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Welcome to Elm
City Center!
Providing
services to people with disabilities since 1959
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A Community
Based Agency Providing Work, Vocational, Residential and Social Services |
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- We help people with
disabilities be independent and live in the community.
- We serve over 200 people a day.
- We have over 100,000 square feet of production space with 9 docks
and over $500,000 of shrink-wrap packaging equipment. Our customers are in
retail stores through out North America. We can provide
specialized packaging in almost any volume.
- We have offer certified confidential shredding for documents.
- We have residential programs throughout Jacksonville.
- We have been nationally
accredited by CARF since 1972.
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Our Winter 2007
Newsletter is right here. Get some of our recent news and
current events. You will need the Adobe Reader to see the
newsletter. Just download the Reader from the menu on the left. Here
are some of our headlines:
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Elm City Starts AKtion Club with Jacksonville Kiwanis Club.
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Jacksonville hit by Huge Ice Storm. - Many broken
trees throughout town and we close for 2 days.
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Our Tree at the Woodhaven Festival of Trees is successful.
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It was Thanksgiving and we fed 200 people right here at ECC.
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Our Building Plans move on.
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State Funding - No agreements between Governor and General Assembly.
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Governor’s
Vetoes Reverse Increases for Community Services During FY 2007 Budget
Vetoes - Governor Implies
Community Services Are “Non-Essential”-
Last week, the Governor said he would cut “pork” and other “non-essential”
spending from the budget that passed both the House and Senate. The
Governor’s veto on August 23, 2007 was purely political, aimed directly at
Speaker Madigan to attempt to bring him back to the table to negotiate a
budget that includes healthcare expansion and likely a capital program. We
believe the Governor is using organizations that represent people and
issues affected by his vetoes to put pressure on Speaker Madigan. For the
Governor to force our involvement by vetoing services important to us, he
has done the unthinkable and directly implied that community services are
not essential services.
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ECC AWARDED 3 YEAR CARF
ACCREDITATION - We received formal notice on August 21, 2007 that
Elm City was given a three year accreditation. This is as high as the
awards can be given. We have been nationally accredited by CARF since
1972. A complete copy of our report is available
here. You will need
the Adobe Reader to view these documents. A link is available While the
Division of Developmental Disabilities no longer requires CARF, The
Division of Mental Health and Division of Vocational Rehabilitation both
do.
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The
IARF FY 2008 - 2011 Gubernatorial Platform
Illinois
Association of Rehabilitation Facilities (IARF) is calling
on the Governor to adopt this Illinois agenda that will
provide the needed supports and services to assure equal opportunity for
persons with disabilities and mental illness to live, learn, work, and
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Play for All Parks
is open Get the background on this 100% accessible playground
in South Jacksonville at Godfrey Park.
The groundbreaking was on October 13, 2006. Grand Opening was on May 19,
2007. About 200 people attended. The play equipment was packed and then the
water was turned on for the splash pad. The park has been very packed
everyday
since then.
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