AKA:

Community Day and Employee Development Services

Description:

Provides individuals with disabilities with programs that will help them gain independence. Services include:
- Life skills classes
- Employment preparation
- Creative expression
- Training/assistance with personal care
- Referrals to healthcare, financial, legal, and residential services

The Life Skills program is designed to enhance:
- Self-advocacy
- Communication
- Independence

Participants are engaged in activities such as:
- Cooking
- music
- Community planning
- Physical fitness
- And rights, responsibilities and relationships.

Employee Development Services (EDS) provides a transitional training program. EDS helps develop
- Basic interpersonal skills
- Attitudes
- Work behaviors
EDS prepares individuals for the Employment First Program.

Horticulture program helps develop skills in gardening and landscaping:
- General horticulture skills
- The life cycle of plants care
- Maintenance of indoor plants and outdoor gardening.

Offers work in a team environment to maintain a garden and engage in social interaction with volunteers. Instructional classes, participants have full involvement in the:
- Planning
- Planting
- Care of two fields in which they grow vegetables, fruits, herbs, and flowers.

Center For The Arts provides new possibilities for communication and expression. The center cultivates an individual!€™s unique talent and creates a sense of empowerment and accomplishment. mmunication and expression. The center cultivates an individual!€™s unique talent and creates a sense of empowerment and accomplishment.

Eligibility:

Must be a Lake County resident who is 22 years or older with a disability

Languages:

None

Program Fees:

Call for Program Fees

Intake Process:

Call for an intake packet and updates about capacity

Handicap Accessible?

Yes

Wishlist:

None

Volunteer Opportunities:

Contact Name for Volunteer Opportunities: Jeff Englehardt at 847-540-3708 or jenglehardt@littlecity.org

Date of Official Change:

November 8, 2023

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