Our Program
Core programs objectives are:
- Work
- Goal: Participants will learn the skills necessary to work in natural work settings as independently as possible.
- Objectives:
- Increase job skills of the participants
- Increase supported work opportunities in local community
- Provide training and ongoing support to businesses to support inclusion Seek out and support job matches that are beneficial to the participant and business
- Provide ongoing support to businesses and participants as identified
- Transit Training
- Goal: Participants will learn how to take public transportation to their individual level of independence.
- Objectives:
- Learn the skills necessary to move effectively and safely from place to place within the local community (e.g., in school, in the home, at work, and in the community)
- Increase skills and experiences so that participants can utilize public transportation.
- Recreation
- Goal:Participants will engage in recreation activities that reflect participants personal preferences.
- Objectives:
- To support participants with a range of activities to be physically active in daily life
- Increase support to recreational programs including ID persons
- Increase life skills , leisure and recreational activities of participants
- Volunteering
- Goal: Each participant will serve the community by participating as a volunteer in a community service agency.
- Objectives:
- Volunteer activities/opportunities be chosen and arranged to match the capacities, support needs, and interests of each participant.
- Create a partnership with volunteer agencies that will encourage and support participants contributions
- Provide training and ongoing support to volunteer agencies to support inclusion
- Literacy
- Goal:Participants will engage in learning activities that develop their literacy and communication skills.
- Objectives:
Improve reading and writing
- to organize life,
- for personal communication,
- private leisure
- making sense of information or situations in every day life
- Social network
- Goal: Participants will develop friendships with same aged peers in a variety of natural social environments.
- Objectives:
- Provide the link and support so friendships can develop
- Provide social opportunities in natural setting
- Encourage regular, frequent contact based on common interest and fun
- Interaction as the priority
Core Programs of ABLE Network are designed and implemented to:
- Support the well being of the participant served
- Ensure safety of participant as they gain life skills leading towards independence
- Enhance the quality of life of participant
- Reduce needs and build resiliency of participant
- Improve participants functioning in community
- Support inclusion into the community