VALLEY ACHIEVEMENT CENTER

Our After School Programs serve children ages 6 - 22. This program helps children improve adaptive, communication and social skills, as well as decrease maladaptive behaviors.

One-to-one instruction in the afternoon to develop communication, functional living, socialization, adaptive behavior, and motor skills.

Helps children to improve communication and social skills and to decrease challenging behaviors, to allow the student to succeed in his or her regular environment.

Provides on-site programming to adults starting at age 18. The program provides individuals with the knowledge and skills to improve functional living skills, including daily living skills, proactive strategies for behavior management, self-help skills, community and environmental awareness, self-advocacy, and relational building skills.

This program provides individual and group supported employment. The individual program helps individuals obtain and successfully maintain employment. Group supported employment provides employment opportunities for adults who lack the skills for individual employment, with goals to foster skills needed to transition to individual supported employment.

Provides in-home services for individuals who are in an independent living environment. Services include assistance with daily living skills, money management, self-advocacy, emergency response, safety awareness, transportation, and other services that allow the individual to reside in his or her home.

Valley Achievement Center's (VAC's) Paid Internship Program (PIP) provides adults with autism and other developmental disabilities with paid internships in the community to help clients learn important job skills and to encourage employers in the community to hire individuals with disabilities for ongoing regular employment with their company. Following a one-year paid internship, the company will have the opportunity to hire the individual as a regular paid employee.