What can Challenge Do for You?
- Vocational assessments – standardized and situational
- Groups for Job Seekers
- On the job try-outs at local employers or at our enclaves
- Job development & job search skills & activities
- Job Coaching/Training
- Vocational Counseling
- Work Skill Building
- Access to Life Options programs
- Daily Advisement and Support
All Participant Services are structured with the end goal of the greatest vocational independence possible, and increased community inclusion.
Opportunities for all service recipients include placement at one of Challenge’s enclaves for work experience, situational assessment, skill building, and temporary or ongoing employment. Current enclave or group work sites are: Ithaca College – all 3 dish rooms, Cornell Campus Life Custodial, and Challenge’s Hydroponic Greenhouse.
Challenge is a customer-focused, professional subcontractor and business services provider, operated to serve as an extension of your business.
We offer:
- Light Assembly and Packaging Services
- Janitorial Services Challenge janitorial now taking new Contracts!
- Archival Microfilm Services
- Shredding Services
- Ready-for-Mail Assembly Services
- Digital Scanning and Film Conversion Services
- New Photo Scanning service - more info
Challenge Business Services serves a variety of businesses from large multinational corporations, major universities, colleges, government contractors to smaller local operations. Whether it’s microfilming the National Baseball Hall of Fame archives or constructing packaging for the Ithaca Beer Company, the diversity of our customers serves as example to the quality of the work we perform.
Our 100% quality control and focus on superior customer service keeps our customers coming back every time.
We are in business to help your business!
During the past several years, Challenge has become committed to developing business enterprises as a way to support its mission to provide quality employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities and other barriers to employment. Challenge operates a number of business operations including Finger Lakes Fresh that employ workers with and without disabilities.
Finger Lakes Fresh and other Challenge businesses are an integral part of shifting Challenge’s employment programs from supporting workers with disabilities in a work center to providing competitive employment with non-disabled workers in community settings.