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EP!C’s Community Day Services

Program’s goal is to ensure each participant enjoys a productive, enjoyable day while building skills to enrich their lives. This is done through a variety of options:

Life Skills Education

To build social, cooking, community access, home access, hygiene, daily living, and independent living skills. Education is tailored to each individual’s needs and ranges from basic to more advanced skill levels.

Vocational/Work Skills Training

For those who would like to have a job someday. Individuals work on following one to two step instructions, matching, sorting, labeling, mailing tasks, attention to task and other work skills to prepare them for paid employment.

Small Employment Opportunities

Cleaning Crew

Dish Washing

Filing & Shredding

Health and Wellness Education

Includes fitness and exercise opportunities, nutrition education, and information about healthy relationships with ourselves and others.

Community Engagement

Including programming by other agencies brought to EP!C, community volunteers spending time at EP!C, events and activities in the community, and opportunities for people we support to volunteer in the community.

EP!Casso

Offers art and business of art classes. Individuals can sign up for regular classes and practice art forms such as painting, sculpting, and printmaking. Any art completed during the classes will be put up for sale in the community and artists will receive a commission for any of their art that is sold.

EP!C Hub

Provides opportunities to use adaptive equipment and staff support to access technology.

For more information regarding Educational Services contact Crystal Weeks Wright, Director of Educational Services, 309.689.3612 or cweekswright@epicci.org

For more information on having EP!C individuals volunteer for your organization please contact Angie Frailey, Activity Coordinator at (309) 689-3705 or afrailey@epicci.org.

EP!C Experiences

Tom, my brother, has been provided services by EP!C for well over 65 years and he loves coming here. My responsibility is to keep this organization going, so people like Tom, have everything that they need in order to be productive individuals in the community and this place does that. Come and visit, get a tour, and you'll see how special this place is. If you haven't been involved, get involved.

Ed Manley

Empowering people to live an EP!C life!

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Why I Give – Meet Ed Manley and his brother, Tom.

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