Masquerade Prom!

MTILP Inc. Mobility Training and Independent Living Programs

Fun times with our

Spring/Summer

2016

101 Nob Hill Rd

Madison, WI 53713

mtilp.net

Executive Director

Joan Fischer

608-288-0603

President

Andrea Hayes

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This years prom was the best yet with over 24 volunteers including a DJ, photographer, decorator and plenty of prom “dates” for clients. A special thanks to our 2 volunteer groups from Mad DE and Humana who provided half of our volunteers. Also a huge

thank you to Jeffery Payne for the beautiful photos he took of our clients.

Doug the DJ did a wonderful job!

Thank you Mad DE volunteer group!

PROM 2016

VSA (Very Special Arts) artist Leslie Iwai led a 10 week art program

for clients and staff at our day program. It was amazing!

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Badger Volunteers MTILP had a spring partnership with 2 Badger Volunteer groups. The 4 person team

went on trips with clients to Badger Bowl, the Madison Children’s Museum, the Madi-

son Contemporary Art Museum and other locations. The 8 person team partnered with

clients during our VSA program, which made for an even better VSA experience. Thank

you to all our volunteers and the Badger Volunteer program at UW-Madison.

Community Integration BV Group VSA BV Group

Thank you to our

photographer Jeff

Payne for graciously

volunteering to take

client photos for the

prom.

MTILP staff also solicited for prom dresses and dress shirts and received

enough donations to have a prom shopping day where all clients picked

out an outfit.

Very Special Arts 2016

MTILP staff, friends and family vol-

unteered at the On Tap Beer Festival

to fundraise for program items.

Loretta has been an employee of MTILP since 2007. She recently took on a new role as Skills Trainer / C.N.A. after a newly created position opened up. It has been very helpful to our day program as our clientele is changing and needing more cares. Loretta has been doing a wonderful job so far in the Skills Trainer role where she uti-lizes her musical talents. It has been great to see Loretta blossom in her new position.

This May Loretta married the love of her life on his family farm in Blue Mounds. She has 2 chil-dren and 6 grandchildren. One of her daughters lives here in Madison and the other in Florida. She enjoys music, spending time with family and living out in the country.

MTILP, Inc. Employee Spotlight

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Loretta Reaves

Frank Scheel

Over 40 MTILP staff, friends,

family and day program volun-

teers participated in the

CrazyLegs classic fundraiser

where we served beer and took

care of runner bags.

SWO Consumer Spotlight

Frank has been supported by Successful Work

Options for 15 years. For the last 5 years, he

has been employed at our facility based day

program doing dishes, laundry and other

maintenance jobs. He seems to enjoy his

work very much. Recently Frank has been

working hard on learning new tasks, such as

putting out buckets and lunches for our day

program clients and learning to match names

and colors for this job. Frank is a most help-

ful person and it is a pleasure to have him at

our day program location.

Thank you to everyone who

volunteered and raised money

for the Harry Fischer

Scholarship .

MTILP Scholarship Award Day

On June 14th, three children of

MTILP staff were awarded $500

scholarships for their college

pursuits. Malia Simmons’ daughter

Auhea Simmons, Shane Fischer’s

daughter Ashlen Fischer and Cindy

Anderson’s daughter Lydia

Anderson were awarded the Harry

A. Fischer Memorial Scholarship.

Joan’s Thoughts

On Wednesday May 18th Shane Fischer and I had the honor of pre-senting the Harry Fischer Memorial Scholarship to three graduating seniors from Evansville High School. Harry’s passion and dedication to helping young people was evident to those who knew and worked with him, and the scholarship is a continuation of the values he held. In addition to the EHS recipients, the scholarship is also offered to graduating chil-dren and grandchildren of MTILP, Inc. employees, and we have three this year! I especially want to thank our friends and employees that have volunteered at fundraisers throughout the year to support the scholarship. There are not enough words to express my gratitude. "Discover who you truly are and fully give every

aspect of your uniqueness to the world. This is your

path to an extraordinary life." ~ Unknown author

MTILP, Inc.

Mobility Training and Independent

Living Program, Inc. is a private, non-

profit corporation with 501 (c) (3)

status. MTILP, Inc. has been providing

quality services to adults with develop-

mental disabilities in Dane County since

1995.

• Our mission is to improve the quality

of life for individuals with disabilities by

providing the support and training

necessary for each person to work and

participate in the community and live as

independently as possible.

• MTILP, Inc. provides combined long-

term supports of daily living skills

training, mobility training, vocational

training and job placement for over 100

adults with disabilities in Dane County.

These services are offered through

supported employment, mobility train-

ing, home support and facility based

programs.

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MTILP, Inc.

101 Nob Hill Rd

Madison, WI 53713

Phone: 608-288-0641

Fax: 608-237-2030

E-mail: joan@mtilp.net

“Building Bridges to Independence”

Joan Fischer Executive Director

2016 Scholarship recipients: Johanna

Stephenson, Hayley Krause, Ashlen

Fischer & (not pictured) Lydia

Anderson and Auhea Simmons.