FUTURES EXPLORED INC

(Growing Adapting Relaxing Doing Enjoying Naturally) – Our Antioch and Brentwood locations provide services and supports to individuals with significant physical and cognitive disabilities, who frequently also require some support for Restricted Health Care Conditions. They are active in choosing their activities for each day.

Provides supports and opportunities for individuals to be active in their community, by being community volunteers, working on employability skills and gaining employment experience. The supports can be customized to meet the individual support needs and outcomes desired.

provides the supports to help individuals find, secure and maintain jobs in the community, whether it is with on-demand support (a Job Coach with a small group of individuals) or intermittent support for someone working independently at community employer, the focus is helping individuals become more financially independent thru work.

Educational Services: These are services that support individuals interested in pursuing a Post-Secondary education experience, whether it is full-time support thru our CCTP (Community College Transition Program) or more individualized support thru our Educational Tailored Day Services. The goal is to support the educational outcomes of the individuals we support. In partnership with San Juan Unified, we offer Project SEARCH, a yearlong internship program at the Morse Avenue Kaiser Hospitial.

Employment Services: Provides the supports to help individuals find, secure and maintain jobs in the community, whether it is with on-demand support (a Job Coach with a small group of individuals) or intermittent support for someone working independently at community employer, the focus is helping individuals become more financially independent thru work. We partner with several State and UC agencies to provide employability opportunities while providing a service to the State. Our Employment Tailored Day Services has really helped individuals to explore and discover what are their employment strengths and types of jobs they want to pursue and supports successful placements.

Provides supports to meet the needs of individuals with developmental disabilities social needs, including an Inclusion Film Camp every summer for youth 10 to 22 years of age

The Practical Film and Media Workshop is an upto 2 year program that uses film and media as a means to teach vocational, employability and social skills. It promotes independence and growth as individuals work as a team on a film crew to write, produce, direct, shoot and edit films.

Social Ventures: Futures Explored demonstrates the value of individuals with developmental disabilities as an employer, with 5 % of our workforce being individuals with developmental disabilities, as well as using Social Ventures as the living classroom to teach employability skills and provide entry level employment experience.

Futures Films – Is a full service Media Production company that employs students and graduates from our Film and Media Workshop to produce videos for community clients.

Artist’s Den – Is a working Art studio and Gallery located in Concord, as both a place to learn new art skills as well as develop as a part of the broader art community.