Human Support Services

December 2016

Each year Special Olympics draws competitors from throughout Illinois for an uplifting track and field competition in the summer and a bowling competition in the fall. Special Olympics is a much anticipated event for many of the adults with intellectual disabilities that participate in the HSS Adult Day Training Program or who reside in our...

One of our agency’s best known programs is our sheltered workshop for adults with disabilities. Operating as part of our Adult Day Services program, the workshop provides employment and vocational training to 50-60 adults every week from Monday through Friday. At the workshop our client workers are provided with the opportunity to earn a real...

The United Way of Greater St. Louis is in the midst of its 2016 fundraising campaign. Human Support Services has been a United Way-funded agency since 1985 and this year will receive $236,000 in funding to support our programs. United Way membership is critical to this organization because it means HSS has a dependable and...

Each year the President starts out the New Year off with a “State of the Union” address to the nation.  Likewise, the Governor makes a “State of the State” speech at the end of each January.  These speeches take stock of where we are as a nation or state and highlight the important issues that...