Hudson Milestones: Adult Activities

The Adult Activities Department provides day programming for over 90 individuals with developmental disabilities of the Hudson County community.

Adult Training Centers (ATCs)

The purpose of Hudson Milestones Adult Training Center programs is to provide individuals with developmental disabilities with meaningful and productive activities throughout the day.

Hudson Milestones operates two Adult Training Centers; one in Bayonne and one in Jersey City. They provide day programming for over 90 residents of the Hudson County community. Pre-vocational and activities of daily living skills are taught. These centers are places of individual expression, learning and creation. Each person can find ways to build relationships with peers while also increasing skills and interests which our innovative staff incorporate into the daily schedule. Programming is developed based on each person's interests, goals and needs. Our Adult Training Center curriculum emphasizes teaching about community based activities such as travel-training, street savvy/safety and working appropriately with others.

As always, our focus is on providing whatever assistance a person requires for participation in his/her community to the fullest level of their capabilities.

Putting our clients to work for you

A very practical aspect of this program is to provide our clients with a feeling of accomplishment for their efforts in real and quantitive ways. Our methods help not only them but potentially you by allowing you to take advantage of the practical, real-world services offered by our clients.

ARCworks for you

What we can do

Collating
Mailings
Packaging
Small assembly

Low competitive rates

Pick-up and Delivery

For price quotes or further information
Please call
Liz Sullivan
at 201-434-7783

ARCworks

The ARCworks component of the Jersey City ATC and the Bayonne ATC is a pre-vocational training curriculum for people who have clearly stated a desire to work in the community. The program provides a job-like environment and introduces participants to the world of work through job sampling, travel training, interview techniques, job seeking and application, and, most importantly, through work itself. ARCworks offers work activities such as collating, mailings, packaging, small assembly and shredding. We have cleaning crews that clean the centers as well as places in the community. We set up tables and chairs for BINGO night at a local church. Program members also operate Trunk Treasures, a used clothing store. It is hoped that these experiences become a springboard for individual placement with other community employers.

Performing ARCs

In collaboration with local performance artists, our program members incorporate dance, movement, singing and acting into creative productions. More importantly, they learn that imagination is fun and that each of us is worthy of esteem, both from self and others.

Saturday Recreation Program

This program serves 29 adult & youth clients for 40 Saturdays a year from 10am - 3:30pm. The program does not operate weeks in which there is an agency closing or any Saturday during an extended holiday weekend.

The SRP operates out of our Jersey City Adult Training Center (JCATC). The adult clients are drawn mostly, but not exclusively, from those we know through serving them in our day program. It is open to people who do not live in a group home, sponsor home, or a residential placement funded by the Division. The youth clients come from area Board of Education Special Services Departments.

Through a range of community and center based activities, the SRP's goals are to give the program participants a chance for increased community experiences and integration along with giving family members temporary relief from their direct care responsibilities.

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