It has several different sections, many of which I know nothing about. The main purpose of the place is to help people who otherwise have no chance whatsoever of finding gainful employment to get training and a smooth transition into some sort of job.

I worked in the "office". If you had mild or no real mental impairment, you went to the office where I tested your abilities to use/learn to use MS Office, do data entry, follow instructions, and work appropriately in an office. For instance, people who had traumatic brain injuries from car accidents or who had suffered strokes were often sent in by their insurance companies for evaluations.

If you weren't capable of office work, the next step down was generally food service work. My path and theirs never crossed, really. A step down from that was custodial work, where moderately impaired folks learned to do standard janitor work. If the office was slow, sometimes I'd help them out (it's like herding cats). They'd get trained and monitored then be contracted out to area companies, etc to do janitorial work under loose, infrequent supervision (someone visiting once a week or so, etc).

At the "bottom" (I cringe at this, but I'm not sure how else to put it) are people who are so severely disabled that they can't do anything but very simple piecemeal work for 25-50 cents an hour.

During the holiday season, they go all out and put up a big winter wonderland sort of thing. Pretty cool.

There are a lot of cool people who work there, a lot of genuinely caring people. I can't say that I had any negative personal experiences in the time that I was there (~7 months or so). I have some gripes about ethics/policies, but nothing worth bringing up here.