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Show DAVIS COUNTY CLIPPER. FEBRUARY 25. 1977 County Development Center in assembling wooden toys. Davis Development Center By ROSELYN KIRK retarded. But the training center also accepts the from sheets Providing employment and physically handicapped, the vocational training for the blind and the emotionally handicapped is the goal of the disturbed client. Davis County Developmental in! The center first Center in Farmington which 1974 with 12 clients opened and three is housed in two locations staff members. Currently the one at the Monte Vista School trains 71 clients and and the other at the produc- program has a staff of 14. The school, 51 North tion building at operates under the direction Main. of the Davis School District and has additional financing BOB DANIELS, director of from the State Division of of the center, says purpose Family Services and the the center is to provide voca- Division Rehabilitation Sertional training so that the vices. be gainhandicapped may fully employed. Some of those MR. DANIELS said the! trained are placed in com- center is unique. Utah is the! mercial jobs, others remain state in which facilities in the sheltered workshop only for the handicapped are under operated by the school. They the jurisdiction of school dis-- : are paid salaries based on trict. work they accomplish. The Developmental Center We have a $225,000 a five-pastresses program business here in the sheltered evaluation, Mr. work workshop facilities, adjustment, sheltered, Daniels said. The school coand placement! ntracts with companies to employment, follow-up- . and provide piece work. THE SOME TRAINEES collate is now handled in! program road atlases, others assemble the at 51 North Mainl building wedding cake decorations, in Farmington. Transitional! .others construct green house and extended programs will flats, while some assemble be housed in the downtown for module kits industrial art Mr. Daniels said.! classes in four school dis- facility, train Four instructors tricts. at each location.. Mr. Daniels said some of studentsstudents are trained the trained handicapped are Twenty in the downtown facility. faster than the norm achieved line worker.. the of the! About by assembly students will not be able to' THE Developmental Center acquire the job and social; is making plans to begin a skills that are needed to new skill training program in receive outside employment1 medical housekeeping at the and so will remain at the! Davis North Medical Center school in the sheltered in Layton. The center an- workshop. i i rt ' al two-thir- ticipates that, after this training, even more of the students will be placed in jobs outside the center. Since the first of the year, four handicapped trainees have been placed in gainful employment. Their places of employment are Millies Floral in Farmington, American Linen in Salt Lake City, Boyce Transportation and the Bay View Elementary School. THE Development Center serves as a rehabilitation facility for handicapped adults, from ages 16 to 65. Mr. Daniels said the largest group in the center are the mentally of steel and drill holes in metal. In the same shop area, some workers cut pieces of wood that will ultimately be sanded and assembled into wooden toys. These toys are put together on an assembly, line basis. SOME OF the clients learn to do machine sewing, which is necessary to construct the wedding cake decorations made up of tiny brides and grooms. The clients also receive instruction on proper job behavior. One class was discussing what clothes were proper to wear to work, while another individual was testing with a school evaluator to see if he had acquired the survival words needed for the job training. School records are kept by trained personnel on each of clients punch In with a time clock and for the work they produce. art paid the clients. Sessions are scheduled with Roberta Dee, I spent a lot social worker. of time on group work, she said. We conduct social skills class and do a lot of group work in career awareness. Other group work prepares the clients with employment readiness skills. MS. DEE also conducts, some individual counseling sessions. Recently a parents group n with a committee has been formed to set-usocial activities and keep the staff informed as to what is happening to clients in other settings. Jeri Mickelseon is chairperson of the parents seven-perso- p group. MR. DANIELS said' 16 to 18 potential clients are on a waiting list, hoping to be accepted at the THEIR production capacity Center. After varies, with some earning as Developmental the initial interview and much as $150 a month, while clients work on the trainee on the other end of evaluation, floor and are observed by the the scale may earn $6. High instructors. After observaproducers will only be tion, they are placed in the a hours four day,, producing program or Mr. Daniels said. are placed in the workshop and are geared to eventual job CLIENTS ARE paid every placement. two weeks for their producEither group may evention. Some of the contract reach community tually work is for large companies Mr. Daniels like Hercules. Other trainees employment, said. Dan Kline, placement work on ground straps for officer said, The step from Posiden Missiles. A portion of to the community is here the work is done with high small. powered equipment in the shop where the trained clients Photos By Fred Wright stamp out certain shapes' j All A trainee puts the finishing touches on a figure used in wedding cake decorations. currently Shirley Morton cuts a wedding bell used In decorations for wedding cakes. Dave Shiner and Jimmy Weber used table saws to cut bodies for the wooden toys t assembled at the Development Center. John Woodard Is an axle on one of the wooden toys produced for sale by clients learning vocational skills. de-burrl- ng Helen Woodrum, Carolyn Long and Sharon Bosley work in the foreground assembling grooms for wedding cake decorations. |