Bawac Inc

The supported employment program provided services to 94 people this year. We completed 24 person centered employment plans for persons served. These plans identify a person's strengths and interests in order to conduct a job search that best fits with the person's skills and abilities. We had 25 new job placements during the year. 72% of all person's placed continued to maintain their employment throughout the year. The program also provides services through the norse project search program. This year we had 4 interns successfully complete the program and receive a certificate of completion. We continue to provide long-term follow-up support after a person is successfully placed for as long as an individual needs and wants this service. 83% of participants on our long-term follow-up program maintained their employment during the year.

Bawac transportation transported 215-225 individuals with disability through 6 counties in the northern kentucky area in fy24. We are under contract with ftsb, northern kentucky area district and st. Elizabeth outpatient services, to provide nemt throughout the greater cincinnati and northern kentucky area. Our medical transports serve close to 200 patients to and from the hospital, dialysis, pharmacy's, and doctors appt as far north as west chester, ohio and as far south as louisville, ky, along with going into south central indiana. We have also started doing socialization trips for people to visit with family and friends who don't have the ability to do so on their own. Bawac transportation continues to provide transport to individuals that have community jobs, through our supported employment services, in the northern kentucky area. Bawac transportation continues to strive to be on time, reliable, respectable and dependable in our community and to our partners, resulting in good passenger surveys. In fy24 bawac transportation was generously granted several grants/vehicles from the state of ky, along with the partnership with the oki/sorta in cincinnati, oh! We received some well needed new vans and buses to help us grow and replenish old equipment. Bawac transportation currently has 57 vehicles in our fleet. We range anywhere from ford connects all the way to ford e450 buses. We have greatly increased our fleet of wheel chair equipped vans and buses, with easy access entrance ways to help with our aging population.

Facility based work adjustment training - our facility based work adjustment training prepares individuals with disabilities or challenges to employment for community based employment through counseling, work related skills training and work training. Remunerative work is provided in a realistic job setting so that program staff may support individuals to prepare them for community based employment. Production services - our production services establish working relationships and sub-contract arrangements with area businesses to provide a variety of work opportunities for our consumers. These opportunities enable bawac to provide a variety of work experiences and training in areas such as assembly, inspection, collating, sorting, packaging, labeling, bagging, sealing, and machining. Bawac offers area businesses a quality, timely and cost effective solution, specifically tailored to their unique needs. In fy24 bawac has demonstrated to over 87 area companies the added value and reliability we offer to their business.