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| About Adult Day
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The Adult Day Program serves individuals with developmental disabilities
who can benefit from facility-based and CSLA programs. Each of CHI
Centers Day Programs are committed to the full integration of participants
into all aspects of the community and provide experiences to facilitate
that integration.
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| Adult Day Program At the Hillandale
Center (Silver Spring) |
A variety of environments,
established within the Hillandale Center, offer curriculum based training
intended to facilitate personal growth and development. Individualized
programs are designed to meet the needs of each participant and assessments
are made at regular intervals to assure that these needs continue
to be met.
Vocational
Programs at Hillandale
Food Service:This environment is a cafeteria
work setting. Curriculum includes food preparation skills, operation
of the serving line, and basic kitchen maintenance.
Copy Center Services:The CHI Centers Copy Center offers copying,
mailing and related services to the business community and individuals.
Quality professional services and competitive pricing have attracted
the short and long-term customers and job contracts.
Lettershops:These shops provide opportunities for participants
to learn the same skills and techniques used in mailing operations
in competitive employment.
Montgomery Workshop: This area replicates an industrial environment.
Program participants focus on contracts involving packaging, mechanical
assembly and shrink-wrapping.
Basic Workskills (BWS) Shops:These shops prepare individuals
to work either in other portions of the Adult Program or directly
in the community.
In all these areas, persons with developmental disabilities
are prepared for supported or competitive work placements, or, when
appropriate, maintained at the highest possible level in this sheltered
employment environment.
Habilitation Programs at Hillandale
Habilitation Programs facilitate the development
of informed personal choice, increased independence, self-esteem and
social competencies.
Senior Center: The environment of this program
replicates a community senior center and focuses on nutrition, health,
leisure and community integration.
Basic Life Skills: Within this shop program, participants
focus on the development of communication, self-help and leisure
skills. Individuals utilize augmentative communication devices to
enhance their independence within the Hillandale Center and throughout
the community.
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| Adult Program
at Lone Oak
(Rockville) |
| The goal of this program is to
enhance active community involvement. Program participants from the
Rockville area operate from this site two or three days a week and
take part in paid and non-paid work, social, and recreational opportunities
within their own neighborhood. Each person's interests are used to
identify those opportunities. |
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| Adult Program at The
Jones Center (Gaithersburg) |
The Adult Program at The Jones Center offers opportunities
for persons from Upper Montgomery County to participate in supported,
competitive work placements, volunteer opportunities, or vocational
and habilitation services depending upon interests and needs.
These program participants are encouraged to take part in functional,
age - appropriate activities to facilitate the development of social
skills and to explore alternative ways to spend their days in a meaningful
and productive manner. |
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| Adult Program at Tenbrook
(Silver Spring/Sligo Park) |
| The Adult Program at Tenbrook serves
individuals with special medical needs who require intensive therapeutic
services. The program implements weekly community excursions for community
integration. Daily activities are incorporated to ensure development
of fine and gross motor skills through arts & crafts and therapeutic
equipment. Augmentative communication devices are utilized to enhance
their personal choices and increase their independence of their environment.
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| Prince George's Day Program
(Laurel) |
| Program participants at the Prince George's Day
Program are dually diagnosed and have behaviors that offer challenges
to the professionals working with them. Special programs feature speech
and recreational therapy, and intensive behavioral management programs. |
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Contact Information:
Tel (301) 439-4330 Fax (301) 408-3054 E-mail Adult
Program |
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Judy
Hyde,
Adult Program Director |
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