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- EIN 37-0913066
- (618) 687-2378
- 20 N 13th St Murphysboro IL 62966-2057 USA
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Job Training, Vocational Rehabilitation
Mission: S. T. A. R. T. Operates and maintains a comprehensive rehabilitation agency. Programs of the organization place priority upon habilitation and rehabilitation of persons with disabilities (with special emphasis on persons who are intellectually disabled) who reside in jackson county, illinois. Services of the workshop include counseling, evaluation, work adjustment training, community residential, job placement, and follow-up, developmental skills training, sheltered work, recreation, casefinding and screening that might contribute to the maximum independent functioning of those served by the programs, with the ultimate goal of fostering an adequate community adaptation for all participants.
Programs: Program 31 developmental training seeks to provide skills training so that individuals with a developmental disability can develop greater independence in life skills (communication, self-help, mobility, learning, language and behavior) and to promote independence in their daily living and create opportunities for greater economic self sefficiency. Services include assessments, funcitonal daily living skills training, advocacy, socialization, recreational opportunities, vocational, transportation, case management, consultation, and referral services. It is expected that the dt program will focus on the development of and enhancement of daily adaptive living skills and economic self sufficiency. Dt will also enhance an individual's ability to engage in productive work activities through a focus on professioanl development, which includes such habilitative goals as cooperation, increase in attending skills, productive capacity, and task completion.
program 60 residential seeks to promote independence in activities of daily living, to provide supports that allow individuals to reside in the least restrictive living environment, and to promote economic self sufficiency. Program 60 provides an array of services not limited to: assessment and referral, services of educational, vocational, developmental training, case management, advocacy, crisis intervention, medication training and monitoring, nusing services, skills training, behavioral training, residentially or in home supports, recreation, socialization, money management, representative payee, service facilitation, and/or transportation services. The residential program provided services to 25 individuals. It is expected that residential programs will improve or maintain individuals in community-based settings as alternatives to a more restrictive living environment with goals tailored to meet their individual needs.
title xx youth transition services program seeks to help youth with disabilities achieve post secondary educational goals by providing comprehensive transitional services. Youth career counselors will collaborate with school administrators, guidance counselors, special services staff, and parents to support and equip students in their pursuit of post-secondary education or vocational training.