Progress Inc.
Programs
Budget
$890,300.00
Description
Opportunities provided Monday through Friday for program participants to be out and about in the community, participating in enrichment activities, attending events, visiting local sites and attractions.
Program Areas Served
None
$890,300.00
Description
Opportunities provided Monday through Friday for program participants to be out and about in the community, participating in enrichment activities, attending events, visiting local sites and attractions.
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$4,817,700.00
Description
Provides the supports necessary, specific to each individual, such that they may reside in ?their? home within the community, according to their personal vision of their life.
Program Areas Served
None
$4,817,700.00
Description
Provides the supports necessary, specific to each individual, such that they may reside in ?their? home within the community, according to their personal vision of their life.
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$700,000.00
Description
Through the Employment Services Program, Progress uses a multi-pronged approach to maximize economic self-sufficiency through employment. Progress provides internships for students, and for adults who have not been successful in securing long-term employment through Project Search. Project Search provides the training so that interns are job-ready after the 9-month internship. Progress collaborates in a student model with Metro Nashville public schools and Embassy Suites hotel, and in an adult model collaborations with Vanderbilt Children's Hospital. In 2015, the employment program expanded to include people with all types of disabilities and Progress became a Ticket to Work employment network. Ticket to Work provides individuals with varying disabilities with the resources they need to secure employment. Services the network provides includes: resume preparation; interviewing skills; job search support; communication with prospective employers; and other services.
Program Areas Served
None
$700,000.00
Description
Through the Employment Services Program, Progress uses a multi-pronged approach to maximize economic self-sufficiency through employment. Progress provides internships for students, and for adults who have not been successful in securing long-term employment through Project Search. Project Search provides the training so that interns are job-ready after the 9-month internship. Progress collaborates in a student model with Metro Nashville public schools and Embassy Suites hotel, and in an adult model collaborations with Vanderbilt Children's Hospital. In 2015, the employment program expanded to include people with all types of disabilities and Progress became a Ticket to Work employment network. Ticket to Work provides individuals with varying disabilities with the resources they need to secure employment. Services the network provides includes: resume preparation; interviewing skills; job search support; communication with prospective employers; and other services.
Program Areas Served
None
Description
Well trained, highly-skilled professional caregivers provide the following services: sitter services, homemaker, personal care, respite care and transportation services
Program Areas Served
None
Well trained, highly-skilled professional caregivers provide the following services: sitter services, homemaker, personal care, respite care and transportation services
Program Areas Served
None
Description
In 2013, Progress began the SmART! (Scrap Made Art) supplies store as a social enterprise to provide employment opportunities to some of the people with intellectual disabilities that we support, help the environment by reducing the amount of items going into landfills, and to provide a place where members of the community could purchase re-purposed art supplies at a very low price. Through the SmART! store, Progress receives donated items from the public, ranging in everything from "art books to zippers." The staff at SmART! are people with intellectual disabilities who are supported by Progress. They clean, sort, and stock the store from these donations so that teachers, students, craftspeople, and the public can purchase these repurposed items for their own projects at very low cost (more than 95% of the merchandise is less than $5). Since opening our doors in June of 2014, SmART! has saved over 500,000 items from the land fill - more than 30,000 cubic feet of landfill space!
Program Areas Served
None
In 2013, Progress began the SmART! (Scrap Made Art) supplies store as a social enterprise to provide employment opportunities to some of the people with intellectual disabilities that we support, help the environment by reducing the amount of items going into landfills, and to provide a place where members of the community could purchase re-purposed art supplies at a very low price. Through the SmART! store, Progress receives donated items from the public, ranging in everything from "art books to zippers." The staff at SmART! are people with intellectual disabilities who are supported by Progress. They clean, sort, and stock the store from these donations so that teachers, students, craftspeople, and the public can purchase these repurposed items for their own projects at very low cost (more than 95% of the merchandise is less than $5). Since opening our doors in June of 2014, SmART! has saved over 500,000 items from the land fill - more than 30,000 cubic feet of landfill space!
Program Areas Served
None
CEO/Executive Director/Board Comments
| Providing support to human beings requires constant flexibility and vigilance. Not only do interests and desires change over time, abilities and health conditions change as well ? sometimes for the better and sometimes not. This creates different kinds of challenges for an organization like Progress, whose business it is to perform the tasks required to help people achieve as much independence and happiness as possible, while remaining healthy and safe. One challenge that we face involves issues of aging. We support some individuals who have been with Progress since inception. That means that they are now 40 years older! Thus, we must address their changing needs and find ways to continue to enable them to enjoy lives that are happy, healthy and safe. All the programs at Progress are evaluated on an ongoing basis,- through many means, both internal and external. The State of Tennessee Department of Intellectual Disability Services performs annual quality assurance surveys. Additionally, there are reviews by the Department of Licensure and the Bureau of TennCare. Progress has fairly sophisticated internal quality assurance processes which are the responsibility of our Director of Accreditation and Continuous Improvement and her team. We use an electronic database called TIMAS for all program documentation and medication tracking. Progress also has an "alert status" designation that is used to identify a situation that needs extra supervision, training, or intervention. This ensures that the needed support is given before a significant problem emerges. |
