ACT’s Community and Family Services help support individuals who desire to participate, engage, and integrate into the community and fosters relationships by providing creative, flexible, and supportive services and resources.
This service is designed to offer individuals opportunities to participate in activities that help them acquire, improve and retain the self-help socialization and adaptive skills they need to reside successfully in the community as an adult.
The idea behind this service is to help individuals develop these skills at an earlier age outside of the school environment while participating in the community.
After School Youth Programming offers opportunities to:
For many families, finding the right after school programming for middle and high school aged adolescents with developmental disabilities can be a challenge. ACT’s after-school programming combines recreational and community-based activities in a safe and healthy environment that provides the solution for many families.
Our services are designed to provide community and facility based activities that assist individuals in acquiring, improving and retaining the self-help, socialization and adaptive skills needed to reside successfully in the community as an adult. Our goal-based services provide individuals more opportunities to develop these skills at an earlier age outside of the school environment while participating in the community.
Value is key to sustain inclusion for all members in our community — it’s a prerequisite to inclusion. Inclusion is only meaningful when it produces value or satisfies an underlying need and needs to be valuable to the community and to the people who seek it.
ACT ONE CLUB provides opportunities for youth with disabilities to engage with peers while participating in activities that promote friendship building, community engagement, access and essential support.
“Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller
“There is one way to look at things until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes.” — Pablo Picasso
“I'm having the best day ever!” — After School Youth Program Participants
“Believe you can and you're halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt
I’m having the best days ever!
- ASYP Youth
Without our services from ACT, we would be lost! ACT provides our family necessary services from a person who is knowledgeable about the supports our child needs.
- Participant Parent
It is such a relief to finally have an after-school program made for my child.
- Participant Parent
There was a time that I believed that my son would never be able to live outside of our home, but our services with ACT are teaching him step by step about everyday life.
- Participant Parent
My son is gaining so much independence he is learning to access the community on his own!
- Participant Parent
Our daughter is enjoying her time in our community so much! She is going so many places, some I didn't even know about!
- Participant Parent
Let your service coordinator know you’re interested in ACT’s Community and Family Services, or contact us to discuss the opportunities available to you
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