Choose Friends

eQuality staff strives to make the workplace as fun and friendly as possible. eQuality Associates build close relationships not only with staff, but also with peers.

Channel 12

eQuality - Pathways to Potential has formed a community partnership with local cable Channel 12. Channel 12 serves Brooklyn Park, Brooklyn Center, Crystal, Golden Valley, Maple Grove, New Hope, Osseo, Plymouth and Robbinsdale. Groups of Associates have been working on projects there on and off since 2003. Associates have learned how to format and plan their shows, use the cameras, mix audio and are now working on editing their own shows. The groups have gone to the Channel 12 studio for on set filming as well as borrowed cameras to use on location. Several eQuality shows have been broadcast on Channel 12, including an interview with the Mayor of Plymouth.

Environmental Education

eQuality has partnered with the Three Rivers Park District and specifically the North Mississippi Regional Park since 2002. Every week there is at least one eQuality group that heads to the Carl W. Kroening Interpretive Center in Minneapolis. Situated right along the Mississippi river, the park is the perfect setting for eQuality Associates to learn about nature.[SinglePic not found]

Yellow Tree Theater

In 2008, eQuality began a partnership with the Yellow Tree Theater located in Osseo. Professional actors and actresses work with Associates on a regular basis to learn how to express emotions on the stage, speak loud enough to be heard in a production, hit their marks and learn their lines. This is a great therapeutic outlet for many Associates and allows them to become more confident and use their creativity in a non-vocational way. eQuality Associates will be putting on a three day production in the spring of 2009.

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Our Resume

Download a PDF of our resume here.

Dear Potential Employer,

We are eQuality. We can provide quality employes in a cost efficent and dependable fashion.

We’re a community organization that provides employment opportunities for adults with developmental disavilities. Employee referrals can be provided either individually or as an enclave.

The benefits of our individuals working directly for your company include:

Enthusiastic and dedicated employees who want to work.
Quality control. We provide on the job training and ongoing support to ensure job sucess.
Job Coordinators are responsive to the needs of employers. They provide initial training and ongoing support, as well as retraining when necessary.

The benefits of a group of individuals workoing with the direct support of a job coach include:

Fewer administrative costs. Individuals are employees of, and paid by eQuality. eQuality payes taxes and workmen’s compensation for our associates.
Reliability. Our groups are dependable and consistent. Through cross-training, work is completed even when regulat associates or staff are absent.
eQuaity job coaches are welltrained and effective. They provide training and quality control for their work groups.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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History

eQuality - Pathways to Potential was founded in 1998 by three individuals with over sixty years experience in non-profit services to the developmentally disabled. Funding is provided through a purchase of services contract with Hennepin County and the program is licensed by the Minnesota Department of Human Services. The organization presents an alternative approach to day services by being totally community based. There is no “home” facility and all activities are based in businesses and community centers. Key relationships have been established with local community centers such as the Maple Grove Community Center and the Plymouth Creek Center. The first participant/associate joined in 1999 and the current enrollment is over one hundred. There are over 20 permanent staff members.

Mission & Values

eQuality - Pathways to Potential challenges individuals with developmental disabilities to maximize their potential and actively participate in life’s opportunities by delivering community based, individualized programs.

eQuality - Pathways to Potential

In a cooperative environment eQuality - Pathways to Potential will provide opportunities based on the following principles:

Individualism

We will recognize and celebrate the uniqueness of individuals and provide opportunities and experiences based on specific abilities, wants and needs.

Innovative

We continually challenge individuals with developmental disabilities as well as the community in an effort to provide the broadest range of experiences possible.

Rights/Responsibility

eQuality facilitates independent decision making by helping individuals understand the rewards and consequences of their choices.

Excellence

Quality will always be the standard in providing programs and serves on behalf of the individuals we serve.

Community Gardens Partnership

eQuality’s enclaves worked hard in two community gardens in the spring and summer of 2008. Program Associates from the Maple Grove Community Center, Plymouth Creek Community Center and AaCron partnered with JD Rivers community gardens in Minneapolis (located in Wirth Park) and Gail Woods Farm in Minnetrista. Associates prepared raised beds for planting at the Children’s Garden at JD Rivers. In exchange for this work, eQuality was given a section for their own plants.[SinglePic not found]
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eQuality assists adults with Developmental Disabilities with finding and maintaining competitive and contracted employment. Click here to view eQuality’s resume.