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Causes: Job Training, Sheltered Employment
Mission: The organization is committed to providing individualized services to adults with developmental disabilities, traumatic brain injuries or severe and persistent mental illness in order to fully participate in their communities, achieve optimum potential and growth, encourage independence, and assist in developing and finding employment opportunities.
Programs: Pine habilitation and supported employment, inc (phase) phase provides services to adults with developmental disabilties, traumatic brain injuries, and/or severe and persistent mental illness in east-central mn. The day services focus on therapeutic support and supported employment skills to assist participants in achieving their optimum potential and growth. Individual programs to encourage independence are designed to fit each person's needs and goals. Assisting participants in finding and retaining employment in the community is one of the major goals in this program. Phase operates several micro industries, such as retail outlets (heritage barnwood, goodworks thrift store, phase furnishings), phase-recycling, and phase lawn services. These were developed for the express purpose of providing employment training and experience for program participants. These program not only directly support program participants in developing and expanding needed skills to attain employment, but serve as an overall resource to the broader commnunity (e. G. , phase recycling collected processed over 1500 tons of recyclable materials during the year).