Connect to Community

http://www.connecttocommunityinc.org

Mission: Connect to Community is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to finding and facilitating purposeful employment and enjoyment for adults with developmental disabilities. Further, in an effort to help these adults live the lives they desire and deserve within the community, we will provide person-centered services across all aspects of community life.

Vocational Evaluation and Placement

www.vocamotive.com
Vocamotive provides vocational evaluation, planning and placement services customized to individual needs. Evaluation is useful in IEP development, long term planning, and entry to the world of work.

Services can include vocational assessment; employability evaluation; job target identification; developing internship, training, and customized employment; job seeking skills instruction; job coaching; referral and advocacy services.

Villa Esperanza Services

http://www.villaesperanzaservices.org/
We’ve never counted exactly how many doors we have – but we do know how many people have passed through them. During the past year, more than 1050 children, adults, seniors and their families have taken advantage of the programs and services offered behind the many doors at Villa Esperanza Services.

Utah Parent Center

http://www.utahparentcenter.org/
The mission of the Utah Parent Center (UPC or Center) is to help parents help their children with disabilities to live included, productive lives as members of the community. We accomplish our mission by providing accurate information, empathetic peer support, valuable training, and effective advocacy based on the concept of parents helping parents. Utah’s federally funded Parent Training and Information Center provides free parent consultations, workshops, presentations and webinars, as well as information and referral including a website to serve parents of children, youth, and young adults with all disabilities throughout the state of Utah. Check out the Annual Family Links Statewide Conference.

Ukiah Valley Association for Habilitation

http://www.uvah.org/
The primary purpose of UVAH is to help people with disabilities meet their full potential as individuals and productive citizens in our community by providing a wide range of services, a supportive environment and by educating and involving the community in an effort to integrate people with disabilities into community life.

The Hatlen Center for the Blind

http://www.hcblind.org/
The Hatlen Center for the Blind (originally the Living Skills Center for the Visually Impaired) was founded in 1972 by Dr. Philip Hatlen. In the 1970′s, thousands of children blinded by an epidemic of Retinopathy of Prematurity were graduating from high school. At the time, rehabilitation counselors, social workers, and others involved in services for adults who are blind had serious concerns about what was to become of these young people and how they could best be helped.

The Arc of San Diego

http://www.arc-sd.com/
The Arc of San Diego, a private, not-for-profit corporation, is one of the region’s largest human-service agencies. Founded in 1951 by a determined group of people who felt they had to “do something” for children with mental retardation, Arc blends a long history of service with a national reputation for success. Today, we are guided by the same sense of purpose and dedication that inspired those parents over forty years ago.

SL Start and Associates

http://www.slstart.com/
StartLiving® is an array of personalized services for children and adults with developmental disabilities.StartCommunities are distinctive senior living communities developed and managed by SL Start to offer secure long-term housing and services. StartWorks removes barriers for people who want to work.StartDirections™ is a specialized training program designed to build on the talents of each employee.

Shepherds Ministries Inc.

http://www.shepherdsministries.org/
Shepherds Ministries, a nationally recognized organization founded on Jeremiah 23:4, provides compassionate Christian care, vocational education and job opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities, helping them attain Appropriate Independence with fulfilling jobs and lives, while also providing for their spiritual development

Paul Simon Chicago Jobs Corps

http://jobcorps.dol.gov
Life at a Job Corps center can be an exciting and educational experience. A Job Corps center is a great place to complete an education, learn a marketable trade, make lifetime friends and graduate with a good job in hand

MGB Services, Inc.

http://www.mgb-services.com
MGB Services Inc. (MGB) is dedicated to helping families of children with special needs find enthusiastic, reliable people to work with children. MGB also offers families and special recreation/leisure organizations assistance in the areas of academic, social, and behavior concerns. Home based programs are beneficial to the education and successful functioning of many children.

Job Opportunities for the Blind

https://nfb.org/
National Federation of the Blind is the largest and most influential membership organization of blind people in the United States. The NFB improves blind people’s lives through advocacy, education, research, technology, and programs encouraging independence and self-confidence.

JJ’s List

http://www.jjslist.com/
JJ’s List is an integrated, non-profit social enterprise that combines social media and education to build disability awareness and promote community inclusion and employment of people with disabilities. JJslist.com connects thousands of companies and organizations to consumers and employees with disabilities through the Disability-Aware Business Directory, the blogosphere, and Disability Awareness Trainings.

Independent Living Experience

http://www.independentlivingexperience.com
Independent Living Experience (ILE) is a customized support service for adults desiring a life of independence. Our team of dedicated professionals works directly with each adult to help them become their own self-determined advocate with the necessary skills to be successful within their living, working, and social environments.

Hope Center

http://www.hopecenterinc.org/
Hope Center is a community-based agency dedicated to meeting the needs of gifted children, individuals with developmental disabilities and developmental delays at-risk, and persons in need of specialized vocational or educational services. These services are provided in order to develop, maintain, and enhance the functioning of each enrollee. The philosophy of service is to admit individuals to programs within our agency which meet their needs and requirements as specifically as possible.

Do-It-Leisure: Work Training Center

http://www.wtcinc.org/
Serving Butte County since 1949, Work Training Center is a non-profit organization. Governed by a local Board of Directors, we are dedicated to meeting the training, vocational, and recreational needs of local adults with disabilities. Work Training Center serves over 600 people. Facilities are located in Chico, Oroville, and Paradise, with services provided throughout Butte County.

Little Friends

http://www.littlefriendsinc.org/
Little Friends, Inc. is a private, non-profit organization serving children and adults with developmental, emotional or behavioral disabilities. Based in Naperville, Illinois, Little Friends operates 14 programs including early intervention, alternative schools, family support, vocational training, and community-based residential services.

Adelante Development Center

http://www.goadelante.org/
Adelante offers a wide variety of services to meet the needs and goals of people with disabilties.We offer vocational and life skills training, community living services, vocational training, supported employment, and we also provide a large variety of day services.

Palm Beach Habilitation Center

http://www.pbhab.com/
Opportunities for work training and employment are a major focus of services at the Center. Training and employment are provided by the Work Operations Division on the main campus where men and women can earn pay for work performed on contracts obtained from local industry.

Goodwill Industries of New Mexico

http://www.goodwillnm.org/
Goodwill Industries of New Mexico has many programs to help people get jobs, get training, and get back on the road to self-sufficiency. Each program is customized to emphasize your strengths while providing assistance to overcome barriers. You may participate in one or more based on your individual needs, abilities and choice. Services we provide include: Job Placement & Job Retention, Workforce Skills Training, Situational Assessment, Work Adjustment, Case Management, Senior Community Service Employment Program, and Pathways to Home.

Pueblo Diversified Industries

http://www.pdipueblo.net/
Every day at Pueblo Diversified Industries (PDI) more than 300 people come to work in a wide variety of jobs. Most are challenged by some form of physical or mental limitation that must be overcome each day. At PDI we help our people leave limitations at the door by providing challenges, opportunities, income, enrichment and even excitement through work and life-enhancing opportunities both in-house and within the community.

Foothill Vocational Opportunities

https://www.guidestar.org/profile/95-2375691

Foothill Vocational Opportunities maximizes the personal and economic potential of disabled individuals by creating meaningful employment opportunities. Foothill provides our clients and their families with the tools they need to live fuller, richer lives, bringing a sense of inclusion and dignity to a chronically marginalized and underserved group of people.

PRIDE Industries

http://www.prideindustries.com/
For more than 42 years, PRIDE Industries has been providing business and service solutions differently. HOW? By fulfilling our clients’ business needs with unsurpassed purpose and passion while creating meaningful jobs for people with disabilities.

Society for The Blind

http://www.societyfortheblind.org/
Society for the Blind serves thousands of blind and visually impaired people throughout the Sacramento area and surrounding counties. We are the only center in this region that trains blind and low vision people on Braille, life skills, computers and job skills. Our mission is to empower individuals who are blind or have low vision to live productively and independently by building confidence through training, tools and mentorship.

Arizona Industries for the Blind

https://www.azifb.com
Arizona Industries for the Blind was established in 1952 to provide employment and training opportunities for Arizonans who are legally blind. Most individuals of working age who are legally blind can compete successfully for good jobs if they’re given the opportunity to develop skills and increase their self-confidence.

Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities

https://vkc.vumc.org/vkc/ucedd
Provides exemplary model services and technical assistance, offers interdisciplinary training, conducts research, and disseminates information and resources related to developmental disabilities. Also a national Intelllectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center. The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center is a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service. We work with and for people with disabilities and family members, service providers and advocates, researchers and policy makers.

The Center for Discovery

http://www.thecenterfordiscovery.org/
The Center is a private, not for profit Pediatric and Adult center located in the Catskill Mountians. Our unique, totally accessible campus, small homelike residences and innovative educational programs provide a supportive environment where individuals thrive by developing relationships, learning and growing, as well as fostering new skills.

Southwestern Blind Rehabilitation Center

http://www.rehab.va.gov/blindrehab/
The mission of Blind Rehabilitation Service is to coordinate a healthcare service delivery system that provides a continuum of care for blinded veterans extending from their home environment to the local VA facility and to the appropriate rehabilitation setting. These services include adjustment to blindness counseling, patient and family education, benefits analysis, comprehensive residential inpatient training, outpatient rehabilitation services, the provision of assistive technology, and research.

Seguin Services Inc.

http://www.seguin.org
Seguin Services is a charitable not-for-profit agency serving metropolitan Chicago, always striving to integrate, enrich, and empower people with disabilities. Seguin lives its mission of “supporting adults and children with disabilities and other special needs, enabling them to be productive, valued members of society.” Seguin creates job opportunities and housing options that lead to greater independence, so that men and women with developmental disabilities can live, work, and socialize as their neighbors do. In addition, Seguin provides safe and loving homes for children who have disabilities and serious medical or emotional conditions.

Idaho Commission For The Blind And Visually Impaired

http://www.icbvi.state.id.us/
Our mission is to empower persons who are blind or visually impaired by providing vocational rehabilitation training, skills training and educational opportunities to achieve self-fulfillment through quality employment and independent living; to serve as a resource to families and employers and to expand public awareness regarding the potential of all persons who are blind or visually impaired.

Community Enterprises

Provides supported education services in a community college setting, supported employment including job training, placement and folow up, transitional services from group homes and other settings to supported living within the community.

Respite Services, Shepherds Ministries Inc.

http://www.shepherdsministries.org/
Shepherds exists to glorify Jesus Christ by supporting people with developmental disabilities to reach their potential. It is our desire to be a pre-eminent provider of Christ-centered services for people with developmental disabilities in order to encourage them in a personal and growing relationship with Jesus Christ and support them in reaching Appropriate Independence. Shepherds Ministries, a nationally recognized organization founded on Jeremiah 23:4, provides compassionate Christian care, vocational education and job opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities, helping them attain Appropriate Independence with fulfilling jobs and lives, while also providing for their spiritual development.

Solutions at Santa Barbara

https://neurorestorative.com/state-location/winways/
Solutions at Santa Barbara is dedicated to help each client to achieve the highest level of functional independence possible. Our goals always involve returning to home, school, work and meaningful, productive activity. We encourage each client to develop original “solutions” to the problems they now face. Designed for individuals who are capable of benefitting from an active, “hands on” rehabilitative approach, Solutions at Santa Barbara offers highly personalized, comprehensive programs to meet the needs of individuals with traumatic brain injury, stroke, tumors, aneurysm, post concussive syndrome, Spinal Cord Injury, or other neurological disorders.

Sertoma Centre

http://www.sertomacentre.org/
Sertoma Centre, Inc., is a nationally accredited, not-for-profit agency that provides services to more than 650 individuals with developmental, physical and emotional disabilities, and/or mental illness. These services include vocational evaluation, developmental training, community-based assessments, senior programming, work adjustment training, residential services, janitorial skill training, foster care, job placement services, supported employment, specialized services, school transition services, psychosocial rehabilitation,autism services, and a sheltered workshop program.

Pine Caslte

http://www.pinecastle.org/
Pine Castle began as a school in 1952 to provide special education to children with developmental disabilities. We were founded by concerned parents who wanted their children to have the best possible education and opportunities in life. Today, we provide services to over 300 adults with developmental disabilities each year. We are one of the largest employers of people with disabilities in the Jacksonville area, and we are a nationally accredited organization.

People Services

http://www.peopleservices.org/
The mission of People Services, Inc., is to serve as the local community agency, providing the delivery of quality services for people with disabilities. Our purpose it to improve the quality of life for people with disabilities by providing services that promote life exploration and informed choices. To offer an array of service options that are designed to meet the needs, wants and desires of the person served.

Parents & Friends

http://www.parentsandfriends.org/
Parents & Friends, Inc. is a non-profit organization that has served people with developmental disabilities for over fifty years. Governed by a local Board of Directors, we are dedicated to our mission to provide opportunities for persons with developmental challenges and similar needs to participate fully in our community.

MacDonald Training Center

http://www.macdonaldcenter.org/
Independence is something that is important to us all. Our GateWay Services are designed to assist you in preparing to achieve greater independence so you may lead the life you choose. If you want to make decisions for yourself, be independent, and lead the life you choose…a home of your own and a meaningful job are important to you.

Laradon Hall Society for Exceptional Children and Adults

http://www.laradon.org/
Laradon specializes in services to children and adults with developmental disabilities. We operate 11 programs which are designed to help each individual develop to his or her fullest potential. Laradon is more than an organization, we are a support network made up of people who care – and are committed to helping people with developmental disabilities maximize their independence in a dynamic world.