Nonprofit human services organization helping individuals with disabilities or disadvantages reach their full potential.
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discovering
interests
and finding community
Helping individuals with disabilities explore their interests, build relationships, and experience life in their community.
Life ENrichment Activities Program
"LEAP is something I look forward to everyday."
~Renee, LEAP participant
The Life Enrichment Activities Program (LEAP) is a day activity program for adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities.Through small group, community-based activities, LEAP participants discover interests, explore community attractions, build relationships, and participate in volunteer opportunities.
Services aim to:
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Provide the support necessary to build and strengthen relationships between family members, friends, and members of the local community.
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Find places where an individual’s interest, culture, talent, and gifts can be contributed and shared with others with similar interests.
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Provide opportunities for people to do things they enjoy as well as new and interesting things that involve the broader community.
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Support participation in clubs, association, and organizations as members and in decision-making capacities.
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Increase the skills necessary to initiate, plan and engage in activities - alone or with others – out in the individual’s community.
Skill-building is incorporated into the program's daily activities. We work with individuals on things like:
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waiting your place in line,
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appropriate eye contact,
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respecting personal space,
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taking turns in a conversation,
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recognizing hazards or unsafe situations in the community,
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using watches, phones, computers, clocks, maps, street signs, calendars, bus schedules, community landmarks, signage & symbols, alarms, etc.
Activities are non-employment services that are not duplicative of the services delivered as part of Shangri-La’s CES Program.
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Service Area
Marion County
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Eligibility Information
Individuals must be at least 18 years of age, have a diagnosed intellectual or developmental disability, and an established Marion County Community Developmental Disabilities Program (CDDP) or brokerage case manager who can make a referral for services if applicable.
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Learn about the LEAP by meeting Shangri-La staff
and LEAPsters in the program.