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Opportunity Center-Easter Seal offers community rehabilitation programs, and is a training and employment resource located in Anniston, Ala. It is owned and operated by the Alabama Easter Seal Society. The center offers services for disabled individuals to develop personally and vocationally and to learn skills and work habits necessary to obtain and maintain competitive employment. Opportunity Center-Easter Seal offers services to the residents of Calhoun, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa, Randolph, and Talladega counties. The services offered by the center include vocational evaluation and situational assessment, career exploration, and pre-employment testing. It also offers employability development, including work and personal adjustment training, mobile adjustment, and job readiness classes. The center provides personal development training, counseling support groups, computer training and forklift training.

The Arc of Central Alabama is dedicated to serving individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and their families through a variety of comprehensive programs, advocacy efforts, and educational initiatives. Their mission is to empower those affected by IDD to reach their fullest potential and lead independent lives. Offering services that include community day programs, residential support, employment training, early intervention therapy, and active advocacy, The Arc strives to create a supportive environment for individuals with IDD. Through their commitment to quality programming and community engagement, they aim to turn disabilities into possibilities. Generated from the website

Founded in 1974, The Bridge provides substance abuse treatment and behavioral rehabilitation programs for adolescents. It currently operates more than 10 programs that provide residential and outpatient treatment for substance abuse; residential behavioral rehabilitation; and residential treatment for clients with co-occurring substance abuse and mental illness disorders. Its About-Face program is a highly structured therapeutic growth program for female teenagers. The organization s programs also include REACH, a 30-plus-bed residential substance abuse treatment program for males that offers individual, group and family counseling services. Its programs are licensed and certified by the Alabama Department of Youth Services and the Alabama Department of Mental Health Division of Substance Abuse Services. The Bridge is located in Gadsden, Ala.