Konocti Instructional Services - Clearlake
14560 Lakeshore Dr. Clearlake CA 95422
(707) 994-1560

Konocti Instructional Services/Clearlake is here to help you design your lifestyle in Clearlake. You can tell us what you think is important to you and we will work with you to make it happen. Joining KIS/Clearlake will also give you the opportunity to do great things in your community. It's an opportunity to make new friends or stay in touch with friends you already have. It's up to you!

You can design how you want your day to look. Spending time in the community could include choices
like:

• Personal Shopping
• Going to the library
• Eating lunch out with friends
• Grocery shopping for the hot lunch you want to make that day
• Going bowling
• Working on a grounds maintenance crew
• Working at the People Services Thrift Store
• Working at the People Services Thrift Store Annex helping us prepare donations for sale
• Ordering food from a menu in a restaurant
• Gaining new skills that could help you find a job

You may want to work on your worker skills as you consider joining the world of work. If you are choosing to enhance your work skills you can find work opportunities in paid and volunteer work. You can join the work adjustment program five days per week. When paid job openings are available you can work up to three days per week. The other two days you can enhance your skills by attending our worker training classes and/or volunteering for one of our volunteer sites where we help others and you can learn other work skills. Paid work training opportunities (up to three days a week) include:

• Learning work skills for grounds maintenance
• Learning work skills related to retail business
• Learning work skills for vending machine business
  

You can choose to work on interpersonal skills including:

• Sharing your ideas with others
• Learning how to disagree with someone and still have them as your friend
• Learning how to ask for help when you really need help
• Learning that it's o.k. to say "no" when that's what you really mean
  

Other skills that can help you at home include things
like:

• Learning to cook from a recipe
• Learning basic reading and writing skills
• Money skills that matter to you!
• Gardening (you can use some of your "home grown" vegetables in your cooking class)
• Learning to take care of your personal needs
• Basic computer skills
• Grooming and makeup tips
• Hair care and shaving
• Domestic skills like vacuuming

If you are interested in exploring your "artistic" side, we have a number of very exciting classes you will want to look into. KIS/Clearlake has a wonderful art gallery where you can show your artwork.

You can discover your creative side in any one of the following art classes:

• Painting with watercolors over a variety of subjects
• Landscape painting with acrylics
• Creative sewing classes
• Glass painting
• Wood Skills
• Sewing your own clothes

Not only will you learn to do things for yourself, but you will also have the opportunity to help others. You can volunteer and help out other people who will have a better day just because you made the choice to help.

Konocti Instructional Services is open Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Consumer training is provided 9 a.m. through 3 p.m.

Staff to Consumer ratio is 1:3. (One staff for every three consumers).

Konocti Instructional Services is a licensed Day Program (License # 176800009) through Community Care Licensing, the Department of Social Services.

Enhanced Service Options:

• Personal Assistant: If you are receiving services from one of our day programs and you require assistance with your personal care needs, support can be provided by a Personal Assistant. This is additional support for 1-6 hours per day based on need.
  
  
• Tutor: If you are receiving services from one of our day programs and you require focused behavioral assistance, additional support providing 1:1 staffing is available throughout your program day.

For more information please call the Program Director at (707) 994-1560