Helping Hand Center

Helping hand's school for children with intellectual/developmental disabilities and helping hand's extensive outpatient services both focus on preparing and ensuring key/core skills are enhanced. The school educates over 70 students with a dynamic team that collaborates with the student's school district and family. This team includes close to one-on-one support for each student, along with highly qualified special educators and paraprofessionals, speech therapists, behavioral therapist, and occupational therapists provide genuine education focused on returning to their home district or adult programming.

Helping hand's adult learning programing provides genuine care and education to over 400 adults. There are many focus areas for learning that are chosen by the person in the program so they can achieve their goals. Each person helping hand serves is unique and has their own interests. Helping hand provides an array of choices from job training and support to retirement and aging programs. Helping hand encourages each person to explore new skills in the arts (culinary, painting, dance, music, etc.), stem, computer science, athletics, and community advocacy to name a few. Each area incorporates independence and autonomy into the curriculum. Everyone helping hand serves has access to mental health and behavioral therapy along with case management.

Pediatric outpatient clinic - the outpatient clinic serves over 200 individuals through highly skilled therapists qualified to provide occupational, speech, feeding, and behavior therapy services. Helping hand is one of the few programs that accept clients with public aid funding in addition to insurance payments.

Employment services focuses on vocational skills to ready clients for the workplace. Adults in the adult learning program expressing interest in employment working with vocational specialists to identify skills needs and jobs to match the individual's interests. Helping hand focuses on competitive employment which will showcase the value each individual brings to the community.