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Rise, Incorporated City of Ramsey Community Development Block Grant Funding Request 1998 Goals and Programs Rise is a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation established in 1971 to support people with disabilities in attaining their personal measure of vocational achievement, self-sufficiency, and belonging in their communities. Rise is dedicated to building a community which is more accepting of its citizens. Rise supports the development of creative partnerships with businesses, governmental agencies, and the general public, to meet this objective. Rise provides job training, employment, transitional housing, and supported living services to persons with mental, physical, developmental, emotional, learning, and mental health disabilities, who are unemployed, underemployed, and dependent upon public sector support. In 1996 Rise served a total of 1,846 persons: 946 (55 percent) of Rise clients were Anoka County residents, 534 (29 percent) Hennepin County residents, i91 (10 percent) Ramsey County residents, 53 (3 percent) Chisago County residents, and 122 (7 percent) other counties. Requests for Rise services continue to increase as do the severity of the disabilities of the persons Rise provides services to. In the last several years Rise has developed new programs for individuals with traumatic brain injuries, persons with severe/profound disabilities from the Faribault Regional Treatment Center, students with severe emotional disabilities in the Anoka- Hennepin School District, people with disabilities who are seeking competitive job placements in our Projects with Industry (PWI) program, people who are deaf or hard of hearing in our Minnesota Employment Center 0ViEC) program, people who have both mental illness and developmental disabilities, and a career development/employment program for members of minority groups. Because of this growth, more than 900 persons participated in Rise programs on a daily basis last year. Project Descriptior~ Anoka CIP is a newly developed day training and habilitation program (DTH) specifically designed for people with severe disabilities who require more intensive programming and a higher level of staff'mg. The building housing this program is located in the Anoka Enterprise Park and is under construction presently. We anticipate it to be completed and ready for occupancy February 1998. The program was developed in response to a request from Anoka County to help meet the needs in the county to serve people, particularly upcoming graduates in the Anoka-Hennepin Schools with more significant disabilities over the next five years. Anoka CIP will provide job training and placement, therapy services, and vocational skills. It will increase participants' relationships with peers, self-sufficiency through earned wages, increase self-esteem, personal choice-making, and participation in community integration activities.