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Early Intervention
Early Intervention (also called Birth-Through-Two) is a service provided to identify and serve, at the earliest possible age, children who are experiencing significant delays in their development. Developmental screenings are available to measure the child’s overall development in relation to his/her age. If a delay exists, families are assisted in contacting Child and Family Connections to determine eligibility for early intervention services.
If eligible, the family and the developmental therapist collaborate with the local office of Child and Family Connections to develop an Individualized Family Service Plan (I.F.S.P.). CCAR’s Early Intervention program provides developmental therapy services in the family home as specified in the plan. Services are available to eligible children until their third birthday.
Other services include developmental play groups, a lending library, usage of available toys and adaptive equipment, program newsletter and parent support.
24 Hour Residential
24 Hour Community Integrated Living Arrangement (CILA)
The 24 Hour Community Integrated Living Arrangement provides adults with intellectual disabilities with around-the-clock support. Groups of four to six individuals live in structured, agency-owned home environments that are supervised 24 hours per day. The agency owns ten homes that are located in neighborhoods throughout the Charleston. Nursing staff are “on call” around the clock in case medical needs arise. With the help of well-trained staff, residents work on personal goals for independent living and community integration. The residents are active in the community often going shopping, taking trips to surrounding communities, participating in faith-based activities of their choice, and attending community festivals. During the day on Monday through Friday, a majority of the Residential program consumers attend one of our four day programs.
Developmental Training
The Developmental Training program assists adults who live and work in their communities. Services are provided at four locations with one providing specialized services for older adults.
Lincoln Avenue Center and Manufacturing Plant (ages 18 and up) provide work skill training in a structured atmosphere. Workplace safety, work quality, and community-integrated activities are emphasized. Work training at the Lincoln Avenue Center primarily takes place in their recycling program. Training at the Manufacturing Plant occurs (as the name implies) at their manufacturing plant through contractual work with area businesses. While attending the programs, consumers also work on social and functional skills to promote success in other aspects of community living.
Locust Street Center (ages 18 and up) uses a Total Communication approach and provides sensory activities. The program uses the “Creating a Meaningful Day” curriculum. Some of the areas that are emphasized in this curriculum are socialization, community experience, social and emotional experience, visual arts, music, gardening, nature, sports, animals, cooking, and shopping. The program is also geared towards building upon and maintaining individual adult daily living skills.
Vocational Services
Vocational Services provide social and functional skills training, vocational skills training, and employment for adults with disabilities. Manufacturing and janitorial services are available on a contractual basis to interested businesses. An emphasis is placed on community integration.
This program provides services for adults with disabilities (ages 18 and older) who want to determine their work abilities, improve their work skills, or locate community employment. Acceptance into the program is based on our ability to meet an individual’s specific needs, the availability of funding, and the individual’s on-going desire to participate in the program. Training predominantly takes place within our manufacturing plant and at locations owned by the agency. Program participants earn wages for the work that they perform.
Supported Employment is designed to provide community employment for individuals with disabilities who require job coach supervision and other assistance in the workplace to maintain employment. Typically, consumers work in small groups or individually with job coach supervision. This is dependent on the individual’s level of need. Transportation is available from the job coach or the transportation program.
Client & Family Support
The Client & Family Support program provides services to individuals funded to participate in the Family or Intermittent Community Integrated Living Arrangement (CILA) programs or Home Based Support program. In addition, services are provided through a Respite program grant. All services are geared towards assisting the individual to attain or maintain their living situation in the community.
The Client and Family Support (C.F.S.) program provides services to individuals enrolled in the Home Based Support program, Family or Intermittent Community Integrated Living Arrangement (C.I.L.A.) program, or Respite program. All services are geared towards assisting the program participant in attaining and/or maintaining their community home.
Unlike the 24 Hour Community Living Arrangement program, the C.F.S. program assists individuals who live in homes that are not owned by the agency. Consumers in this program live with their families or reside in their own home. Staff are not present around-the-clock, but are on-call to assist with emergencies on weekends and in the evenings.
Intermittent or Family Community Integrated Living Arrangement Program provides residential supports on a less than 24 hour basis. The program offers a wide range of options to help individuals live as independently as possible in the community. Supports can include case management, money management, hygiene training, advocacy, problem solving, and assistance with the development of leisure skills. Services are provided at times and in environments that are most convenient for individuals and their families.
Home Based Support Program provides service facilitation to adults and children. It offers families the options of hiring their own personal support workers with assistance from their service facilitator and chosen fiscal agent, using personal support workers employed by CCAR Industries, or any combination thereof. The type and frequency of services delivered are determined by the individual and family and are written into the individualized service plan.
Respite Program provides families with relief from care giving responsibilities within the family home. Families select a trained worker and schedule in-home services at times and dates that are convenient for the family.
24 Hour Residential
The 24 Hour Residential program provides services to individuals who live in agency-owned homes in the local community. Community Integrated Living Arrangements (CILAs) are designed to help adults with intellectual disabilities live as independently in the community as possible. CILA services are provided, based on the needs of the individual. In addition, the agency owns a Children’s Group Home for children with intellectual disabilities.
24 Hour Community Integrated Living Arrangement (CILA)
The 24 Hour Community Integrated Living Arrangement provides adults with intellectual disabilities with around-the-clock support. Groups of four to six individuals live in structured, agency-owned home environments that are supervised 24 hours per day. The agency owns ten homes that are located in neighborhoods throughout the Charleston. Nursing staff are “on call” around the clock in case medical needs arise. With the help of well-trained staff, residents work on personal goals for independent living and community integration. The residents are active in the community often going shopping, taking trips to surrounding communities, participating in faith-based activities of their choice, and attending community festivals. During the day on Monday through Friday, a majority of the Residential program consumers attend one of our four day programs.
In all of the Residential homes, strong family relationships are encouraged. Parents and guardians are welcome to visit our homes. Activities can be scheduled around family outings or visits. A few program consumers see their families weekly while others choose to limit their visits to holidays and special occasions. In addition to visits, program consumers and families speak on the phone, write or email, and communicate in other ways throughout the year.
Manufacturing
CCAR Industries has met the unique outsourcing needs of the local manufacturing community since 1970. Our manufacturing plant provides work opportunities to approximately 70 intellectually disabled individuals. By contracting with us, manufacturing customers save production time and money, as well as free their workers’ schedules for the more skilled production operations. By using our warehouse facility for drop-shipping raw material, customers save transportation and warehousing space and costs. CCAR Industries offers a wide range of production capabilities. Here are a few examples of what we do:
Packaging: pack-outs, shrink-wrapping, displays, hand-packaging, labeling, and parts-bagging
Metal Work: mig welding, tig welding, brazing, pipe cutting and threading, light steel, fabricating, steel band cutting and punching, and chain/bracket assemblies
Industrial Contracts: wax pouring, wire-cutting and stripping, ceramic fiber cutting, manufactured component sub-assemblies, corrugated assemblies, gasket assembly, warehouse/shipping
To discuss how CCAR Industries can assist your company, please email or call us at 217-345-7058.
Recycling
The Lincoln Avenue Recycling Program has provided work training opportunities to program participants since 1998. Initially, Eastern Illinois University was the program’s primary source of recycling materials. However, over the years, the program has had an increasing number of area businesses and private residents contribute materials.
Examples of items that we recycle include newspaper, office paper, magazines, books, calendars, brochures and more. We accept cardboard, but please note that cardboard is only accepted with a monetary donation due to the current cost of processing cardboard and the need to cover the cost of program participant wages. At this time, the program accepts aluminum cans (which are processed at a different location.) We have a large paper shredder on-site that is used to shred confidential documents from businesses or private individuals. Please note that we do not accept glass, plastic, electronics or non-aluminum metal items.
Individuals who are enrolled in the Lincoln Avenue program earn wages while they develop work skills. Staff work closely with individuals and provide supervision and training throughout the day. Program participants perform tasks according to their particular abilities and workplace modifications are made when needed. Some common tasks performed are sorting paper (there are three categories), sorting cardboard from paper, tearing pages from bound items, picking-up materials from area businesses and cleaning-up the work area.
Community members and businesses are welcome to bring items to our Recycling Center at 1600 Lincoln Avenue. We accept materials on Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. We are closed on most major holidays. If you have questions, please email or call us at 217-348-0127 ext. 703.
Funding Your Services
“Medicaid waiver” is a type of funding from the Illinois Department of Human Services – Division of Developmental Disabilities. This type of funding is required to enroll in the following CCAR Industries’ services: 24 Hour Community Integrated Living Arrangement, Family Community Integrated Living Arrangement, Intermittent Community Integrated Living Arrangement, Adult Home Based Support services, Children’s Home Based Support services, Supported Employment, and Developmental Training. This funding is “tied to the person”, not the agency. If you move to a different community in Illinois, you take your funding with you to use with a different provider. It is important to note that CCAR Industries does not assign or determine eligibility for this funding. To obtain Medicaid waiver funding from the Illinois Division of Developmental Disabilities, you must work with your local Pre-Admission Screening (P.A.S.) agency. The P.A.S. representative will meet with you, determine your eligibility, and complete the appropriate paperwork. It is possible that you may be placed on the state-wide waiting list for funding. This waiting list is called the Prioritization for Urgency of Need for Services (P.U.N.S.). For more information about Medicaid waiver funding and to locate a P.A.S. agency near you, please visit the Illinois Department of Human Services website.
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