Opportunity Enterprises, Inc.

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Mission
The mission of Opportunity Enterprises Inc. is to promote self-sufficiency and life choices for challenged individuals.

Vision
Opportunity Enterprises will be the leading provider of choice for services to challenged individuals in Porter County and Northwest Indiana.

Values

We value each other.
We believe in servant leadership.
We care about simple kindness, courtesy, and honesty.
We support one another individually and as a team, and believe strongly in need to create absolute trust in the workplace.
We strive for excellence.

History
Opportunity Enterprises began in 1967 as Porter County Association for Retarded Children, which was started by a group of 10 parents wanting more for their disabled children. We have grown into our current 60,000 square foot building, with a staff of over 300 serving roughly 1,700 clients in Porter County and Northwest Indiana. We are a nonprofit organization with numerous sites, including our main Valparaiso campus, group homes throughout Porter County, and our JobSource office in Merrillville.

For the past 40 years Opportunity Enterprises has been a leader in the creation, development, and delivery of exciting programs and opportunities for challenged individuals of all ages. We live in a marvelously dynamic and rapidly changing world where innovation, research, and technology have broadened horizons and increased reality. Our goal, quite simply, is to change the world by changing the lives of the people we serve and their families. We do this by:

Challenging the preconceived notions of what can be accomplished by any individual.

Demolishing the stereotype of the helpless disabled.

Working together with our clients and their families to maximize the potential of each individual.
Forming partnerships and strategic alliances to extend our reach and impact into a broad spectrum of non-traditional community efforts, from affordable housing to transportation, from innovative therapies to senior care.

We are Opportunity Enterprises, Inc. and
We're in the Business of Amazing People.

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