Sugar Plum Inc

Programs: Bakery program: the bakery program provides employment opportunities and employment training services to individuals with developmental disabilities. Individuals are employed as food service and production workers in the bakery and maintain quality standards with supports from job coaches, job specialists and staff employed by the bakery.

(other programs) - sugar plum bakery provides employment opportunities to individuals receiving medicaid waiver services and individuals receiving funding support from dars (department of aging and rehabilitative services). Individuals qualifying for waiver services (building independence waiver, family and individual support waiver, and community living waiver) participate in group and individual supported employment services and are employees of the bakery. Job duties include but are not limited to: production tasks, washing dishes, folding boxes, office tasks and cleaning. Individuals work with a job coach to ensure quality standards are maintained. The job coach assists individuals in successfully completing tasks as needed. Individuals are encouraged to work as independently as possible. Individuals receiving dars funding work with a job specialist employed by sugar plum bakery to achieve their employment goals. Sugar plum bakery through its partnership with dars provides employment training services in the bakery and in the community. A sugar plum bakery job specialist works one on one with individuals referred by dars. The job specialist assists individuals with disabilities by providing situational assessments; job development, placement and training and long term follow along services. The individuals are employees of their place of employment and must adhere to the standards of the business.