11/22/2025
The amazing Kirkwood - Iowa County Center has set up the giving tree again for us this year! We have made a list of things that we could use and if you would like to help out our program it would be greatly appreciated!!
It's that time of year again! We have our REA Giving Tree up! You can stop down between 7:30am-4:00pm to grab a gingerbread person off the tree. We request that all gifts be wrapped and returned by Tuesday, December 16th. If you aren't able to make it in, feel free to contact us for a list of requested items. As always, thank you for the continued support of such a worthy organization!
REA is a non-profit agency that provides services to adults with disabilities in Iowa County and surrounding areas.
REA Mission Statement:
To empower each person to identify possibilities, develop realization of self-worth, become advocates for themselves, and achieve their dreams.
REA Vision:
To inspire adults with disabilities in reaching their goals in life
REA Values:
-Empowerment
-Respect
-Individualized Services
- Relationship Building
-Compassion
- Promoting Self-Sufficiency
Purpose of Services at REA:
REA, Inc. offers Day Habilitation services designed to assist you to:
-use the person-centered planning process to choose activities and opportunities that include your preferences, choices, and enhance your abilities.
-develop good communication and social skills
-be an active and contributing member of the community
-become more self-sufficient
Program: Day Habilitation –Community Integration
REA’s Day Habilitation program focuses on Community Integration. Community Integrations is designed to assist individuals in optimizing their personal, social, and vocational competency to live successfully in the community.
Persons served are active partners in determining the activities they desire to participate in. Therefore, the settings may be informal to reduce barriers between REA staff and persons served.
Community integration provides opportunities for the community participation of persons served. A person may participate in a variety of community life experiences or interactions that may include:
• Leisure or recreational activities
• Communication activities
• Spiritual activities
• Cultural activities
• Vocational pursuits
• Volunteerism in the community
• Educational and training activities
• Development of living skills
• Health and wellness promotion
• Orientation, mobility and destination training
• Interacting with volunteers from the community in program activities
• Community collaborations and social connections developed by the program (partnerships with community entities such as senior centers and art councils, etc.)
Desired outcomes of Day habilitation programming include:
• Community participation
• Increased independence
• Increased interdependence
• Greater quality of life
• Skill development
• Slowing of decline associate with aging
• Volunteer placement
• Center-based socialization during the day that enables individual to remain in community residences.
• Activity alternatives to avoid or reduce time in more restrictive environments (examples: hospitalization or nursing home care)
• Movement to employment
