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Provides outpatient behavioral health services to those in need. Services include counseling (both individual and group), therapy, supported employment for individuals with mental and behavioral health challenges, and psychosocial rehabilitation (groups to help people with daily living skills and mental illness recovery).

Services

General Counseling Services
Supported Employment
Supported employment provides vocational services which promote and support inclusion within the community. Encourages and assists people in obtaining jobs in the community or running their own small business. The focus is on assessing interest, job placement, and job coaching.

Job coaching provides training for clients to perform job tasks to the employer's specifications and to learn the interpersonal skills necessary to be accepted as workers at the job site.

Vocational centers provide training to teach people vocational skills and an opportunity to earn an income through completion of contract work.

Services

Vocational Rehabilitation
Supported Employment
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Retail store and donation center for clothing, household items, and more.

Offers a Disability Access Point, or "DAP", which help people with disabilities, their families, and their caregivers find the services and support they need-both short-term and long-term. DAPs help by giving information, making plans, making referrals and checking in to make sure people are getting the right support to live healthy, independent lives.

Can help with the following services:

- Information and Assistance - based on presented and identified needs, provides information about programs and services, and helps to connect individuals to service providers in their communities.

- Options Counseling - provides guidance to individuals so that they may make informed choices about supports and services, typically over a period of 90 days or less. This includes benefits screening and application assistance for programs and services and follow-ups to make sure supports and decisions are assisting the individual.

- Financial Assistance - provides gap funding and service coordination for programs and services that support individuals and their caregivers so that individuals may live in the home and community of their choice. Help with short-term services and long term services are also provided.

Short-term supports (time-limited) include adaptive and assistive equipment, home and vehicle modifications, peer and parent support services, rent assistance, transportation assistance, and other basic needs (not covered by insurance).

Long-term services and supports includes adult day programs, consumer-directed attendant care (CDAC) (non-skilled and skilled), day habilitation, employment like job skills training, prevocational services, and supported employment, intensive residential services (IRSH), personal response systems, respite services like in-home, in-facility, and day camps, supported community living (SCL) and home-based habilitation (hourly), and residential living settings.

Services

Respite Care Subsidies
Benefits Screening
Intermediate Care Facility/DD Transition Financing Programs
Prevocational Training
Aging and Disability Resource Centers
Home Barrier Removal Grants
General Household Goods Provision
Specialized Information and Referral
Supported Employment
Nursing Home Transition Financing Programs
Rent Payment Assistance
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Long Term Care Options Counseling
Transportation Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Community-based services and support to persons of all ages with developmental disabilities. Services includes Vocational training and employment services.

Adult leisure and recreational center for individuals who have reached retirement age. Clients are served through an alternative day program that emphasizes recreation, leisure, and maintenance of daily living skills. Alternative day services are also available for other adults whose needs do not include vocational or employment goals.

Services

Day Treatment for Adults With Developmental Disabilities
Vocational Rehabilitation
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Supported Employment
Global Executive Council Services' (GEC) Milestone Program is the cornerstone program of GEC that assists individuals with disabilities in obtaining and maintaining community-based competitive employment and measures success at 15, 45, and 90 days of competitive employment.
Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) helps people with disabilities find and keep jobs. Through their Transition and STEP programs they help high school students who have disabilities plan for their futures after high school graduation. The Work Incentive Planning and Assistance Program helps people who receive SSDI/SSI benefits understand how working will affect their benefits. The Supported Employment Program (SEP) serves eligible people with significant disabilities who want to go to work and need on-going support services to succeed on the job.
Garden Center Services' Supported Employment Program is a creative approach to employment for people with disabilities and a valuable resource for local businesses. Employees receive individualized job skills training and on-the-job support to ensure their performance meets employer expectations and encourages job retention.
Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) helps people with disabilities find and keep jobs. Through their Transition and STEP programs they help high school students who have disabilities plan for their futures after high school graduation. The Work Incentive Planning and Assistance Program helps people who receive SSDI/SSI benefits understand how working will affect their benefits. The Supported Employment Program (SEP) serves eligible people with significant disabilities who want to go to work and need on-going support services to succeed on the job.

Services

Vocational Rehabilitation
Supported Employment
Welfare Rights Assistance
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.
- 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.

Services

Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Volunteer Opportunities
Autism Therapy
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Supported Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs

Offers a Disability Access Point, or "DAP", which help people with disabilities, their families, and their caregivers find the services and support they need-both short-term and long-term. DAPs help by giving information, making plans, making referrals and checking in to make sure people are getting the right support to live healthy, independent lives.

Can help with the following services:

- Information and Assistance - based on presented and identified needs, provides information about programs and services, and helps to connect individuals to service providers in their communities.

- Options Counseling - provides guidance to individuals so that they may make informed choices about supports and services, typically over a period of 90 days or less. This includes benefits screening and application assistance for programs and services and follow-ups to make sure supports and decisions are assisting the individual.

- Financial Assistance - provides gap funding and service coordination for programs and services that support individuals and their caregivers so that individuals may live in the home and community of their choice. Help with short-term services and long term services are also provided.

Short-term supports (time-limited) include adaptive and assistive equipment, home and vehicle modifications, peer and parent support services, rent assistance, transportation assistance, and other basic needs (not covered by insurance).

Long-term services and supports includes adult day programs, consumer-directed attendant care (CDAC) (non-skilled and skilled), day habilitation, employment like job skills training, prevocational services, and supported employment, intensive residential services (IRSH), personal response systems, respite services like in-home, in-facility, and day camps, supported community living (SCL) and home-based habilitation (hourly), and residential living settings.

Services

Nursing Home Transition Financing Programs
Long Term Care Options Counseling
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Respite Care Subsidies
Intermediate Care Facility/DD Transition Financing Programs
Rent Payment Assistance
Specialized Information and Referral
Benefits Screening
Prevocational Training
Home Barrier Removal Grants
General Household Goods Provision
Transportation Expense Assistance
Supported Employment
Aging and Disability Resource Centers
- Behavioral Health Outpatient Children's Program: Variety of services for children and their families. Services include therapy, parenting education and skill building, consultation to schools and other agencies, psychiatric services, etc. - Case Management: Assistance with obtaining insurance and other benefits. Linkage and referral to other community services. - Health Services: Medication management and administration. Dieticians also available. - Individual and Group Counseling. - Supported employment for individuals with mental and behavioral health challenges. - Psychosocial Rehabilitation: Groups to help people with daily living skills and mentall illness recovery. - Substance Use Treatment. - Telehealth Services.

Services

Supported Employment
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Comprehensive Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Prescription Medication Monitoring Systems
Telemental Health
General Counseling Services
Nutrition Education
Substance Use Disorder Counseling
Psychiatric Day Treatment
Adolescent/Youth Counseling
Medicaid Information/Counseling
Information and Referral
Supports individuals with disabilities and other needs in finding community-based jobs in businesses of their choosing. To do this, staff get to know a person outside of work, assess their interests, skills, and goals, look at their home environment, and find out when and where they are at their best. Staff then offer individualized training to improve skills as well as the opportunity to learn about different types of work by visiting businesses or trying out a job for 10 days.
Provides services that are designed to give individuals with disabilities the opportunity to obtain employment in the community.

Offers a Disability Access Point, or "DAP", which help people with disabilities, their families, and their caregivers find the services and support they need-both short-term and long-term. DAPs help by giving information, making plans, making referrals and checking in to make sure people are getting the right support to live healthy, independent lives.

Can help with the following services:

- Information and Assistance - based on presented and identified needs, provides information about programs and services, and helps to connect individuals to service providers in their communities.

- Options Counseling - provides guidance to individuals so that they may make informed choices about supports and services, typically over a period of 90 days or less. This includes benefits screening and application assistance for programs and services and follow-ups to make sure supports and decisions are assisting the individual.

- Financial Assistance - provides gap funding and service coordination for programs and services that support individuals and their caregivers so that individuals may live in the home and community of their choice. Help with short-term services and long term services are also provided.

Short-term supports (time-limited) include adaptive and assistive equipment, home and vehicle modifications, peer and parent support services, rent assistance, transportation assistance, and other basic needs (not covered by insurance).

Long-term services and supports includes adult day programs, consumer-directed attendant care (CDAC) (non-skilled and skilled), day habilitation, employment like job skills training, prevocational services, and supported employment, intensive residential services (IRSH), personal response systems, respite services like in-home, in-facility, and day camps, supported community living (SCL) and home-based habilitation (hourly), and residential living settings.

Services

Utility Service Payment Assistance
General Household Goods Provision
Specialized Information and Referral
Home Barrier Removal Grants
Prevocational Training
Intermediate Care Facility/DD Transition Financing Programs
Supported Employment
Rent Payment Assistance
Long Term Care Options Counseling
Aging and Disability Resource Centers
Respite Care Subsidies
Transportation Expense Assistance
Nursing Home Transition Financing Programs
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Benefits Screening
Helps people with disabilities find employment in many different settings (office, food service, retail, manufacturing, etc). Services are offered to help individuals build the skills they will need to get and keep employment.
Job placement and maintenance services assist people in obtaining community employment. Participants receive individualized and group support in resume development, job search and interviewing strategies, and networking. Job Placement Specialists help participants assess their strengths and needs, set personal goals, and explore their vocational interests. Staff also connect job seekers to area employers.

Certified for Success employment training programs include retail, hospitality, food handling, essential computer skills, IT Support Professional, and custodial certification programs. A combination of onsite and classroom training helps prepare participants for success.

Services

Supported Employment
Vocational Assessment
Prevocational Training
Job Search/Placement
Provides people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities support to volunteer and obtain employment in a healthcare environment.
Designed to help gain specific skills necessary to meet the requirements of competitive employment in their chosen field. Trainees receive one-on-one support from an employment adviser who helps the trainees learn and identify compensatory strategies to improve their job success.
Supported Employment: St. Louis Arc offers individualized assessment, career development, on-the-job support and consultation for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The Arc also offers employment services for people with high functioning autism.
Sheltered Workshop employing mentally challenged adults residing in Butler County, MO (must be a resident). The employees work 30 hours per week, and transportation is provided to and from the center.
Individuals receive support through job assessments, individual community employment, work crews, and enclaves.
Supported Employment: A program designed to meet the employment needs of individuals with developmental disabilities. The components involved are discovery and exploration, job development, job coaching and long-term retention.
Vocational support to help people prepare and maintain meaningful employment.