Job Training & Sheltered Employment:

Ka Lima provides job training in Grounds Maintenance and Custodial Services for disabled and or disadvantaged adults. Through contracts with the County of Maui, among others, Ka Lima provides grounds maintenance and custodial services for Central and South Maui Parks. Our clients are provided supervised training on equipment and procedures learning valulable work and social skills. Some consumers use our work centers strickly for training while others chose it as future employment.

Medicaid Waiver:

The Medicaid Waiver Program matches severely disabled clients with a personal assistant who provides them with a range of skills from basic grooming, cooking classes, gardening skills, to fun social activities. This program gets the client out of the house and into a healthy social environment allowing them to learn adult living skills determined by an individual plan..

Job Placement Programs through

Department of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR):

Adults with severe disabilities are referred to us from the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation. These consumers are provided assistance with job readiness assessment, evaluation and training, job search, placement and coaching and finally long-term support. Most of these job placements are made out in the community.

Ticket to Work Program

Ka Lima O Maui is an Employment Networks (ENs) provider and part of a new universe of organizations designed to provide services under the Ticket to Work program.

The Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program is an employment program for people with disabilities who are interested in going to work. The Ticket to Work Program is part of the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 – legislation designed to remove many of the barriers that previously influenced people's decisions about going to work because of the concerns over losing health care coverage. The goal of the Ticket to Work Program is to increase opportunities and choices for Social Security disability beneficiaries to obtain employment, vocational rehabilitation, and other support services from public and private providers, employers, and other organizations.

Under the Ticket to Work Program, the Social Security Administration provides disability beneficiaries with a Ticket ( [Click here]   to see an image of a Ticket) they may use to obtain the services and jobs they need from organizations called Employment Networks (ENs).