What We Do
Programs and Services
Coastal Support Services (CSS) - At least 50% of all PFI consumers live independently. To help support these individuals to be as self sufficient as possible , CSS provides these individuals a supported living service. The Coastal Support team works with the clients and their circle-of-support teams to create a plan to best serve each person's "important-to and important-for" goals and needs. "Important-to" examples include budgeting, shopping, enhancing social skills - even going on a dream vacation. "Important-for" supports usually center around medical/dental needs and living safely in the community.
The Community Connection - The Community Connection is a State Licensed Day Activity program offering individuals with severe disabilities the opportunity to participate in everyday community life. Located in a convenient downtown location, clients have everyday access to the park, recreation center, restaurants, Mendocino College, stores - you name it. Every opportunity is made to encourage participants to increase their social contacts and form lasting relationships with other community members. Barriers to and supports for mobility and medical fragility are addressed in order to minimize these and promote an individual’s desire to develop a quality life and enjoy meaningful, fulfilling days.
The Job Connection - The Job Connection is a CARF-accredited program and serves individuals with with all types of disabilities and also supports their employers. The support provided is goal oriented, and based on a plan that the consumer generates. This plan (The Individual Habilitation Service Plan) is updated semi-annually and outlines how the consumer would like to see his or her career develop through identifying long-term and short-term goals.
Learning Independence From Experience or L.I.F.E. on the Coast - L.I.F.E. on the Coast is a community-based service that is tailored to an individual’s needs involving work and non-work related activities. All services are provided in natural environments where activities typically occur for non-disabled people. Participants in this service must be 18 years of age and older and may include those in their last year of high school. Participants are encouraged and supported to choose their own job development and other activities based on their own dreams, needs, and goals.
Places To Go - The Places To Go program is designed to promote the independence of each person by allowing them to experience different types of recreation and thereby discover the unique needs, wants and talents that define individualism in all of us. The program is open to all individuals referred from the Regional Center, and also serves transitional individuals from the Transitional Learning Center and High School at the discretion of the Regional Center, which helps to further the goal of “seamless transition” from school to adult services as well, introducing younger individuals to more diverse age groups and an adult service organization. Integrating High School and Transition age students is a way to educate them in the social arena, which most often happens after school hours, to help them to enjoy healthy and active social lives. The hours and days of the week the program operates within are completely dependent upon choices made by the individual.
Businesses
Paul Bunyan Thrift Shop and Furniture Annex - For over sixty years, the Paul Bunyan Thrift Shop and Furniture Annex has been a reliable used-goods retail business in the city of Fort Bragg, California. The store sells affordable recycled clothing, media, and furnishings to our coastal community. We facilitate a paid work experience outside of a sheltered environment, and raise important funds for Parents & Friends, Inc. The Paul Bunyan Thrift Shop is located at 350 S. Main Street in Fort Bragg and is open from 10 am to 5:30 pm, Monday through Saturday, and on Sundays from 10 am until 4:00 pm. For information call Grace Cochran at 707.964.4471 (shop) or 964.8542 (office).
Coastal Support Services (CSS) - At least 50% of all PFI consumers live independently. To help support these individuals to be as self sufficient as possible , CSS provides these individuals a supported living service. The Coastal Support team works with the clients and their circle-of-support teams to create a plan to best serve each person's "important-to and important-for" goals and needs. "Important-to" examples include budgeting, shopping, enhancing social skills - even going on a dream vacation. "Important-for" supports usually center around medical/dental needs and living safely in the community.
The Community Connection - The Community Connection is a State Licensed Day Activity program offering individuals with severe disabilities the opportunity to participate in everyday community life. Located in a convenient downtown location, clients have everyday access to the park, recreation center, restaurants, Mendocino College, stores - you name it. Every opportunity is made to encourage participants to increase their social contacts and form lasting relationships with other community members. Barriers to and supports for mobility and medical fragility are addressed in order to minimize these and promote an individual’s desire to develop a quality life and enjoy meaningful, fulfilling days.
The Job Connection - The Job Connection is a CARF-accredited program and serves individuals with with all types of disabilities and also supports their employers. The support provided is goal oriented, and based on a plan that the consumer generates. This plan (The Individual Habilitation Service Plan) is updated semi-annually and outlines how the consumer would like to see his or her career develop through identifying long-term and short-term goals.
Learning Independence From Experience or L.I.F.E. on the Coast - L.I.F.E. on the Coast is a community-based service that is tailored to an individual’s needs involving work and non-work related activities. All services are provided in natural environments where activities typically occur for non-disabled people. Participants in this service must be 18 years of age and older and may include those in their last year of high school. Participants are encouraged and supported to choose their own job development and other activities based on their own dreams, needs, and goals.
Places To Go - The Places To Go program is designed to promote the independence of each person by allowing them to experience different types of recreation and thereby discover the unique needs, wants and talents that define individualism in all of us. The program is open to all individuals referred from the Regional Center, and also serves transitional individuals from the Transitional Learning Center and High School at the discretion of the Regional Center, which helps to further the goal of “seamless transition” from school to adult services as well, introducing younger individuals to more diverse age groups and an adult service organization. Integrating High School and Transition age students is a way to educate them in the social arena, which most often happens after school hours, to help them to enjoy healthy and active social lives. The hours and days of the week the program operates within are completely dependent upon choices made by the individual.
Businesses
Paul Bunyan Thrift Shop and Furniture Annex - For over sixty years, the Paul Bunyan Thrift Shop and Furniture Annex has been a reliable used-goods retail business in the city of Fort Bragg, California. The store sells affordable recycled clothing, media, and furnishings to our coastal community. We facilitate a paid work experience outside of a sheltered environment, and raise important funds for Parents & Friends, Inc. The Paul Bunyan Thrift Shop is located at 350 S. Main Street in Fort Bragg and is open from 10 am to 5:30 pm, Monday through Saturday, and on Sundays from 10 am until 4:00 pm. For information call Grace Cochran at 707.964.4471 (shop) or 964.8542 (office).
