Career Development Centers

Career Development Centers

Admission Eligibility Criteria
Applicants for CDC services must be at least 18 years of age with a functional disability which interferes with activities of daily living (e.g.: feeding, talking, seeing, thinking, writing). Prospective CDC clients are expected to possess minimum abilities of self-care, control of bodily functions, emotional stability, ability to receive and give verbal or signed communication, and minimal functional locomotion.

Referral/Admissions
Individuals are referred to the CDC by county central point of coordination administrators. Tuition is provided by county boards of supervisors or private tuition.

Appropriate releases of records and information regarding a prospective client’s social and educational history, statement of functional limitations; and a physical, emotional and mental assessment are required prior to CDC evaluation.

After up to a 20-day evaluation at the respective CDC, there must be a reasonable possibility that the prospective CDC client will benefit from habilitation/maintenance services and that other more appropriate resources are not presently available. On an individual basis, CDC staff will determine if programming can be designed for those who function outside the current program parameters. Upon acceptance into the program, individual needs and progress, rather than calendar time frames, determine a person’s tenure at CDC.

At the CDC, admission is based upon available openings and funding. Individuals who are on a waiting list are considered in the following order:
  • date of application and meeting county point-of-entry screening for program eligibility
  • full-time needs take precedence over part-time, unless only part-time
  • prospective, eligible consumer whose legal county of settlement is the county of the CDP location
  • returning former CDP consumers from sheltered employment placement
  • individuals without current MR/DD services
  • individuals wishing to transfer from one CDP to another if a name comes to the top of the waiting list and the opening is turned down by the consumer, the name goes to the bottom of the waiting list
Referral Centers
Telephone numbers for county offices of the central point of coordination administrators are:
  • Marshall County 641-754-6391
  • Poweshiek County 641-623-2360
  • Tama County 641-484-4191
For more information, please contact Laura Schinnow, IVCCD Director of Alternative Education, at 641-752-4645 or 1-800-284-IVCE, ext. 5603 or email Laura.Schinnow@iavalley.edu .




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