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ADULT DAY TRAINING PROGRAM – FACT SHEET
* Helping program participants achieve the greatest possible level of independent functioning is the focus of the Key Center's Adult Day Training Program. The program runs every weekday from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
* The Adult day training program is designed to help client’s function more normally in everyday life, and to provide a meaningful daytime activity for program participants.
* A specific program of care for each program participant is established. With input from the individual, family members, legal guardians, Key Center staff and an independent support coordinator from the Agency for Persons with Disabilities, a support plan is developed and includes measurable personal outcome measures.
* Using hands-on learning techniques, Key Center staff help program participants enhance life skills inside and outside of structured classrooms and sheltered workshops. The comprehensive scope of the Key Center's Adult Day Training Program offers program participants, family members, and guardians many choices for adult basic education and community involvement.
* We have nearly 300 program participants arrive each day from either one of the Key Center’s housing residences or from their own home where they live with their guardians or caregivers.
* We provide year round 2 way transportation through a small fleet of buses, and vans.
Adult Day Training Program – Adult Basic Education Classroom Instruction
* Program participants receive classroom instruction, as well as individual staff attention. Training is customized and person centered.
* Self Care Training – Program participants learn personal hygiene and grooming. Hands-on training involves bathing, dressing, toileting, shaving, hair care, and meal time manners.
* Daily Living Skills Training - Includes meal planning, cooking, nutrition, budgeting, shopping, cleaning, exercise, laundry, sewing, public, traffic signals and safety
* Basic Knowledge Skills – Include reading, writing, math, making change, telling time, and computer usage. Individually tailored for each customer, a variety of unique teaching methods are used to teach these basic knowledge skills
* In the Adult Day Training program, program participants learn the skills necessary to develop successful personal relationships and productive employment opportunities.
Adult Day Training Program - Prevocational Classroom Training
* The prevocational training consists of five self-contained classrooms averaging 15 program participants.
* Prevocational classroom staff ratio is one staff member per five program participants.
* One prevocational classroom is designated as a behavioral room and requires one staff member to 3 program participants.
* Training includes social interaction and behavior, basic self care habits, communication, recreation, and fundamental vocational skills.
* Self Care Training – Program participants learn personal hygiene and grooming. Hands-on training involves bathing, dressing, toileting, shaving, hair care, and meal time manners.
* Vocational Training - Work involves repetitive tasks. Jobs include simple product assembly and packaging.
Adult Day Training Program – Vocational Training Opportunities
* Vocational training services include a comprehensive variety of programs to help consumers function as independently as possible. Through a variety of vocational training opportunities, consumers make choices and learn valuable skills and develop positive work habits while earning an income determined commensurate with their abilities and productivity.
* The program provides a range of vocational training opportunities including simple product assembly, thrift store, nursery, lawn maintenance, and community base employment.
* Vocational Interest Assessment - Using pictures, consumers indicate their vocational preferences to Key Center staff. Areas include automotive, building trades, clerical, animal care, food service, patient care, horticulture, housekeeping, personal service, laundry service and materials handling.
* Includes traditional work values, ethics and advanced vocational skills training; periodic field trips also enhance community-based learning.
* Volunteering opportunities and job shadowing are ways we facilitate job exploration in the community.
Sheltered Workshop
* Key Center staff helps consumers function in a vocational setting as independently as possible.
* Program participants receive wages based on their ability, productivity and the prevailing wage for similar jobs.
* Work involves repetitive tasks. Jobs include simple product assembly, packaging items in bags or boxes, and bulk mailing.
* The workshop provides clients with the capability to earn wages based on ability and productivity while furthering their vocational skills.
* The Key Center has been blessed with a contract from Closet Maid.
* We have a workshop at the Inverness and Lecanto campus where Key Center staff work with clients to guarantee quality control.
* These jobs are very important to our program participants. They look forward to receiving their paychecks just as much as we do.
Nursery and Gounds Maintenance Training
* A variety of learning experiences are available for program participants working in the Key Center nursery and garden center.
* Program participants take active roles in the growth of sampling trees for the Citrus County Tree Enhancement Program with over 10,000 trees nurtured to date.
* We grow some of the flowers, plants and trees that are sold by the nonprofit nursery each year.
* Participants mow grass, edge, trim and do other clean up as required, gaining valuable experience in landscaping and lawn maintenance
* 14 individuals are on the nursery and grounds maintenance crew.
* We provide ground maintenance for our entire campus and for a number of businesses in the community.
Thrift Store Vocational Training
* The Key Center owns and operates two thrift stores located in Inverness, Lecanto, and Crystal River.
* The Thrift stores provide needed operating revenue but ultimately serve as a vocational training program for the program participants.
* Program participants gain experience as customer service clerks, cashiers, merchandisers and housekeepers.
* Key Center staff monitors and assist consumers.
* Program participants earn well-deserved wages through working in the donated item processing center, sorting donations, displaying merchandise, and as cashiers.
* The thrift stores provide a place to shop that benefits both clients and the community.
* All donated materials are tax deductible.
Community Based Employment
* With assistance from a job coach, program participants find employment in entry-level positions in a variety of businesses in the community.
* The job coach continues to work closely with the program participant to help them maintain their work positions.
* The job coach assists potential employers with applicant screening, initial job orientation and follow-along services as needed.
* 45 program participants are successfully employed in a variety of jobs in the community.
* Local businesses have found that hiring a Key Center program participant they get dedicated, hardworking, and reliable employees.
* Key Center program participants make such fantastic employees because they are trained in good work habits, enjoy and appreciate entry level positions, demonstrate job stability, and strive for excellent attendance.
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