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The SHA offers additional
services to assist individuals and families. The SHA believes strongly in
advocating for residents and helping them help themselves. Education, work
experience, and activities for youth and adults are some of the
opportunities available to SHA residents.
Below, you will see all
of the social services we provide our residents.
Careers and Job Skills
Opportunities to
improve job skills or in other ways advance in careers. Training and
continuing education are available through community partnerships.
Parenting & Youth
Help with parenting is
available through a number of initiatives targeted at families and youth.
These include:
- After School
Program:
One-on-one tutoring in any subject, at any grade level, in subject
areas identified by parents, schools and the children themselves.
Summer fun activities have also included movies, roller skating, mini-golf,
and Valley Fair. The After School Program meets at the Peter Rich
Community Center, 1201 N 8th Street, Monday through Thursday,
3:30-6:00 p.m. during the school year and Wednesdays during the summer
months.
- Recreation to
Reduce Risk:
The SHA offers scholarships to allow children to participate in
organized sports. Scholarships may be used for registration fees or to
purchase equipment.
Money
Management
The SHA offers
personalized help with managing individual or family finances. We offer
private consultations for budget counseling, or we can make referrals to
financial management companies.
Financial Independence
The Family
Self-Sufficiency program helps eligible families gain financial independence.
The program provides support and cooperation from community agencies.
Participants may earn an escrow savings account while they progress through
their goals.
PHDEP/Recreation to
Reduce Risk
We have assisted youth
in baseball and fast pitch, basketball, bowling, figure skating,
gymnastics, karate, swimming, pony football and soccer.
Adult services
- Office Skills
Training:
Partnering with Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College (WITC), we
offered basic office skills certificate course designed to teach
keyboarding, introduction to computers, Microsoft Word, word
processing, office procedures and secretarial grammar and punctuation.
We plan on offering other sessions in the future.
- Senior Trips: We have provided trips to
the casino, boat rides, and fall rides along the Lake Superior
shoreline.
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