TAJ Professional Care Workers

Helps enhancing each individual's ability to navigate, interact, build relationships, participate in community activities and conduct transactions as independently as possible in the community.

Participants take part in their community and improve their personal skills by providing access to regular meaningful social contact and stimulating activities. Includes:

• Daily living skills
• Education and learning activities
• Social activities
• Recreation and leisure activities
• Accessing Community services

Provides customized, flexible support to individuals who require assistance to live as independently as possible. Different levels of supervision are offered to meet the needs of participants in their own home, apartment setting, or anywhere they are living where they might benefit from these services.

The services may include:

• Managing a home to meet the participant's needs
• Support to encourage and foster community inclusion
• Assistance and education to support problem-solving skills
• Money management assistance
• Medical appointment scheduling and attendance
• Cooking and related household shopping

Provides services to adults with disabilities who are focused on learning life skills in a supervised and structured setting. Training activities can be customized for the individual to receive specific skills and social training to meet the diverse needs and promote personal growth in maximizing functional ability, independence, and exposure to real-life activities.

Training can be arranged at home.

Areas of support may include:

• Personal hygiene
• Grocery shopping
• Meal preparation
• General cleaning (Sweeping, vacuuming, and laundry)

Provides operational reading, writing, and math skills according to individualized developmental levels. This component directly correlates with community inclusion and volunteer opportunities. Individuals could practice skills in-house prior to going out into the community.

Provides an Equine Assisted Learning Program that is run by a certified equine assisted learning facilitator.

Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) is a therapeutic and educational approach that involves interactions between humans and horses to facilitate personal growth and learning.

Participants engage in objectively driven exercises that are developed to encourage self-esteem and learning valuable life skills through hands-on experiences while working with horses.

Provides individuals with disabilities fitness activities and education on making healthy choices to promote healthy living. Activities are determined by the groups' interests and abilities.

Provides employment support to assist individuals with disabilities on the job site. A job coach helps individuals both inside and outside of the workplace, giving them the benefit from specific training to help them learn what to expect in the work environment.

Supports may include:

• Help learn skills related to performing specific job tasks
• Help to learn interpersonal skills necessary in the workplace
• Help to connect participants with resources to successfully perform their job
• Help to identify the tasks that make up an individual's job
• Help to develop strategies to learn a job

This service may be provided from a few days to several months, depending on the needs of the individual, and is intended to fade with time.

Provides a summer camp to children with disabilities. Camp is divided into two age groups ages 12-14 years and ages 15-17 years. A variety of activities are offered to build friendships while learning new skills. Includes:

• Learning about horses with hands on activities in the farm (EAL)
• Confederation Trails, nature walks and hiking
• Soccer baseball, Frisbee golf, bowling and golf
• Beachcombing ,clam digging and beach picnics
• Gym
• Scavenger Hunts
• Arts and crafts
• Movie Afternoon
• Cooking and baking
• Swimming and more