What Is ABLE Industries?

Tulare County Training Center for the Handicapped (dba ABLE Industries) was established in 1962 in the City of Tulare by parents of individuals with disabilities who joined together to provide paid work and training opportunities for their adult children. The center opened with seven trainees. ABLE Industries now has a facility in Visalia employing over 200 workers. The agency serves disabled adults 18 and older.

ABLE Industries is a non-profit corporation funded by fees for services contacts, production revenue and donations. The agency is accredited through the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities which ensures that quality services and solid administrative and financial operations are maintained.

Rehabilitation—The Main Emphasis

The major focus of ABLE Industries programming is to provide opportunities for individuals to improve in vocational, social and interpersonal skills. Areas of program emphasis include but are not limited to, introduction to realistic work environments, improved stamina, increased productivity, enhanced workplace maturities, enhanced safe work practices, improved fine and gross motor skills, interpersonal skill development, and quality control.

How we achieve our purpose

Life Skills Learning Center

Organizational Employment

Community Employment

Using work as a rehabilitative tool, ABLE Industries provides its workers the opportunity to improve in vocational, social and interpersonal skills. ABLE creates a work environment as normal as possible for its trainees who are assigned various jobs depending on their level of skill. ABLE trainees receive wages based on productivity and are also entitled to benefits as part of the normalization process.

In addition to work activity, ABLE Industries provides vocational evaluation, work adjustment, supported employment and competitive placement services. As ABLE trainees make progress and show potential in the agency's work center, they are given the opportunity to obtain employment in the community.

 

For further information on our products and services email info@ableindustries.org