Program areas at WWAARC
Individual residential alternatives - provides assistance with acquisition, retention and/or improvement of skills related to activities or daily living such as personal grooming, cleanliness, household chores, etc. Approximately 240 individuals served.
Day habilitation - provides integrated services and opportunities for individuals with developmental disabilities in order to maximize each person's capacity for growth, personal satisfaction, independence, and involvment in the greater community. Individually tailored programs that reflect each person's preferences, interest, and identified needs are created in order to enable individuals to realize their fullest potential. Approximately 240 individuals served.
Day training - provides individuals with developmental disabilities opportunities for developing vocational and social skills training. In order to enable individials to realize their fullest potential, real and simulated tasks and projects are offered with the goal to prepare people for employment in the greater community. Individualized and group skill-building focusing on personal strengths for inclusion in the greater community workforce. Opportunities for placement in community employment offer optimum support for individuals seeking to obtain and maintain employment. Approximately 112 individuals served.
Other services include medicaid service coordination and family support services. The medicaid service coordinator helps individuals and their families to develop, implement, and maintain the person's life plan, to advocate for him or her in all areas of life, especially in the two main areas of protecting and upholding personal rights, and ensuring that the living environment is safe. Our family support program provides families with the support services and relief needed so that they can remain and interact as a family as long as they desire. Respite services can take the form of individual or small group situations. Approximately 430 individuals served.