Personalized Training and Supports

Personalized Training and Supports

OCCK, Inc. services are individualized based on what people need to participate successfully in their home community.

Your Partner

We become your partner to find supports and services in the community to help you meet your needs.

A service coordination specialist can assist you and your family to ...

	gather information about your needs and goals to assist you with making choices
	plan services and supports
	find crisis assistance, if you need
	get supports from other community organizations such as home health, job service centers, technology centers, doctors, job coaches, living supports, etc.
	understand your financial rights and benefits
	understand your rights and how to speak up for yourself

Every person is capable of growth and learning through community experiences. OCCK believes it has the responsibility to help people gain skills, knowledge, and experience to increasingly use and benefit from resources available to all citizens in our communities.

We can help you learn the skills you need to succeed- better skills mean better opportunities in all areas of life. OCCK, Inc. trainers offer as little or as much support as you need to live successfully.

People will have the opportunity to use their homes, OCCK, Inc. facilitates and the community for personal and leisure time activities. Training can occur during the day or at night, seven days a week. Training is done in a variety of ways including individually or in small groups.

Home and Leisure

Home and leisure training and supports can include...

	making and keeping friends
	community awareness and access
	safety training and emergency assistance
	menu planning and cooking
	cleaning
	money handling, check writing and budgeting
	shopping
	home decorating
	self-help skills
	medication and health care skills
	leisure time activities
	accessing transportation
	citizen rights and responsibilities
	other training as requested.

Work

OCCK, Inc. Employment Services believes many people want and need work that is challenging and rewarding. A wide range of training opportunities are directed toward success at work including...

Contract work in local companies

Contract work in one of OCCK's work centers in Beloit, Concordia or Salina is also used to accomplish training goals. The work centers do a variety of activities intended to build personal and social skills as well as work skills.

Training is also available in Quality Custodial Systems (QCS), a custodial company owned by OCCK, Inc. QCS contracts with businesses to clean offices/buildings and maintains several rest areas on the interstate highway around Salina.

In Supported Employment services a job coach helps you locate jobs you might like, then helps you adjust to the work place. As you become more comfortable in the job, the job coach sees you less and less. A job coach is only involved when needed. People have found jobs in grocery stores, department stores, manufacturing plants, restaurants, and fast food places doing many different things.

OCCK, Inc.

	helps people find community resources and natural supports needed to be successful.
	believes people should start with the least amount of support needed to be successful
	believes all people can learn and should have an opportunity to learn throughout their lifetime
	knows training reduces risk. External supports will occasionally fail, but learned skills will always be available to the individual
	believes people should control their own lives and learn to make decisions for themselves.

OCCK Services are...

	voluntary, controlled by the individual, and designed to teach skills
	designed to support and train not supervise and control peoples' lives
	intended to teach skills needed to access natural community supports.
	provided in an individual's home or apartment. Because OCCK, Inc. owns a limited number of residential settings, most new services are provided in homes people own, lease or rent themselves.

Payment of Services

There are a variety of state and local resources to pay for some or all these services. OCCK will help you explore these resources or work out an agreement for you to pay for your own services.