A Person-Centered Approach

Our most meaningful work is assisting the people we serve in working toward their own interests and desires. This may include a full day of work or a combination of work, community activities and socialization. We provide a positive and constructive atmosphere that builds people’s self-esteem and their ability to make choices. We emphasize self-determination and choices for people with disabilities.

We also provide community connections, community integration skills, and creative strategies for personal development. We work to develop a vocational plan for people with disabilities who do not typically fit into the traditional vocational services model.

Creating Partnerships

The unemployment rate for people with disabilities is higher than those without disabilities. As a socially responsible business it is important to develop a plan for including people with disabilities within employee development programs.

Our disability employment training will help you to establish a strategy for employing and managing individuals with disabilities. We provide training geared toward effectively hiring, managing, retaining, developing, and advancing employees with disabilities. Strategy and training services include content regarding employee self-identification and complying with affirmative action regulations and the American Disability Act.
We work with employers to provide support and training of employees at no cost to the employer. Services include applicant screening, employee training and support, continual employee assessment and employer satisfaction. We also provide identification and acquisition of workplace accommodations.

Developing a Plan

We are committed to understanding the values of everyone we serve. We work closely with the people who know them best, such as family members, spouses, friends, extended family, case managers, and primary care givers, to develop the most comprehensive, meaningful plan to assist the people we serve to attain lifelong outcomes. These planning methods may include “Person Centered Planning”, “Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope” (PATH), and “Essential Lifestyle Planning” (ELP).

Supported Employment

We work with employers to provide support and training of employees at no cost to the employer. Services include applicant screening, employee training and support, continual employee assessment and employer satisfaction. We also provide identification and acquisition of work place accommodations

Job Placement

We work to eliminate barriers to employment and bridge the gap between job seekers and the employers who want to hire them. Our vocational counselors work side by side with job seekers to identify industries and careers that suit their interests. We create a plan to help job seekers find the job that is right for them

Enrichment

Our person-centered Day Support Services provide individualized assessment and planning to help a person identify essential life skill needs and discover activities that enrich their life and support a person’s community relationships, involvement and inclusion

Supported Employment

Day Support Services are individualized, community-based training and support services that help a person develop and maintain essential and personally enriching life skills so they can access and participate in activities they prefer in their community.

Our Day Support Services are person-centered and provide individualized assessment and planning to help a person identify essential life skill needs and discover activities that enrich their life.

Day Support Services teach and develop essential and personally enriching life skills that support a person’s community relationships, involvement and inclusion.

Zenith Services is licensed under Minn. Stat. Chapter 245D as an intensive support services provider.

Essential life skills include:

  • Interpersonal communication skills
  • Interest-based decision making
  • Money management and budgeting
  • Personal self-care
  • Self-direction and goal setting
  • Active listening
  • Self-Advocacy

Enrichment activities

  • Exploring community activities and discovering the person’s preferences
  •  Identifying and supporting the person’s participation in their preferred leisure and hobby activities
  •  Arranging and providing assistance with the person’s preferred volunteer experiences
  • Developing and strengthening personal relationships with people the person chooses in the community

Job Placement

Our outstanding staff work to eliminate barriers to employment and bridge the gap between job seekers and the employers who want to hire them. Our vocational counselors work side by side with job seekers to identify industries and careers that suit their interests. We create a plan to help job seekers find the job that is right for them.

Enrichment

In our day program in Hopkins, DSP’s work with persons 1:1 or in a group setting on a variety of outcomes that focus on building leisure skills, community skills and work skills DSP’s provide transportation, meal preparation, personal cares and medication administration while working. Each position is tailored to the service provided; vocational services, supported employment services, and day program services.

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