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Triangle has received a two-year certification from the Massachusetts Department of Mental Retardation's Survey and Certification team valid through May 3, 2010.
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Adult Day Health Services (back to top)
Triangle, Inc. is the newest provider of Adult Day Health Services in the Greater Boston area. Triangle, Inc. provides day care services to frail elders and disabled adults that need a structured and supervised environment.
Triangle’s goal is to provide a wide range of services and supports to elders or adults with physical disabilities or individuals whose cognitive condition requires services in a structured, supervised and supportive program.
Specific Program Goals are to provide:
- Assessment of Needs
- Development of a Care Plan
- Support to Family and Other Caregivers
- Coordination of Internal and External Services
- Nursing, Restorative Care, Counseling, and Nutritional Services
The Program operates Monday through Friday 8:00 am to 4:00 pm and provides the following services:
- Health Care supervision and monitoring by a RN and qualified staff.
- Therapeutic activities and recreational programs.
- Rehabilitation services for qualified participants.
- Transportation to and from Triangle, Inc.
- Nutritious hot lunch and snacks.
For more information about Triangle, Inc. Adult Day Health Program please call 781-322-0400 or e-mail mavery@triangle-inc.org
Traditionally, individuals with disabilities have had a higher rate of unemployment than the general population. In 1989 it was established that individuals with disabilities were unemployed at a rate of 33%, four times the state level. The student with a disability has an even greater barrier when seeking employment. The students for the most part are unexposed to the world of work, have little concept of work, and have parents that have apprehensions and fears about their child participating in the community. The youth graduating from high school with a disability, who is challenged by physical, mental or emotional limitations, is inexperienced, is uncertain of their career direction and has no viable job plan, in addition they have not attained the vocational milestones of other students.
In developing the School-to-Career Project: Employment Options and Opportunities, Triangle has designed a program that is consistent with the agency mission of assisting people with disabilities in the attainment of employment in the least restrictive environment and one that permits the individual to chose, gain, and retain employment in an integrated worksite with natural supports. Triangle's School to Work Program is designed to be pragmatic yet comply with both federal and state regulations. The Transition Program has three components: Assessment and Evaluation, the Job Club, and Placement and Job Coaching. Each component specifically addresses employment barriers that the student confronts as an individual and focuses on the challenges of the working world and in seeking employment. The program was designed not only to give the student work exposure and experience but to give the student the tools, knowledge, and practical outlook to be successful in the job market. Students will receive individual evaluation, counseling and job coaching. classes, workshops, and support sessions will be taught in groups encouraging peer support and input.
The Assessment and Evaluation component provides a comprehensive screening and evaluation of each student before a concrete goal is determined. The evaluation incorporates the student's physical tolerance, skills, interests, assesses competitive level, exposure to a variety of hands on work samples, observation of work behavior, motivation and attitude.
The Job Club is designed to expose, provide and train the student in the skills necessary to obtain and retain employment. The Job club focuses on such employability competencies as interviewing skills, job applications and the role of the supervisor. In addition, life skills topics such as stress management and self confidence building are incorporated into the program.
In the third phase, Placement and Job Coaching , the student with the assistance of the Employment Specialist acquires employment. The Employment Specialist coordinates the student's placement: orientating both the student and the employer, learning the job, and training the student on specific job tasks.
The Job Placement Program provides job development on-the job training, and follow-along services. An individualized job placement plan is developed by a Triangle Employment Specialist and the person served. Depending on the plan developed, the individual served may, for example, receive intensive on the job training by a job coach when first placed into a job. Once the initial training phase is complete, job coach services are reduced then concluded. The individual remains affiliated with Triangle while working at their job in the community and receives on-going support and counseling as required.
Triangle's Job Placement Program provides - services to over 100 individuals on an annual basis. The referrals represent individuals with a wide range at disabilities including mental retardation, traumatic brain injury, blindness, visual impairment, physical disability, mental illness, and substance abuse. Jobs developed for individuals are wide ranging, examples are assembly positions, administrative assistant jobs, salad preparers, shipper-receivers, grocery baggers, and bus drivers.
Triangle operates a variety of work programs for people with disabilities as part of its Work and Community Employment Services. The purpose of these programs is to evaluate, train, and assist individuals in learning the skills necessary to work in the most independent and integrated environment possible. In addition to participation in paid work experiences, individuals may receive additional services by offering group training sessions such as Work Awareness, Peer Support, Functional Academics, Money Management, Hygiene, Nutrition, and Community Skills.
Triangle's Work-Services include its sub-contract department which provides a diversity of paid work tasks for each individual work is available in collating, assembly, packaging, shipping-receiving and sealing. Triangle's Wood Products Division manufactures wood gift items and provides jobs in assembly, machine operation and packaging. Triangle also provides training programs in janitorial and cafeteria services.
In Community Employment Services, individuals work in local businesses and industry. At these sites, workers with disabilities work in a setting alongside people without disabilities while receiving individualized support, supervision, and training from a Triangle staff member.
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Residential Support Program
Triangle has been providing residential supports for over thirty years. The organization operates ten residences serving fifty-one people north of Boston.
The following is a list of the types of supports Triangle typically provides to individuals receiving residential services:
· Routine & preventive medical care & follow-up
· Support with activities of daily living
· Support with personal care
· Medication monitoring, ordering, storing, administration and/or supervision
· Training and advocacy in the area of human/civil rights
· Nutritional guidance
· Opportunities for varied and meaningful relationships
· Assistance in identifying and pursuing opportunities for personal growth
· Support around the exercise of control in their lives
· Accessing available benefits
· Support with money management
This list is certainly not exhaustive, but represents a sampling of the available supports. In addition to the above, we recognize that people have more specific individual needs and hopes. Needs are assessed and plans to support people in these areas developed and implemented. Further, we acknowledge that needs and desires evolve over time. Our supports are flexible and responsive to this evolution.
Triangle encourages and supports individuals in being productive and active members of their community, to the extent desired. Our staff assists people in accessing services in their community and with participation in clubs, organizations, or activities that may interest them.
Knowing the significance of families in peoples’ lives and the important source of natural supports that they provide, Triangle strongly encourages families to be involved with individuals we support. Staff works to help facilitate involvement based on individual circumstances and needs. This area is particularly important when one is making a major life change. Moving to a new home and/or away from one’s family or primary caregiver is a major life transition around which this support is critical. Our organization has the necessary experience to help people make this transition as smooth as possible.For more information, contact Jennifer Killeen, Director of Residential Services at:
(781) 322-0400 or email jkilleen@triangle-inc.org
Computer technology and the Internet have tremendous potential to broaden the lives and increase the independence and ability to communicate of people with disabilities.
A study by the U.S. Department of Education indicates that Americans with disabilities are less than half as likely to own a computer as their non-disabled counterparts and are less than one-quarter as likely to use the Internet.
Triangle is continuously striving to build resources to provide exposure to and training in technology and the Internet to more of our program participants. Recently, this has been expanded to our Residential Support Programs.
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