ABILITIES UNLIMITED
Christy Wyatt, Case Manager
2100 Texas St. (Arkansas Aeroplex Bldg. 433), Blytheville, AR 72315
(870) 532-5333 7:30 AM - 3:30 PM M - F
FAX: (870) 532-5164
Email
Offers vocational and rehabilitation training for mentally and physically handicapped persons 18 and over with mild mental retardation, learning disabilities, mental illness, physical disabilities/illnesses or sensory disabilities. Identifies and measures a client's work-related behaviors and provides individualized plans to address specific needs, including habilitation training, diagnosis and evaluation; personal/social adjustment and counseling. Speech therapy provided when needed. Caseworker referrals are taken 24 hours a day. Medicaid Waiver Program available.
The sheltered workshop is certified as a Community Rehabilitation Program by Arkansas Rehabilitation Services offers the opportunity to gain valuable work skills and job placement assistance.
The Work Activity/Adult Development Program gives adults with mental retardation, epilepsy or cerebral palsy skills to help them become more independent.
Alternative Community Service offers adults with mental retardation one-on-one training to help gain independence and be more integrated in their community.
Transportation is provided. (211 8/16/08)
- 1104 Byrum Rd., Blytheville, AR 72315
870-763-7093 or 1-888-474-8275 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM Mon. - Fri.
FAX: 870-763-2243
- 437 S. Country Club Rd., Osceola, AR 72370
870- 563-5234 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM Mon. - Fri.
FAX: 870-563-3081
1-800-960-9270 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM Mon. - Fri.
- Vocational Rehabilitation Services Program
A comprehensive statewide program designed to provide employment related services to individuals with visual disabilities. Services assist individuals to secure, obtain or retain employment in careers consistent with their strengths, resources, priorities, concerns, abilities, capabilities, interests and informed choice.
- Vocational Rehabilitation Transition Services
These services for students are designed to promote movement from school to post-school. Transition services and activities are based on the student's needs, interests and preferences and include instruction, community experiences, development of employment and post-school objectives and as appropriate, acquisition of daily living skills and functional evaluation.
ARKANSAS REHABILITATION SERVICES
1616 Brookwood Dr., Little Rock, AR 72202
(501) 296-1600 (V/TTY) or 1-800-330-0632
1-800-330-0632 (V/TTY)
FAX: (501) 296-1655 Provides vocational rehabilitation for persons with disabilities.
EMPLOYMENT CENTER (Office for the Deaf & Hearing Impaired)
4601 W. Markham, Little Rock, AR 72205
V/TDD (501) 686-9433
FAX: (501) 686-9418
E-mail
INTERFAITH NEIGHBORS
111 W. Hale, Osceola, AR
(870) 563-3099
Operates a sheltered workshop (2007)
SUCCESSFUL EMPLOYMENT THROUGH ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY (SEAT) (
Arkansas Rehabilitation Services)
Barbara Gullett MSE, Program Director
26 Corporate Hill Dr., Little Rock, AR 72205
(501) 683-3000
E-mail
Arkansas Rehabilitation Services provides assessment through counselors to ensure maximum benefit from technology for employment and independence. (12/30/07)
SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
1403 S. Division, Blytheville, AR
James D. Garden, Jr., Branch Manager
(870) 763-4976 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Monday - Friday
1-800-772-1213 7 AM to 7 PM Monday - Friday
- Disability Benefits
Provides a continuing income when earnings are reduced or stopped because of inability to work due a medical condition that is expected to last at least one year or result in death.
- Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
Pays benefits to disabled adults and children who have limited income and resources. SSI benefits also are payable to people 65 and older without disabilities who meet financial limits. Some states supplement SSI checks for certain categories of recipients. If the state's supplemental payment is federally administered, individuals are automatically assessed for eligibility when they apply for SSI and the supplemental payment is included in their SSI check. If a state administers its own supplemental payments, individuals must apply separately at the state agency.
- Survivors Insurance
Provides monthly cash benefits to eligible survivors of workers covered under Social Security who have died.
STATUS PLUS
317 E. Main St., Blytheville, AR 72315
763-1584
Employment agency for the disabled.
SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT (
Arkansas Rehabilitation Services)
Hot Springs Rehabilitation Center
P.O. Box 1358, Hot Springs, AR 71902
(501) 624-4411, Ext. 238
FAX: (501) 624-0019
E-mail
- Programs that find paid, meaningful work in a variety of community-based settings for people who have disabilities and which assign a "job coach" to work side-by-side with each client and provide training in basic job skills and work-related behaviors, assistance with specific tasks as needed and whatever other initial or ongoing support is required to ensure that the individual retains competitive employment.
In the enclave model, groups of people with disabilities are trained to work as a team alongside employees in the host business by a specially trained on-site supervisor. A variation of the enclave approach is used in service industries (e.g., restaurants and hotels) where each person works on a separate job, dispersed throughout the company. In the mobile work crew model, a small team of people with disabilities works as a self-contained business and undertakes contract work such as landscaping and gardening projects. The crew works under the supervision of a job coach.