HAVEN FOR DISABLED WORKERS A-OK.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER - Desert Haven Enterprises, which provides vocational and on-the-job training and support for developmentally disabled adults, has received three-year accreditation. The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation rehabilitation: see physical therapy. Facilities took the favorable fa·vor·a·ble adj. 1. Advantageous; helpful: favorable winds. 2. Encouraging; propitious: a favorable diagnosis. 3. action after reviewing performance in employment planning Planning that prescribes how to apply force and/or forces to attain specified military objectives. Employment planning concepts are developed by combatant commanders through their component commanders. See also employment. , skills training, job development, job-site training and job support. ``We have all worked very hard and are incredibly proud of our accomplishments with regard to the recent CARF survey, but we are never content to rest on our laurels,'' said Executive Director Jenni Moran of Desert Haven. ``There is still much work to be done in fulfilling our mission to persons with development disabilities.'' This was Desert Haven's seventh consecutive three-year accreditation, best available from the 40-year-old commission, based in Tucson. A team visited Desert Haven to measure its performance against commission standards. Desert Haven is a nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. but trains and places developmentally disabled workers in for-profit work in the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley , including some jobs at off-site businesses. Desert Haven started in 1955 as a play group for a Lancaster couple's young son. It developed into a preschool and later a job-training center and a workshop. It now trains and employs about 400 people in a 24,000-square-foot vocational training center in the Lancaster Business Park and at local businesses. The jobs include packaging medical supplies and designer hair-care products, cleaning and sorting containers and mowing mow 1 n. 1. The place in a barn where hay, grain, or other feed is stored. 2. A stack of hay or other feed stored in a barn. lawns. Desert Haven staffers offer on-the-job support and other services while the trainees are learning their tasks and adjusting to their work environment. The job coaching is gradually phased out. For information about Desert Haven, including how to subcontract sub·con·tract n. A contract that assigns some of the obligations of a prior contract to another party. intr. & tr.v. sub·con·tract·ed, sub·con·tract·ing, sub·con·tracts packaging and assembly jobs or hire trained workers into a business, call (661) 948-8402. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- 2) Developmentally disabled workers package products at Desert Haven, above. Below, Judy Dunlap sorts bandages. Jeff Goldwater/Daily News |
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