Client Community Services, Inc.

Client Community Services, Inc. is a home health care organization in Worthington, MN, serving adults with disabilities across Southwestern Minnesota and into Iowa. Founded in 1955, the not-for-profit provides personalized support services intended to promote dignity, independence, and community inclusion. Its programs include Supported Living Services, In-Home Family Support, Respite Care, Semi-Independent Living Services, Independent Support Services, and Intermediate Care Facility care, with services tailored to each individual's support plan. The organization traces its roots to a group of Southwestern Minnesota residents who organized the SW Minnesota Crippled Children's School, Inc. in 1955. Over the following decades, the organization expanded steadily: the Achievement Center opened in 1967, McMillan Home opened in 1974 on McMillan Street, services began as an ICF/MR facility in 1975, Semi-Independent Living Services launched in 1982, Windsor Apartments opened in 1983, and Community Living Alternatives (CCSI's waivered service program) also began in 1983. Services extended to Windom in 1987 and into Sibley, Iowa in 1988, with Luverne waivered services added in 1990. The corporation adopted the name Client Community Services, Inc. in 1990. In 2001, CCSI constructed its first new handicapped-accessible home at 1005 E. Ninth Avenue, and in 2006 the corporate offices moved to downtown Worthington. Iowa residential services are certified under Iowa's Home and Community Based Services for individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (HCBS/ID). CCSI participates in the annual Worthington Windsurfing Regatta by providing children's games and face painting at Sailboard beach, held the second weekend of June each year. The corporate office is staffed by Executive Director Jeri Schettler, along with directors and support staff listed on the organization's directory. The office sits on 5th Avenue in downtown Worthington, across from Lake Front Park and roughly a quarter mile from Worthington City Hall, Sanford Worthington Medical Center, and the Worthington Post Office. The Nobles County Library is about a third of a mile away. After seventy years of continuous service, CCSI remains a long-established human services organization in the region, providing disability services from the same southwestern Minnesota community where it began.