Nicil Northwestern Illinois Center

Located in Lanark, Ill., Rolling Hills Progress Center is a private, nonprofit agency that serves adults with disabilities who are of 16 years of age and above. Founded in 1975, it owns and operates various small businesses, including retail, dining and orchard operations, and imprinted novelty items, golf tees and accessory sales. The center offers various programs, such as developmental training, remunerative employment, education, counseling and skills development. It operates a food pantry and provides a variety of facilities and services, including transportation, a lunch program, financial assistance, participation in the Special Olympics, and planning and coordinating various field trips. The center also provides various golf products, educational puzzles, pencils, magic slates and novelty items.

Abilities Plus, founded in 1959, is a nonprofit charitable organization, providing health care services to children and adults with disabilities in Henry, Stark and Western Bureau counties in Illinois. The organization provides staff supervision to clients in need of residential support and operates three community integrated living arrangements in the city of Kewanee. It offers developmental training in the areas of self-help, fine and gross motor, communication, prevocational and social skills, as well as recreation, personal hygiene and community integration. Its job placement program imparts job seeking skills classes, vocational exploration, job coaching and assistance in securing employment. The organization teaches work skills to its clients under the work services training program by subcontracting with businesses and community organizations. Abilities Plus is a member of Illinois Association of Rehabilitation Services and is headquartered in Kewanee, Ill.

Horizon House of Illinois Valley is a nonprofit organization that provides a variety of services to adults with disabilities. Serving north central Illinois, it has two administrative facilities in Peru, Ill., and several homes in LaSalle and Bureau counties in Illinois. It provides a variety of residential and day services, including more than 15 community integrated living arrangements, where up to eight people live in a home and have the staff support they need, available 24-hours, seven-days a week. The institution also offers an intermittent support program, where people live with roommates or family members, and staff support is available, based on each person s needs. Its trained workers provide respite to families who have a person with disabilities living with them at home. Horizon House of Illinois Valley also provides assistance in building job skills and interview preparation for people with disabilities.