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Founded in 1960, Avivo provides chemical and mental health services, career education, and employment services. We specialize in helping individuals and families who face personal or systemic barriers – poverty, homelessness, joblessness, chemical addiction or mental health concerns – achieve recovery and economic stability. Avivo serves nearly 18,000 Minnesotans each year, helping them achieve recovery, employment, and economic advancement.
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Community Involvement Programs (CIP) provides a variety of services for individuals with intellectual/developmental disability and/or serious persistent mental illness living in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area, and Pine County, MN. Through community inclusion opportunities, we find ways to collaborate with the men and women who are our program participants to help them pursue their personal dreams and goals.
Ally People Solutions merged with Community Involvement Programs on April 1, 2019.
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Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute was formed in June 2013 through the merger of Courage Center and Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Institute, part of Allina Health. Both organizations bring a strong history of service to people with disabilities as well as people with chronic medical conditions. Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute provides a wide range of inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation and community services. Our goal is to partner with you to help you achieve your highest level of independence, health and wellness. We do this by providing excellent services, innovative programs, ground-breaking research and barrier-shattering advocacy.
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Fraser is Minnesota’s largest and most experienced provider of autism and early childhood mental health services. Fraser serves children and adults through healthcare, housing, education and employment. Our programs are nationally recognized for their high quality, innovation and individualized family-centered approach. Fraser has been serving children and families for over 75 years and is recognized as an innovator in serving those with special needs. Fraser involves the entire family – parents and caregivers are the experts when it comes to their children.
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Fraser Career Planning and Employment offers a full spectrum of services designed for teens and adults that struggle with executive functioning, including those with autism spectrum disorder. Our skilled professionals assess each individual’s unique talents and challenges to create a tailored plan that results in lifelong success. Fraser gives teens and adults the skills and support needed for meaningful careers and education.
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Serving Minnesota and western Wisconsin for nearly 100 years as a leader in workforce development, Goodwill-Easter Seals Minnesota provides education, job training and placement services to eliminate barriers to work and independence. Our mission is to eliminate barriers to work and independence, and our visition is a world where everyone experiences the power of work.
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Kaposia, Inc. seeks to enhance the community and each individual through finding meaningful employment at competitive wages for people with disabilities, providing employers with competent, motivated & committed employees, and offering retired workers who may be disabled a way to stay vital and active in the community. Kaposia invests in the prosperity of people who have a disability, and in the profitability of our partners.
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Since 1965, Lifeworks Services Inc. has been a pioneer for inclusion. Lifeworks was founded by families who recognized the importance of advocacy and removing barriers for people with disabilities in the community. Today, Lifeworks continues to be an industry leader that has a strong commitment to community-based programs, careers with competitive wages in integrated settings, and developing innovative opportunities that enrich the everyday lives of the people we serve. Through Fiscal Support, Employment, and Day Services – as well as through partnerships with over 400 businesses – Lifeworks serves more than 2,700 Minnesotans with disabilities and their families.
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People with disabilities deserve to find meaningful work that meets their personal interests and goals. LSS Employment First services works closely with individuals to match their preferred work environment with the right employer.
Our work starts with an exploration of interests, strengths and overall desires for employment. We can work with individuals at their home or in a place they feel comfortable for a relaxed conversation about their employment goals.
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Minnesota Diversified Industries provides plastic packaging solutions to companies looking to maintain the quality and cleanliness of their products, increase production, reduce waste and simplify their processes. Meaningful employment is important to us, including providing jobs for people with disabilities in Minnesota who want work that matches their skills and interests. Like all of us, people with disabilities want to do a good job, try new challenges, and be self-sufficient. Nearly half of MDI employees are people with disabilities.
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Merrick, Inc., has proudly provided life enrichment activities and employment support for adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities (I’DD) in the Northeastern Twin Cities since 1964. We are wayfinders, connecting individuals, businesses, and our local community. We offer a mix of day training and habilitation services, supported employment services, and adult day services to more than 375 clients. Merrick is the largest I/DD provider in Ramsey County with a 50-year history of leadership in person-centered planning, self-advocacy, meaningful work options, operational excellence, and continuous innovation.
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A statewide association representing providers of important services to people with disabilities, the Minnesota Organization for Habilitation and Rehabilitation, known as MOHR, is comprised of more than 110 providers of quality services. Its member organizations, of varying sizes and some with multiple locations, serve more than 26,000 Minnesotans with disabilities with a broad array of programs that allow them to pursue and accomplish their work and life enrichment goals. The programs include adult day services, day training and habilitation, extended employment and supported employment.
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Since 1953, MRCI has focused on the rehabilitation of adults by providing innovative employment programs that assist individuals in their achievement of personal goals. By focusing on the people we serve through programs and individualized planning, MRCI has continued to operate as a true leader in the field of adult rehabilitation. MRCI is one of Minnesota’s largest and most diverse providers of employment and day services. We are a private, nonprofit organization, that serves individuals in Southern Minnesota and the Twin Cities Metro Area.
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MSS is a non-profit organization that provides individualized programs and supports to adults with intellectual and physical disabilities to help them reach their personal goals and achieve their full potential as vital and contributing members of the community. MSS has a 65-year history of service to the Twin Cities community. Since its inception in 1949 as United Cerebral Palsy of Saint Paul, we have been committed tosupporting adults with disabilities and their families in meeting the challenges of vocational education, employment and community access.
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Founded in 1953 by a group of visionary parents who knew their teenage children with disabilities could be contributing members of the community if given a chance, Opportunity Partners has always focused on the abilities of people. Today, Opportunity Partners is redefining “disability” through advanced learning, deep community support and meaningful work, proving that everyone – when given an opportunity – adds value to our world. Join the cause to take the ‘dis’ out of disability. Whether you are a person with a disability, a family or team member, or an interested community member, we look forward to connecting with you.
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Partnership Resources, Inc. (PRI) is a nonprofit organization that has served adults with intellectual disabilities since 1958. PRI’s mission is “to create partnerships between people with disabilities and the community.” We believe each person with disabilities has opportunities to contribute his or her unique gifts to the community. We breakdown stereotypes, raise awareness and support others in adding beauty to the world. Partnership Resources’ state of the art programs provide flexible options including vocational exploration, functional skill development, community involvement, and opportunities for artistic expression. Our philosophy on providing services focuses on person-centered planning and supports.
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Partnership Resources, Inc.’s Day Service Programs offer engaging and supportive environments to participate in functional skill development, learning through experiences, and community inclusion. Programs offer flexibility, balance and variety, choice, and person-centered supports and outcomes. Program options include opportunities to access the community, participate in functional activities, develop new skills and social connections, explore employment, and learn about health and wellness.
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Partnership Resources, Inc.’s Older Adults Program offers a supportive environment as individuals transition into the next phase of life, pursue new interests and outcomes, continue to make choices, and sustain connections with the community. Program opportunities are individualized, and focus on the changing needs of people in their retirement years. Program options include opportunities to access the community, volunteer, engage in health and wellness activities, participate in creative classes, pursue lifelong hobbies, socialize, and learn new skills.
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ProAct, Inc. is an organization dedicated to serving people with disabilities and other challenges with a wide range of services that enhance employment skills and self-sufficiency capabilities. Dedicated to serving people with disabilities and other barriers to employment and community inclusion, ProAct provides a wide range of client services that enhance employment skills and self-sufficiency capabilities. At the same time, ProAct offers employers from the Twin Cities area, western Wisconsin and southern Minnesota with quality workplace employees and assembly, packaging and light manufacturing products and services.
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Reach for Resources, Inc. is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support individuals with disabilities and mental illness to reach their full potential. We do this by providing individualized services that maximize independence, promote community involvement, and improve physical and mental well-being. Reach serves over 1,000 individuals each year through our Adaptive Recreation & Inclusion, Independent Living and Employment Support, Mental Health Support, and Waiver Case Management services.
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Incorporated in 1971, Rise is a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization which supports people who have disabilities and other barriers. We are an industry leader, and offer the people we serve the greatest possible level of community integration and a wide range of programming choices so that they may meet their goals. Rise unlocks potential and opens doors to success for people with disabilities or other challenges through creative solutions and customized support. We envision a progressive, supportive, and collaborative environment that fosters meaningful growth and provides opportunities to live a life filled with purpose.
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TSE was one of the first organizations in Minnesota to serve people with developmental disabilities, beginning in 1961. Responding to the needs expressed by a group of parents, North Suburban Day Activity Center (the original name) began serving a small group of adults in the basement of a church. Services were designed to provide individuals with leisure, recreation and socialization opportunities. From the first years to the present, TSE continues to serve individuals with a wide range of disabilities and a variety of interests and needs. TSE has grown to serve nearly 300 individuals in four service sites and at over 70 businesses throughout the Metro area.
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From a grassroots organization, WACOSA has grown dramatically over the years, serving over 650 adults with disabilities having one or more cognitive and/or physical challenges. WACOSA’ s services are provided at our five program locations, located in Waite Park, St. Cloud and Sauk Centre, MN. Our programs provide a wide variety of personal life enrichment activities, employment and career options, and volunteering and community connection opportunities. The clients we serve help us develop an ever changing, wide ranging, menu of services that meet their individual goals, needs and dreams.
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The Work Incentives Planning and Assistance (WIPA) program is a cooperative agreement between the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Work Incentives Connection of Goodwill Easter Seals to help individuals with disabilities understand how their Social Security and other public benefits are affected by working.
