Programs
Programs
Educational
Educational
Provides operational reading, writing, and math skills according to individualized developmental levels. This component directly correlates with community inclusion and volunteer opportunities. Individuals have the opportunity to practice skills in-house prior to going out into the community.
Equine Assisted Learning
Equine Assisted Learning
Our Equine Assisted Learning Program is run by a Certified Equine Assisted Learning Facilitator.
What is Equine Assisted Learning?
Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) is a learner based educational experience with horses. More specifically, it is an effective approach to human development that encourages individual and team growth. Participants engage in objectively driven exercises and find themselves learning valuable life skills in a fun and exciting atmosphere while working with horses. Equine Assisted learning has proven to be effective, powerful, positive, educational, and creative . This program emphasizes it's curriculum of objectively driven exercises and facilitating life skills through positively reinforced interaction with horses. Exercises are developed to encourage self-esteem and self-confidence through validated, hands-on experiences. Current research has found this experiential form of learning to be most effective as the person learning will retain the newly acquired skill.
Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteer Opportunities
Draws upon individual strengths and interests, thereby providing experiential opportunities to make friends, learn new skills and hone individual vocational skills and potential employment prospects.
Individuals have the opportunity to practice skills in-house prior to going out into the community.
Summer Camp
Summer Camp
Join us for a summer of adventures, learning, and memory-making in action! Find a unique opportunity for learning at summer camp where individuals facing unique challenges can participate and get the special attention they require.
Fitness and Healthy Living
Fitness and Healthy Living
Fitness and Healthy Living Promotes healthy living by providing exercise, work out programs and educating individuals about making healthy choices throughout the day. Activities are determined by the groups’ interests and abilities.
Community Based Day Program Services
Community Based Day Program Services
Focuses on enhancing each individual’s ability to navigate, interact, build relationships, participate in community activities and conduct transactions as independently as possible in the community.
Community-Based Day Program Services helps adults with disabilities to take part in their community and improve their personal skills by providing access to regular meaningful social contact and stimulating activities.
Activities may include:
daily living skills
education and learning activities
social activities
recreation and leisure activities.
accessing Community services.
Community Supported Living
Community Supported Living
TAJ's Community Supported Living Program provides customized, flexible support to individuals who require assistance to live as independently as possible. TAJ’s Community Supported Living offers different levels of supervision to meet the needs of our participants in their own home, apartment setting, or anywhere they are living where they might benefit from these services.
Community Supported Living individuals live independently in their own home or apartment through a variety of support 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
Daily Living
Skills
Daily Living
Skills
TAJ's Daily Living Skills program provides services to adults with disabilities who are focused on learning life skills in a supervised and structured setting. The program is designed to meet the diverse needs of individuals and promote personal growth in maximizing functional ability, independence, and exposure to real-life activities.
The Daily Living Skills program can be customized for the individual to receive specific skills and social training.
Areas of support may include a variety of personal care tasks based on the individual's needs such as personal hygiene, grocery shopping, meal preparation, general cleaning, sweeping, vacuuming, and laundry.
In the Daily Living Skills program, the primary focus is to participate in and build on those meaningful and necessary activities that will allow a person to reach their personal goals and enjoy greater independence in their life.
Job Coaching
Job Coaching
Are you looking for assistance at your job?
We offer employment support to assist participants on the job site. In addition to working on skills related to performing specific job tasks, a job coach also helps with interpersonal skills necessary in the workplace.
Other supports include helping connect participants with resources to successfully perform their job.
Job and task analysis, meant to identify the tasks that make up an individual’s job.
To instruct an individual and to develop strategies to learn a job.
We work with an individual both in and outside of the workplace giving them the benefit from specific training to help them learn what to expect in the work environment.
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.