Day Training and Habilitation Services

• Supervision, training and assistance in the areas of self-care, communication, socialization and behavior management
• Supported employment and work-related activities
• Community integrated activities, including the use of leisure and recreation time
• Training in community survival skills, money management and therapeutic activities that increase the adaptive living skills of an individual
• Non – medical transportation services to enable persons to participate in above listed services

Prevocational Services
Services include teaching such concepts as:

• Attendance
• Attention span
• Motor skills
• Problem solving
• Safety
• Task completion

Supported Employment Services

• Individual and group counseling
• Individual work related assessment
• Individual job development and job placement activities that produce an appropriate job match for the person and the employer
• Mobility training
• On the job training in work and related skills required for job performance
• Supervision and monitoring of a person’s performance on-going
• Support services long term to assure job retention
• Training in related skills essential to obtaining and retaining employment such as the effective use of community resources
• Training in the use of break and lunch areas
• Training to access various transportation resources

This service is intended to:

• Create opportunities for person to have freedom and authority to direct their supports
• Increase a person’s support network by providing opportunities for building ongoing relationships at work
• Promote choices for persons to choose their supported employment provider and where they want to work
• Provide opportunities for paid employment in a community setting
• Provide opportunities that routinely, as part of their job tasks, expose them to interactions with coworkers without disabilities who are not paid caregivers

Structured Day Services
Structured Day program services include supervision and specific training to allow the person to attain maximum potential and include:

• Reduction/elimination of maladaptive behavior
• Sensory/motor development
• Social skills training
• Services aimed at preparing the individual for community integration such as teaching concepts, which may include:
  1. attending
  2. money management
  3. problem solving
  4. safety
  5. task completion

Vocational Services
Fillmore County DAC assists persons 18 years or older to find meaningful community employment. Enclaves, or work crews, work together with their job coach to complete each job. All of our employers in the community are very supportive and appreciate the value and quality of work done by the important people of the Fillmore County DAC. Our Designated Coordinators and Job Coaches provide the initial and on-going training that is needed for the person(s) to be successful on the job. For those not ready to work out in the community, we provide in-center work. This might be a better fit for some individuals.

Recreation Program
Some of the individuals we serve are in the Recreation Program. This program is for persons who no longer wish to work or are retired, and for persons who just want to enjoy life. In the Recreation Program, persons enjoy going out for lunch and coffee, going bowling, watching movies, going for walks, campground visits, spring and summer planting, and working on skills and activities that enhance the person’s quality of life.

If you are interested in signing up for our services please contact the local County Social Services agency for more information about the application process.