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Program: Rise, Inc., Spring Lake Park, Minnesota
Contact Person: Don Lavin
Website: http://www.rise.org

Rise is a private, non profit vocational rehabilitation agency that provides career planning, vocational training, employment, job placement, and support services to adults with disabilities and other barriers to employment. They also offer transitional housing and independent living skills services to adults who have mental health disabilities. Named Minnesota's Outstanding Community Rehabilitation Agency by its peers three times, it is a progressive non-profit corporation serving more 2,400 adults with significant disabilities annually.
Strategies to address barriers: Organizational | Individual

Don Lavin is the Vice President of RISE, Inc. and a member of T-TAP's CRP Leadership Network! RISE is a non-profit corporation that specializes in customized employment for unemployed and underemployed youth and adults with varied disabilities and employment challenges in Coon Rapids, Minnesota. Don is the CRP mentor to Coastal Center for Developmental Services, a T-TAP Technical Assistance site. Recently, Don and his RISE coworker, Nancy Hoff, visited Coastal Center to provide technical assistance. He has written a summary of this visit, sharing their observations with T-TAP.    Read about his visit.

Read Success Stories on Customized Employment
http://donlavin.blogspot.com

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