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Provides several services to Developmental Disabilities Administration (DDA) clients, including Staff and Family Consultation and Respite care for DDA clients. Other services include: Specialized Habilitation Helps individuals create healthy relationships, adapt to challenges, and improve overall quality-of-life. Services offer resources for community integration including: - Self-empowerment. - Safety awareness and self-advocacy. - Interpersonal skills and effective communication. - Coping strategies regarding typical life challenges. - Learning how to manage daily tasks to gain adaptive skills. Community Engagement Services are designed to develop creative, flexible and supportive community resources and relationships to connect individuals to resources in their community, and supports them to participate, engage, and integrate into the community. A community guide or community engagement provider will: - Meet with you to discuss goals stated in the Person-Centered service plan and help you develop specific goals related to engaging with the community. - Develop strategies with you to connect with community resources, based on your interests and needs. - Help you develop healthy relationships with local community members. - Support you with participating community activities within you budget. Peer mentoring Offers a form of mentorship that takes place between a person who is living through the experiences of having a developmental disability or a family member of a person who has a developmental disability (peer mentor) and a person who is new to the experience (peer mentee). These services help individuals or family members through: - Mentoring. - Sharing personal experiences to provide support. - Sharing information about community resources. - Exploring other supports. Specialized Goods and Services Provides participants and their families with specialized supports to achieve stabilization in their home and community and may include: - Vehicle modifications or adaptations required to fit the needs of the participant to engage with their community. - Therapeutic equipment and supplies necessary to implement a behavioral support plan or other therapeutic plan including sensory integration or communication therapy plan. ​ - Nonrestrictive clothing adaptive to the participant's individual needs and related to his/her disability. - Purchasing or leasing, and customizing or adapting assistive technology to meet the functional needs of a child with a disability. ​ ​

Provides support for people who have a developmental disability in achieving greater independence and fulfillment on their pathway to employment. - Coordination of DDA employment and community inclusion services ages 21+ - Transition Services for young adults with developmental disabilities who have turned 21 years old and have graduated from High School. Adult Services to assist adults with developmental disabilities to find and maintain community integrated employment and live full participating and contributing lives within their community. - Community Education and Information Services are designed to increase public awareness and build community acceptance for including people with developmental disabilities.