APLUS - Adult People Learning Useful Skills

The Arc of Lane County’s program, Adult People Learning Useful Skills, is a center based afternoon respite program designed to provide instruction and practice of useful skills in an environment that encourages independence and fosters cooperation. Focus is on those skills that will enable participants to more fully participate in the responsibilities and pleasures of everyday life. By providing supports at individual levels of achievement we ensure that every person enjoys some level of growth and success.

Our method for success envisions three principles. First, that staff will be well informed of their responsibilities and of the individual needs of the participants. This ensures the safety of each individual and the consistency necessary for growth. Second, we hope to encourage enthusiasm for activities and reduce anxiety by using a consistent schedule. In this way participants can know what to look forward to on each day.

The final principle is that each staff will have a good working knowledge of each participant. Every person is unique in his or her likes and dislikes and by addressing a person in a proven, positive way we hope to establish the kinds of relationships where people enjoy learning and growing.

The participants love our new computer lab where they can learn computer skills, enjoy supervised web surfing, listen to music, play games or learn about subjects that they are interested in.

Weekly music sessions get everyone involved and are fun as well as theraputic.

The APLUS Program is a chance to make friends, do arts and crafts, and learn social skills.

For more information please contact:
Misty Lyster, Director of Children & Family Services
541-206-7693
misty.lyster@arclane.org