Employment, Rehabilitative and Training Services, Persons with Disabilities

Friendship Industries develops and maintains employment and training opportunities for persons with disabilities.  Clients are employed at Friendship Industries through one of four programs:

 

• Work Assessment Program: Staff works with adults who are intellectually or physically disabled or who have had a work-related injury or illness. Evaluation is done of each individual's knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors in a real work setting. After an assessment, the individual goes to the Work Adjustment program or Supported Employment or Extended Employment.

• Work Adjustment Program:  Helps an individual improve their work skills and behaviors and develop a plan for using their skills for productive work.

• Medicaid Waiver:  Prevocational Medicaid Waiver program is an intensive training program that helps clients develop personal and work knowledge, skills, and abilities that will enable them to learn to be successful employees.

• Extend Employment:  Most clients at Friendship are in Extended Employment. Clients in Extended Employment work in an integrated and supportive work environment. An integrated work environment is a work environment in which persons with and without disabilities work together to produce quality products and fulfill customer requests.

Some transportation services are provided in this program.