For CHAI residents, a vital ingredient of personal success is the opportunity to engage in interesting, constructive activities; to become appropriately employed; and to be accepted into community life as competent and valued members of our society.

There was a critical need to expand these services, to devote some actual space to an activity center, and to employ staff to integrate and coordinate the services for the current residents of the group homes, as well as to begin to expand these services to include the future residents who will be in CHAI's semi-independent living program (which is currently in the planning stages) and others in the community needing these services.

The Wolens Learning Center opened in the summer of 2004 thanks to a generous endowment from the Kalman and Ida Wolens Foundation. It was created to enrich the lives of the CHAI residents and to assist them in achieving balance in their lives in the following areas: Vocational, Social/Recreational, Spiritual and Educational. An aggressive three-year expansion plan will enhance the already-existing program.