While that mission is not changing, the process will soon look a little different.
Opportunities Inc. has been providing development and support services since 1966. Developmental Director Rebekah Drennon said their goal is to give their clients a full life in the community. They get to focus their passion into work, which is a lot of our clients dream. They really want to have a job and that s not offered that much to this population, said Drennon.
Only 15 percent of nearly 5 million developmentally disabled adults in the U.S. are employed.
Executive Director Sherry Young said they re in the process of moving from a sheltered workshop environment to a supportive workforce.
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Laurentian University fired dozens of professors and slashed its program offerings in an unprecedented round of cuts on Monday aimed at tackling the university’s insolvency.
The Sudbury school announced the elimination of 58 undergraduate and 11 graduate programs, which make up about a third of its course offerings.
It also laid off a large number of professors, at least 80, according to faculty members, or somewhere between a quarter and a third of full-time staff, although an official tally was not released by either the faculty union or the university.
Dunedin landowner blocks Ospri possum control work
12 Apr, 2021 11:30 PM
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Possum control work blocked. Video / ODT
Otago Daily Times
By: Molly Houseman
A Dunedin landowner has blocked Ospri staff from carrying out possum control on his land, claiming the company is harassing him and being a nuisance .
But the pest control company says it is allowed on the property and the work is critical to ensure a tuberculosis (Tb) outbreak is prevented in the area.
Police were called to Adrian Black s Sawyers Bay property about 9.30am after Ospri staff were confronted by Black and about 20 others who also opposed Ospri s work.
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