Adult Program
As a Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) accredited program, The Frazer Center Adult Day Services provides opportunities for individuals with disabilities, ages 18 and over, and their families. Education, work training, and recreation opportunities are offered in either the Vocational Skills track or the Life Skills track, based on individual interests, needs and abilities. An Individual Service Plan is created for each participant to track improvement and maximize potential.
Vocational Skills
The goal of The Frazer Center's Work Experience Program is to help participants attain optimal vocational potential by improving work skills, behaviors and understanding of the value and purpose of work.
The program consists of the following services:
- Work Experience
- Job training
- Paid work
- Volunteer work
- Simulated work
- Work-Related Classes
- Employee related issues
- Job search skills
- Money management
- Personal information
- Career assessment
- Work Opportunities
- Individual employment/supported employment
- Employment enclaves
- Job sampling/situational assessments
- Job coaching/job training
Life Skills
The Frazer Center's Life Skills Program teaches appropriate behavior and essential daily living skills by providing choices and opportunities, along with real-life obstacles, to help participants become as independent as possible. The Life Skills Program offers the following classes:
- Relaxation & Sensory Awareness
- Enhancing and stimulating the senses
- Community Awareness
- Increasing the ability to utilize community resources
- Count Down
- Learning the value of financial resources
- Daily Living Skills
- Improving the skills needed to increase independency
- Cultural Arts
- Increasing exposure and the opportunity to experience the arts
Horticultural Skills
- 46 adults participate weekly
- Teaches basic plant skills
- Craft projects
- Related community activities
- Group participation
Recreation
- Community field trips
- Center activities
Computer Skills
Simple C is a computer company that is developing software to enhance computer skills and Internet access for the elderly and disabled adults. Classes are held weekly and 20 adults have participated in the program.
Creativity
The adult program encourages adults to develop creative interests and talents. We have adult participants who have sold their artwork and have published their writings including a poetry book.
The Road to Independence
For many of us, taking out the trash is a routine chore. For 57-year-old Donald, taking out the trash symbolizes independence. It's his job as a member of The Frazer Center's cleaning crew and it has taken years of slow, steady progress for him to achieve this. Donald's adult siblings first brought him to the Center in 1999. They were overwhelmed and confused because this shy, handicapped, middle-aged man could do almost nothing for himself. Now, Donald greets visitors with a confident handshake and a genuine smile. Today, he is part of a community and, for the first time in his life, he proudly brings home a paycheck that contributes to the cost of his care through supported employment offered as a part of The Frazer Center's Work Experience Program.
Artwork by Eugene Park, participant in the Adult Day Services Program
