Adult & Youth Services

Empowering adults and youth with disabilities to find greater quality of life and fulfilment of work

DDI Vantage empowers adults and youth with disabilities to find a greater quality of life and fulfillment in work, home life, and hobbies. The Adult and Youth Services programs are funded primarily through the Division of Services for People with Disabilities (DSPD) to provide services that help persons with disabilities strengthen their self-esteem through success and independence on the job, in the home, and in the community.

Our Adult and Youth Services include:

Supported Employment
Supported Job-Based Training
Supported Living
Family/Individual Training and Preparation
Respite
Personal Budget Assistance
Chore Service
Homemaker Service

DDI Vantage's trained staff is dedicated to helping each individual develop the skills necessary to succeed in every aspect of life and achieve a greater sense of self and quality of life.

Supported Employment For Employers

DDI Vantage Supported Employment enhances your company's human resources by providing employees to do the job and training them to do it the right way. Our staff of trained and experienced employment specialists work effectively with adults with disabilities, reducing the need for in-house training on your part. The specialists help assess the need for accommodations and can access other community resources that may be available at no cost to you or the employee.

Dependable

Provide dependable employees for your business or organization

Support

Provide on-the-job training and ongoing support to facilitate a successful experience

Relationship

Teach the worker approprite at-work behavior, personal hygiene, and social skills to help make the worker's relationship with co-worker a positive one

Training

Assure the job will be completed to your satisfaction during and after the training method

Assistance

Be available to answer your questions and to assist the worker whenever necessary

Supported Employment For Clients

Our services begin with a personal interview to get to know you and what you want. Then we work with you, your family, case workers, employers, and other people that know you to:

Find a job for you that you can do and would like to do.

Prepare you for a job interview.

Help you learn about personal hygiene, proper social skills, and how to be a good worker.

Make sure you get help if you need it to do your job.

Teach you the job skills, schedules, and routines you need to do the job.

Make sure your job is the best one for you and help you change it if it is the best thing to do.

Make sure that your job always gets done right, even while you're learning it.

Supported Living

DDI Vantage Supported Living provides one-on-one hourly support, supervision, training and assistance for people with disabilities. Services are provided to help individuals live as independently as possible by strengthening their capacity for meaningful choice and personal control in their daily lives. Activities are designed to support individuals in nurturing relationships, encouraging personal involvement in the community, and achieving personal goals.

Services are tailored to meet the individual's needs and may include assistance and training in:

Personal health and safety.
Personal care.
Household organization and management.
Transportation to medical appointments and community events.
Shopping.
Money management and budgeting.
Social, self-help, adaptive, and compensatory skills
FRIDAY social hour! Clients get to spend time at Dolly's Donuts and mingle with other clients.