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We are so excited to open a boutique-style thrift shop in downtown Madison: Helene’s Thrifts & Gifts!

Our store at 16 Waverly Place will sell a wide assortment of everything from clothing and housewares to jewelry and small furniture. It also will create job training and employment opportunities for our adult clients.

We need the community’s help to stock our shelves! Please consider donating gently used, resalable items to sell in our shop. (See list below.)

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Last Spring, thinking about her daughter’s graduation filled Shirley Liu with anxiety. “We used to always worry about what would happen after high school,” she said. “Now, those worries are gone. Brooke has a more diversified life than high school!”

Brooke keeps an active schedule, even busier than in high school. She enjoys dance classes at the Y, attends a day program, works one day a week, and takes music therapy at home!

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She has offered support, quick responses, advice and resources to Janette Schultze-Mirabelli, whose daughter Natalie is on the autism spectrum. “It’s a pleasure to have someone in your corner like Andrea. She makes everything so smooth,” said Janette.

Andrea isn’t a close cousin or family member at all. She works as a Support Coordinator with Community Personnel Services (CPS), which is part of the network of services provided to individuals with special needs by the nonprofit ECLC of New Jersey.

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At ECLC of New Jersey, we prepare our students and adult clients to defy the odds! Nationally, only one in four adults with special needs is participating in the workforce. We do everything possible to ensure that all our students are prepared for work options, as appropriate.

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Jesse epitomizes the payoff all ECLC  students receive to prepare for life as an adult. A graduate of our Chatham school, this year Jesse is celebrating 19 years working part-time with the Township of Verona Community Services Department.

He is a client of Community Personnel Services and “loves his job!” supporting seniors as a medical transport dispatcher and pitching in with other calls about recreation.

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