A family dynamic

At the Eden Prairie Community Center you will find Ashley, Barb, Keith, Jim, Ted, Ryan, TJ, Lauren and their job coach MaryAnn. This group is a family, each associate has taken on their own role to support one another; you have the mother hen, the nurturer, the...

Creating together

It’s just before noon and students prepare to start class with the Minnetonka Center for the Arts instructor. Many have been at their jobs all morning and are looking forward to a break and some creativity to recharge after work. These adults are attending art classes...

Employers embrace disability hiring

CHICAGO — Seyfarth Shaw, one of the city’s largest law firms, occupies nine floors of a skyscraper at 131 S. Dearborn St. Shalonda Sanders is responsible for picking up and delivering packages on each of them, plus keeping certain areas clean. It is a job she...

Meet Mary Ann

Meet Mary Ann, eQuality Job CoachMary Ann Hoffelt is thrilled to be a member of the eQuality team. She joined eQuality in March 2013 as a job coach at the Eden Prairie Community Center. She is a graduate from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls with a Bachelor of...

eQuality rocks out!

Many of our groups have enjoyed music therapy over the past few years.Today our EPCC group had the opportunity to rock out on the drums while learning rhythm. Look out for a hot new anthem to be released this summer by the group. They hand wrote a song and are now...

Meet Andrew

Andrew started with eQuality in 2010 and is currently employed with eQuality’s United Hardware site. Andrew is a very kind hearted, hard working person, who is loved by all of the staff at United Hardware. When I sat down with Andrew to interview him for this article...