Our Day Service programs offer opportunities for adult individuals with ID/DD Disabilities to truly connect to and engage with their communities. Our Day Services allows for individuals to be engaged in the community as part of a group of their peers, or on a 1:1 with just the participant and our Highly Trained and Experienced support staff in a Center-Based or Non-Center Based Day Support Setting.
These exciting services treat the community itself as a learning environment to build/develop adequate supports that lead to building independence, developing relationships, learning your community and various resources throughout your community.
Activities
- Volunteering
- Educational activities and events
- Health and wellness activities
- Cultural or spiritual activities
- Activities that develop self-advocacy and communication skills
- Activities that develop or strengthen relationships with family, friends and neighbors.
- Building/Increasing Independence within a community-based setting.
- Transition from vehicles to unfamiliar locations
- Parking lot safety
- Maintaining socially appropriate physical space
- Managing voice volume in quiet locations
- Socially acceptable rules of engagement for talking to strangers
- Tolerance for new, unfamiliar environments
- Understanding purchases (budgeting, needing money, check out procedures)
- Increasing confidence when interacting with community members
- Using a cellphone
- Using alternate communication methods (AAC) to interact with community members
- Driving a power wheelchair
- Navigating a crowd without stress
- Increasing independence with community chores
- Staying calm when stressed
- Asking for help
- Recognizing stressors and learning ways to avoid them
- Interacting more effectively with others
- Interpersonal skills (what to do with strangers, how to introduce yourself)
- Healthy Relationships (boundaries, how to identify people you trust and can gain help from)
- Coping Strategies (learning to identify discomfort and ask for help)
- Self-Regulation tools (mindfulness, taking deep breaths, calming down safely)
- Socially acceptable rules of engagement for talking to strangers
- How to use sensory related activities and materials
- Learning to use technology – (computers, adapted equipment, iPads, phones, etc)
- Building patience and tolerance
- Building confidence
- Working on negotiation strategies
- Understanding consequences through introduction of contingency mapping
- Implementation of communication supports
- Increased independence
- Opportunities to demonstrate competence and gain respect
- Discovery of conditions necessary for community success
- Learning to use social media to keep in touch and build friendships