Skill Building

The Skill Building Program provides an array of services to adults with significant barriers to employment and functioning independently in their community.

The program emphasizes vocational training, community integration and personal independence. Services are designed to assist individuals with developing and strengthening their independent functioning in daily living, communication, socialization, work skills and productivity. Using a person-centered approach, a participant’s individual plan may include classroom training/activities, volunteer opportunities, community-based experiences, paid work in a variety of settings and supported community employment.

Services are designed to assist persons with functional limitations that may include: limited work experience or job skills, limited skills in reading or writing, limited skills necessary for effective social interaction and communication, limited coping skills, and difficulty attending to tasks. The Skill Building Program also serves persons who have limited visual, hearing, physical and/or mobility disabilities.

Contact Information:

Marquierite A. Saba LMSW, ACSW, C-ACYFSW
Manager, Behavioral Health Services Division
Phone: (313)557-8664
Fax: (313)557-8564
Email: msaba@goodwilldetroit.org

Supports Coordination

Goodwill's Support Coordination Service provides face-to-face contacts and activities for consumers with developmental disabilities to ensure that:

  • The individual's needs and desires are determined.
  • The supports and services needed and desired by the consumer are identified and implemented.
  • Employment and housing concerns are addressed.
  • A Person-Centered Plan of Service (PCPS) is developed and implemented that reflects the individuals's desires and needs, addresses health safety and promotes community participation/inclusion.
  • Social networks are developed.
  • Natural supports (family, friends and volunteers) and community supports are encouraged.
  • Appointments and meetings are scheduled.
  • Income benefits are maximized.

In addition to the services listed above, participants will have the opportunity to access other programs available at Goodwill Industries of Detroit, including Skill Building, Supported Employment and other vocational/training programs. Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit is a barrier-free facility.

Goodwill is committed to assisting Synergy Partners-Managed Comprehensive Provider Network in providing a full array of person-centered services and supports to consumers with developmental disabilities in Wayne County. Goodwill is determined to help them achieve their fullest potential.

Contact Information:

Rotesa Baker, M.A., L.P.C.
Supports Coordination Manager
Phone: (313)557-8610
Main: (313) 964-3900
E-mail: rbaker@goodwilldetroit.org

Supports Coordination is funded by Synergy Partners, LLC.

Skill Building is funded by Detroit-Wayne County Community Mental Health Agency (DWCCMHA) and the Mangaged Comprehensive Provider Network

Skill Building
Admission Requirements

Participants must:

  • Be a resident of Wayne County and no longer receiving special education
  • Be at least eighteen years of age with a Developmental Disability
  • Possess basic verbal, manual or assisted communication skills
  • Demonstrate the ability to independently perform basic self-care skills
  • Ability to function independently in a classroom or community based activity.
  • Have a means of transportation to and from Goodwill (transportation costs may be reimbursable)
  • Be able to mobilize within the 2-story building independently
  • Possess a willingness and interest in achieving goals and objectives leading to community placement.
  • Not display on-going patterns of behavior that require continual or repeated periods of separation from others, physical intervention or one-on-one supervision.

 

 

 

 

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