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Founded in 1972, the Rochelle Center serves individuals with developmental disabilities. It provides support services for senior citizens with memory loss. The center also offers pre-vocational and work skills training solutions. The Rochelle Center provides residential, drop-in and in-home respite care services. In addition, it offers developmental support programs, as well as recreation therapy, social role validation and community integration services. The company has working relationships with various companies, including Music City Metals, Gish Sherwood and Schurman Fine Papers. The Rochelle Center also operates a production center that provides order fulfillment, shipping, cleaning, shrink-wrapping and labeling services. It organizes work and socialization skill reinforcement activities for senior citizens. The Rochelle Center is approved by the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency.

For more than 50 years, First Step Inc. has been a child care service group that serves children with special needs in the Nashville community. Based in Nashville, Tenn., the clinic operates a Child Development Center offering interventions and educational services for children with severe medical conditions. Its services include child-specific care, on-site nursing, early literacy programming, including a Community Outreach Program and The Ayudando Ninos Program. The organization's program serves more than 125 children with special needs and its families. Additionally, it focuses on offering learning program for children ranging from six weeks up to five years old with emphasis on individual development.