Services
Adult Day Services – Community Participation Support
DES provides services for adults with intellectual disabilities utilizing a wide assortment of activities and opportunities to promote functional skill development. Services are center and community based, Monday through Friday, twelve months a year. Supports are individualized and self-determined by each participant.
Supported Employment - Office of Developmental Programs
Career Assessment: Service used to identify career options based on the skills and interest of the participant.
Job Finding or Development: Variety of activities and services to match the participant with a potential employer.
Job Coaching and Support: Training the participant on specific job assignments and providing periodic or ongoing support as needed.
Job Mentoring: A short-term service provided to an individual who needs support completing a specific job task. Ex: making a resume.
Job Retention: A service to assist an individual to keep a job or improve if they are in jeopardy of losing it.
Intermittent Supported Employment: A service for an individual who already has employment and just needs help with a specific thing sporadically.
Supported Employment - Office of Vocational Rehab
We now offer many of the above Employment Services through OVR as well.
Our first My Work Initiative Program happened last summer at Chestnuthill Township.
State and federal Funding pays for OVR services.
Ask your OVR case manager how you can work with DES!
Sources of Funding