OUR PROGRAMS
Internships - By networking with local businesses Ancora establishes paid internship positions for program participants. Do you have a business that would like to train and sponsor and provide a work space conducive to a sober lifestyle for some of our participants? Can you help us broaden the types of experiences our Participants can benefit from by providing new internship sites? If so, please contact us today!
Café and Bakery - We have opened, operate and manage a commercial bakery staffed by program participants for a 12-16-week period, which provides professional training that will help program participants gain proficiency in a myriad of employment skills including: cooking, baking, maintaining a sanitary work environment, delivery of catering, orders, customer service, and cash-handling.
Grounds Keeping – Provide opportunities for Participant to train and earn money learning to use hand tools, such as shovels, rakes, pruning saws, saws, hedge or brush trimmers.Water lawns, trees, or plants, using portable sprinkler systems, hoses, or watering cans. Prune or trim trees, shrubs, or hedges, using shears, and pruners.
Comprehensive Community Support Services – What are Comprehensive Community Support Services? Comprehensive Community Support Services are culturally sensitive service coordinated and provided to participants in their family necessary to promote their recovery. Comprehensive Community Support Services identify and address the barriers that impede the development of skills necessary for independent functioning in the eligible recipient's community, as well as strengths that may aid the participant and their families in the recovery or resiliency process.
Peer Support Services – What are Peer Support Services? The Peer Worker is an integral and highly valued member of the multi-disciplinary team. They provide formalized peer support and practical assistance to people who have or are receiving services to help regain control over their lives in their own unique recovery process. Through wisdom from their own lived experience, they inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible. Through a collaborative peer process, information sharing promotes choice, self-determination and opportunities for the fulfillment of socially valued roles and connection to their communities.