If you are looking for Vocational Services for someone with a developmental disability, please visit our Resources Page.

 

LARC’s vocational services introduces the world of work to persons with developmental disabilities. Our "Service Pros" receive training in a variety of work settings including mobile work crews, packaging, collating, document shredding, etc. With the assistance of a job coach, individually placed clients receive on the job training. Individually placed clients learn to use public transit, open a savings account and improve their social and communication skills.

We are certified EDS (Employment Development Service) Contractors.

Expert Service in:

• Assembling             
• Packaging
• Collating
• Mail Outs
• Shredding                               
• Janitorial Services   
• Yard Work
• Community Job Placements

Community Based

"Service Pros" that are on mobile crews/enclaves perform janitorial work at state office buildings, area businesses, and churches; maintain lawns and grounds at the mall, state agencies, private businesses and residences; work in kitchens and housekeeping areas of hospitals and nursing homes; and staff two stores at Acadian Village, as well as tend the historic buildings there.  Whether crews stay at one location or move from site to site and whether they work days or evenings depends on the contract.  Crew members may earn minimum wage or more, or may earn piece-rate wages in the community only part of the day, to accommodate varying abilities, stamina, and personal preferences. 

Facility Based

The majority of our "Service Pros" earn their wages in our production workrooms.  Step inside one and you’ll find an efficient set-up familiar to anyone who has seen an assembly-line in action.  Workers do packaging for local businesses, seal restaurant and hospital flatware, stuff bulk-mail, shred confidential documents for state agencies and businesses throughout Acadiana, and recycle Mardi Gras beads for resale.  Production workers earn piece rate, meaning that they are paid for each step the complete, witch accommodates varying ability levels and fosters cooperation to get the job done.  While we regularly meet tight deadlines, each individual works at his or her own pace.

Transportation

Transportation is under vocational services and operates 240 days of the year.  LARC offers door to door pick up services for our clients who live at home or in their own apartment through Supervised Independent Living Services (SIL). 

LARC has 10 drivers and two active substitutes that all hold Class D Chauffeurs licenses along with various training certificates including defensive driving, CPR and First Aid. 

We have seven vans with 12 seats while fitting two wheelchairs.  We have two vans that have 14 seats, and we have one van with nine seats.  LARC has 10 routes which covers approximately 700 miles each day of service.

Vocational Services is closed:

Good Friday
April 2, 2010
Independence Day
July 4-9, 2010
Labor Day
September 6, 2010
Thanksgiving Day
November 25 & 26, 2010
December 23-31, 2010

Vocational Services Admissions:

If you have already visited OCDD and have a Case Management Agency, and LARC provides the Vocational Services you wish, you may complete the admissions form below.

Please print & complete the application and contact LARC Vocational Services at 337-989-1803 for an appointment.:

Vocational Services Admissions Form