Beacon Group

Programs: Tucson rehabilitation: even though beacon group continued to receive less than adequate fees for both supported employment and job development and placement services funded through the rehabilitation services administration, beacon group was able to maintain its state-wide recognized quality of services while continuing to serve a significant number of individuals throughout the fiscal year. A 5% increase in fees from the division of developmental disabilities had a major positive impact by allowing beacon group to hire additional staff members which further ensured the continued provision of those quality services even with a significant increase in the total number of persons served. A total of 900 persons with a wide variety of disabilities were served during 2012-2013, a 6% increase. Over 750 of these individuals received training, employment, or other services within our facilities or at one of over 35 community worksites at local employers with whom beacon group has developed and fostered mutually beneficial business partnerships. The remainder of the individuals served received job development and placement services to assist them in finding and maintaining competitive, integrated jobs within our local community. Through our employment programs, beacon group clients earned $1. 8 million in wages and benefits, a 9% increase. In addition, beacon group placed 154 persons with disabilities into various levels of community employment during the fiscal year.

production and services: beacon group performs sub-contract work for many local businesses each year. This work is a training and development vehicle for people with disabilities, providing a source of sustaining income and many different employment choices. During the year, beacon assembled over 55,000,000 aerospace rivets for alcoa, and over a million mechanical assemblies for companies such as ventana medical systems, precision shooting equipment, air systems components and fisher industries. Clients and staff processed 200,000 bulk mailing pieces and assembled 80,000 cable devices. Over 3,700,000 lbs of paper were shredded and recycled in our document destruction business (an average of 8 tons of paper per day) for over 2,000 shredding business customers and many individual customers. Within our beacon group production facility, people have a choice of over 25 different jobs to work at. Out in the community we have over 30 worksites that people can choose from performing a variety of services including vehicle washing, assembly, warehouse and clerical work. Overall production and services sales was up 9% from the prior year.

custodial and landscaping: beacon group provides custodial services for a variety of customers including abilityone projects. We provide these services for approximately 1,500,000 square feet of combined commercial space. Our custodial services provide training and job opportunities for people with disabilities with choices of work settings and crew responsibilities. We have received top ratings for work at our largest project, the federal courthouse in tucson. Revenues for this program were up 7% this fiscal year. New projects include work at the air national guard facility in tucson. Beacon group successfully started a new government abilityone contract to provide consolidated facilities support services for the defense information systems agency (disa), joint interoperability test command (jitc) at fort huachuca, az, ft. Meade md, and indian head md. 20 different individual administrative, facilities maintenance and logistics tasks are performed. Beacon group serves as the prime contractor and three other community rehabilitation agencies are our subcontractors on the project. The total workforce is over 55 people and the contract has allowed us to hire many people with disabilities, including veterans.