-long learned skills, daily living skills and vocational skills.

- Developmental Services and Community Integration: Provides skill training, paid work opportunities, community integration and employment to individuals in order to enhance and maintain their independence in community living. The program provides support, assistance and advocacy for individuals with developmental disabilities. - STARS (Structured Therapeutic Adult Recreation Services) Program: Collaboration between AID and Fox Valley Special Recreation Association. Focuses on active community integration, volunteer work and fitness activities for participants. - Autism Program: Emphasis placed on a specialized curriculum that includes communication skills, social and coping skills, functional life skills, community integration, vocational skills and volunteer opportunities. - Vocational Training: Assistance for individuals in obtaining and maintaining job training through subcontracts or community job sites. - Volunteer Sites: Used for the purpose of community integration as well as skill training. Clients learn social skills and an appreciation of giving back to the community as well as enhancing their vocational skills toward community employment. - Food Service: Trains clients in basic food service skills and positive work behaviors, enhances their independence and prepares them for community employment. Food Service also increases life-long learned skills, daily living skills and vocational skills.

- Developmental Services and Community Integration: Provides skill training, paid work opportunities, community integration and employment to individuals in order to enhance and maintain their independence in community living. The program provides support, assistance and advocacy for individuals with developmental disabilities. - STARS (Structured Therapeutic Adult Recreation Services) Program: Collaboration between AID and Fox Valley Special Recreation Association. Focuses on active community integration, volunteer work and fitness activities for participants. - Autism Program: Emphasis placed on a specialized curriculum that includes communication skills, social and coping skills, functional life skills, community integration, vocational skills and volunteer opportunities. - Vocational Training: Assistance for individuals in obtaining and maintaining job training through subcontracts or community job sites. - Volunteer Sites: Used for the purpose of community integration as well as skill training. Clients learn social skills and an appreciation of giving back to the community as well as enhancing their vocational skills toward community employment. - Food Service: Trains clients in basic food service skills and positive work behaviors, enhances their independence and prepares them for community employment. Food Service also increases life-long learned skills, daily living skills and vocational skills.

- Developmental Services and Community Integration: Provides skill training, paid work opportunities, community integration and employment to individuals in order to enhance and maintain their independence in community living. The program provides support, assistance and advocacy for individuals with developmental disabilities. - STARS (Structured Therapeutic Adult Recreation Services) Program: Collaboration between AID and Fox Valley Special Recreation Association. Focuses on active community integration, volunteer work and fitness activities for participants. - Autism Program: Emphasis placed on a specialized curriculum that includes communication skills, social and coping skills, functional life skills, community integration, vocational skills and volunteer opportunities. - Vocational Training: Assistance for individuals in obtaining and maintaining job training through subcontracts or community job sites. - Volunteer Sites: Used for the purpose of community integration as well as skill training. Clients learn social skills and an appreciation of giving back to the community as well as enhancing their vocational skills toward community employment. - Food Service: Trains clients in basic food service skills and positive work behaviors, enhances their independence and prepares them for community employment. Food Service also increases life-long learned skills, daily living skills and vocational skills.

- Developmental Services and Community Integration: Provides skill training, paid work opportunities, community integration and employment to individuals in order to enhance and maintain their independence in community living. The program provides support, assistance and advocacy for individuals with developmental disabilities. - STARS (Structured Therapeutic Adult Recreation Services) Program: Collaboration between AID and Fox Valley Special Recreation Association. Focuses on active community integration, volunteer work and fitness activities for participants. - Autism Program: Emphasis placed on a specialized curriculum that includes communication skills, social and coping skills, functional life skills, community integration, vocational skills and volunteer opportunities. - Vocational Training: Assistance for individuals in obtaining and maintaining job training through subcontracts or community job sites. - Volunteer Sites: Used for the purpose of community integration as well as skill training. Clients learn social skills and an appreciation of giving back to the community as well as enhancing their vocational skills toward community employment. - Food Service: Trains clients in basic food service skills and positive work behaviors, enhances their independence and prepares them for community employment. Food Service also increases life-long learned skills, daily living skills and vocational skills.