About Us
Our Community Connections Programs are nonprofit initiatives aimed at providing specialized social communication and behavioral support for adults with developmental disabilities, including autism spectrum disorder. Both programs prioritize helping individuals access navigate their communities.
Our Specialized Community Integration Skills program identifies community resources that foster inclusive social engagement, vocational training, and recreational, cultural, and educational opportunities, all supported by specially staff with a participant-to-staff ratio from 1:1 to 2:5.
Meanwhile, our Community Integration Recreational program offers enjoyable and inclusive recreational activities on weekday afternoons and Saturdays, maintaining the same high level of support. This enhanced support enables to engage with their communities in safe meaningful ways.
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide supported access to integrated opportunities for individuals with social, communication, and behavioral challenges. Leading by example, we promote independence and inclusion by developing a network of community partnerships and educating the community at large about true all-abilities inclusion.
In the Community
Our Specialized Community Integration Skills program empowers adults with autism to thrive by fostering independence and connection within the vibrant San Diego community.
Participants engage in a wide range of activities designed to build essential social and vocational skills. This includes volunteering at community outreach venues, practicing social skills in restaurants and cafes, and enhancing practical daily skills through shopping activities.
We also encourage active community participation by attending local festivals, sporting, and cultural events, learning to navigate public transportation, participating in integrated social recreational activities, exploring the outdoors and accessing unique San Diego experiences like museums, zoos, and amusement parks.
Get Involved
Community Connections Program believes in the power of community and invites you to join us in creating a more inclusive culture in San Diego!
Our Unique Impact
For Program Participants
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Increase experience and accessibility to community venues relevant to each participant and their individual life-circumstances, preferences, and developed skill sets.
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Obtain skills to navigate and manage anxiety-inducing situations, environments, and relationships more independently and successfully thereby reducing reliance on paid support services.​
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Increase situationally appropriate behavioral and social skill development, generalization, and maintenance that leads to the ability to participate in the least restrictive programs or settings in adult life.
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Increase ability to build and maintain organic supportive social relationships and networks.​
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Improve the prospects for living in the least restrictive environments, whether home or with peers, to the extent possible.​
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Maintain the skills that foster a community of life-long support systems to help increase the power of choice, maximize independence, and improve general quality of life.
For The Community
The Community Connections Program creates a unique and powerfully positive impact on not only the participant’s quality of life, but also naturally occurring community networks and venues.
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CCP's goal is to help reshape the way the community at large looks at developmental disabilities by providing businesses, organizations, and community leaders with practical real-world examples of how to meaningfully include individuals of all abilities in their culture.