Skill, Training, and Rehabilitation Service
OUR MISSION
To provide services which will enhance the quality of life for persons with intellectual disabilities as well those who are aging and/or disabled through the promotion of each person’s independence, productivity, employment and integration into the community via socialization or employment.
What We Do
Providing In Home and Community Services For:
- The Intellectually Disabled
- The Developmentally Disabled
- The Physically Disabled
- The Aging
Disabled and Aging
Homemaker Services
This service is defined as general household activities and chores such as sweeping, mopping, dusting, changing linens, making beds, washing dishes doing personal laundry, ironing, mending, meal preparation, assistance with safe environment and errands such as grocery shopping and having prescriptions filled
Attendant Care
This service is provided to assist the enrollee with activities such as personal hygiene, making the bed washing linens or bedclothes and other activities that enable the enrollee to remain in the home, as an alternative to nursing facility care or for a waiver individual, we can provide necessary health and social services to help them remain in a non-institutional setting.
Personal care visits
Hands-on help with self-care tasks like getting out of bed, taking a bath, getting dressed, eating meals, or using the bathroom. If you need hands-on care, it may also include help with household chores or errands.
Adult Day Program
This service provides a supervised environment for folks to visit with friends and participate in various activities.
Respite
We provide services to an individual by staying with them so the family or caregiver can meet a planned or emergency need. These services will be provided in the individual’s home or in a STARS facility as indicated by need/funding.
Enabling Technology
In conjunction with DIDD Enabling Technology, STARS identifies the need and presents the availability of enabling technology devices that are geared to assist with the ability to live more independently
Community-Based Residential Alternatives
Places to live that offer care and support for someone who can no longer live alone
Vocational Rehabilitation
Job Placement
In this program we meet with a person, determine their interests and skills and begin a job search
Work Adjustment
We work with the individual on key work habits like attendance, behavior, dependability, staying on task, filling out applications and performing well in interviews.
Supported Employment
We work closely with the person to determine interests by taking them to different job sites in the community and giving them the chance to try different tasks in a real community job. Life time follow along is a possibility based on needs of the individual.
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Family Based Residential
Services are provided in a family home with family other than the family or origin. The family will provide supports that enable a person to enjoy a typical lifestyle at home and in the community.
Community Based
This program provides individuals access to and participation in activities and functions of community life that are desired and chosen by the general population. Transportation to and from these activities is provided as a component of community participation.
Supported Living
Provides tailored services and supports that enable a person to live in his or her own home. The type and intensity o support may vary widely depending upon the person’s unique wants needs and abilities.
Personal Assistance
individualized services and supports that enable the person to live in the community in a setting of their choice and which supports each person’s independence, rights, and full inclusion in the community; and ensures each person’s choice and rights.
HOW TO ENROLL
Call STARS, Inc. 423-309-8557
Administrative Team
Kimberly: 423-309-1082 | starsbledsoe@bledsoe.net
Brenda: 423-309-8557 | starsbrenda@bledsoe.net
Carla: 423-618-0513 | starscarla@bledsoe.net
Sonya: 423-618-5830 | starssonya@bledsoe.net
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Contact
(423) 447-2590
439 Allen Deakins Road
PO Box 673
Pikeville, TN. 37367
STARS, Inc. ensures compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; 49 CFR, part 21; related statutes and regulations to the end that no person shall be excluded from participation in or be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance from the U.S. Department of Transportation onthe grounds of race, color, or national origin.
STARS, Inc. garantiza el cumplimiento del Título VI de la Ley de Derechos Civiles de 1964; 49 CFR, parte 21; estatutos y reglamentos relacionados con el fin de que ninguna persona sea excluida de la participación o se le nieguen los beneficios de, o sea objeto de discriminación en cualquier programa o actividad que reciba asistencia financiera federal del Departamento de Follow the links below for additional resources
STARS Title VI Complaint Procedure STARS Discrimination Title VI Complaint Form
Any person who believes he or she has been discriminated against can file a complaint with the appropriate agency: Cualquier persona quien crea que ha sido discriminada puede presentar una queja ante la agencia correspondiente:
TN Department of Transportation
505 Dederick Street
Suite 1800,
James K. Polk Building
Nashville, TN 37243
888.370-3647
TN Human Rights Commission
William T. Snodgrass
Building TN Towers
312 Rosa Parks Avenue
23rd Floor
Nashville, TN 37243
800.251.3589
FHWA Office of Civil Rights
1200 New Jersey
Avenue, S.E.
8th Floor E81-314
Washington, DC 20S91
202-366-0693
FT A Office of Civil Rights
Title VI Coordinator
East Building, 5th Floor.
TCR, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, S.E.
Washington, DC 20590
888-446-4511
STARS, Inc, PO Box 67, 439 Allen P Deakins Road, Pikeville, TN 37367
Title VI Coordinator, Brenda Griffith |423-447-2590 | starsbledsoe@bledsoe.net : stars2001.com