Community Day Services
Community Day Services include purposeful and meaningful activities and are designed to help get skills, teach appropriate behavior and give more independence and personal choice. Programs include daily living skills instruction, community outings, vocational training, employment opportunities and recreation.
Jen's Story
Community Day Services prepare adults 18 years of age or older who have an intellectual disability to live and function in integrated social settings. Community Day Services serve adults with intellectual disabilities and major functional skill deficits to promote independence in daily living and economic self-sufficiency.
The Adult Services Mission has achieved accreditation through CARF.
Enroll in Community Day Services
Community Day Services are offered to adults who have a developmental or intellectual disability who live in residential settings as well as by themselves or with family.
The current LLGI Community Day Services are set in the Goodwill retail store located at 2001 Wabash Ave, Springfield, IL.
Community Day Services are open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. The program is closed most major holidays.
To be enrolled in the program the individual must be approved for Community Day Services funding through the Medicaid Waiver Program.
Participants in Community Day Services are referred to Goodwill by CISA (Central Illinois Service Access). Please contact CISA and they will complete an interview process to determine if you meet the entrance criteria for participation in Community Day Services. If it is determined that you qualify, CISA will refer you to Land of Lincoln Goodwill Industries.
Will's Story
Get Started
The first and most important step you and your family can take to get help is to register with the Prioritization of Urgency of Need for Services (PUNS) database, the waiting list.
To register, you must meet with an Independent Service Coordination Agency (ISC) for pre-admission screening to see if you are eligible for services.
The ISC for the LLGI region is CISA (Central Illinois Service Access). It is a statewide database that records information about individuals with intellectual disabilities who are potentially in need of services now or within the next five-years. The State uses the data for three main purposes:
- to select individuals for services as funding becomes available,
- to develop proposals and materials for the State’s annual budgeting process, and
- to plan for future needs.
