Peak Community Services

http://www.peakcommunity.com/

Peak Community Services (PCS) provides opportunities for individuals to develop life skills that enable them to live as independently as possible and to become contributing members of the community.

In 1955, three women in Pulaski County started a program to provide their special-needs children the opportunity to learn and develop skills. The 18th such program in Indiana was quite progressive for a rural community. The first class, held in the basement of the First Christian Church in Winamac, had 16 students; by 1965, 88 children from Jasper, Starke, Fulton, and Pulaski Counties were attending what had come to be known as the ‘Aurora School’, now located in the former Riley School. Many of the early students were becoming adults by this time, so a Habilitation Center was started at 112 West Main Street for these adults to learn job skills.

In 1988, the Pulaski County agency contracted with Woodlawn Center, in Logansport, for administrative services, and eventually, the two agencies merged to become PCS, which now has two facilities, one in Logansport and one in Winamac, and six group homes, two in Winamac and four in Logansport.

Services Offered

• Employment Services, teaching concepts such as compliance, attendance, task completion, problem-solving, and safety
• PCS Industries Services provides Employment Services training in a facility-based program and offers compensation for completed work or other occupational activity, such as light industrial assembly, inspection, and packaging services
• Habilitation Services, including supervision, monitoring, training, education, demonstration, or support to assist with the acquisition of skills, either in the community or in a Peak facility, and either one-on-one or in a small group
• Community Living Services provides support designed to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of an individual living successfully in his own residence
• Supervised Group Living, providing support and training for persons who meet State Medicaid Level of Care requirements and have program needs that require 24-hour supervision and intensive active treatment to live in the least restrictive environment possible
• Family Support Services provides an opportunity for individuals to become more independent in their primary caregivers’ homes or at other community locations, focusing on preventing or slowing the regression of skills already learned
• Respite Services, provides one-on-one support, including daily living skills, grooming and hygiene, meal preparation, and general supervision, in primary caregivers’ homes or other community locations, and intended to ease caregivers’ burdens