Louise Graham Regeneration Center

The Louise Graham Regeneration Center provides daily job skills training, work experience, employment and independent living skills for adults with developmental disabilities. Through the program, participants help contribute to their own care, work toward and prepare for self-sufficiency and become more integrated into the community at-large. In the adult day training component, participants learn life and work personal skills that help them become more independent, such as basic meal planning, shopping, cooking, making a bed, how to use phones and computers, how to keep a check register and cash paychecks, how to interact with others in the community and personal care skills such as grooming and hygiene.

The warehouse component provides job training and employment for adults with significant disabilities. All work is performed through a variety of real-world tasks in a light industrial environment that is conducted in an entrepreneurial business context where more than 85% of the labor is done by individuals with significant disabilities, all of whom are paid for the work they perform. Work includes (1) commercial secure document destruction, where 80,000 pounds of confidential documents are shredded monthly, (2) recycling 150 tons monthly of newspaper and cardboard, and (3) light assembly and packaging. Employees with disabilities operate all equipment including industrial-sized shredders and balers, forklifts and a front-end loader.