Day Program
Highpointe offers professional day programs, which are community-based. Our community-based day services at Highpointe Care are geared towards ensuring that individuals have productive days and healthy doses of personal fulfillment.
Our adult day services give intellectually and developmentally challenged individuals the opportunity to engage in activities that help them to bond with the community and stretch themselves to realize personal potential. These activities include leisure and sports activities, employment sourcing and support, religious activities, shopping and breaking bread with other individuals., volunteering and attending classes in neighboring colleges.
Employment Support
Employment Support Services are a key part of the day services we offer at Highpointe. We encourage the individuals with whom we work to find meaningful work and earn themselves a decent living. We are fortunate to have worked with individuals who also see the need to work and share our enthusiasm to see them gainfully employed. In the same vein, we offer employment sourcing for employers from our pool of individuals, matching individuals with jobs to which they are best suited. In the end, both employer and employee are happy.
Notable corporate entities for whom Highpointe has sourced employees from among our individuals include –
- Home Depot
- Lowe’s
- Del Taco
- Taco Bell
Activities to Achieve/Increase Independence and Boost Self-Esteem
Our community-based day service, aims to help individuals to overcome their challenges and be reintegrated into society as efficiently as possible. Thus, our day services incorporate activities that help individuals feel better about life and themselves while challenging them to reach for the realization of their potentials. Activities that we guide our individuals to do, to increase their independence and boost their self-esteem include volunteering, recreational and sports activities, shopping. In each of these activities, individuals are guided by our helpful support workers in such a way that they have a sense of doing on their own.
Our wonderfully unique individuals have, in times past, been aided and guided to offer volunteer services at locations including –
- Non profit Organizations
- Thrift stores
- Food banks and
- Churches
Recreational activities greatly help in making individuals feel relaxed and happy with themselves and create the kind of positive energy they need to thrive. Recreational activities that they, with our help, engage in during day programs include –.
- Bowling
- Golf
- Movies
- Amusement parks
- Museums
- Farmers markets
Like everything else that we do at Highpointe Care, these services are customized to suit the peculiar needs of individuals and make them better community players with a sense of altruism and team spirit.