Seagull Services

Community and facility - based day program: adults with significant disabilities, ages ranging from ages twenty-two to over seventy, are offered life enhancing goal directed day programming, supported employment and/or shelter work to meet the needs and desires of the individuals served. Programming varies from paid work, basic education, vocational and pre-vocational activities in stimulating facility-based or community settings geared to maintaining and increasing their intellectual and physical well-being and improving the participant's quality of life. Examples of the activities include, but are not limited to, creative expression with emphasis on visual arts, physical activities, visiting museums, parties, life-skill training, and social activities in the community, as well as special programs for senior adults.

Supported employment: Seagull assisted unemployed or underemployed adults with barriers to employment to obtain key work-related skills and find and maintain employment. This is accomplished through vocational assessment, job placement, introductory computer skills training, pre-employment skills training, counseling, job coaching, assessment and follow-along Services.

Education: Seagull operates a charter school known as sail (Seagull academy for independent living.) Sail is organized to educate children with learning disabilities to help each student transition successfully to adult living through an academic and vocational curriculum, internships, community-based training, and extracurricular activities with an emphasis on arts and sports as well as a job placement and supported employment programs that are integral to the mission and outcomes. Over 50% of the students are employed by the time they finish school. Students also participated in a curriculum developed to expand teaching and internship opportunities to include greenhouse growing and technology.