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Independence for Our Employees with Disabilities Quality Products for Our Customers WorldwideCambria County Associationfor the Blind & Handicapped“The mission of the Cambria County Association for the Blind and Handicapped is to develop and support an environment for persons with disabilities which promotes vocational and employment training, independence, and community involvement through rehabilitation, recreation, and low-vision services, and provides education for the prevention of blindness. The Cambria County Association for the Blind and Handicapped unites vocational training anda manufacturing business producing quality products that offers employment for persons with disabilities while ensuring worldwide customer satisfaction.”For nearly 85 years, the reason our non-profit association exists ...From the beginning, sewing proved a worthwhile occupation to teach our blind and handicapped clients. The visually impaired woman above is sewing binding on a blanket to be sold to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for use at a state institution. Floor mops were one of our first products. This 1940’s era photo shows a worker measuring and cutting strands of yarn for a mop. We continue to produce mops. Today’s raw yarn arrives in larger spools, but the measuring and cutting process is unchanged. Independence for Our Employees ... Quality for Our CustomersIndependence for Our Employees ... Quality for Our Customers3Since 1927 the Cambria County Association for the Blind and Handicapped has successfully met a complicated, twofold challenge. Some might speculate that products made by persons with disabilities are somehow lower in quality, but that is clearly not true. CCABH has repeatedly achieved Boeing Corporation’s Performance Award in Silver or Gold for Excellent Quality and Delivery. Our various products routinely exceed the most stringent quality standards demanded by respected national and international customers. At the same time, we provide a safe, supportive workplace for our employees with severe disabilities. Over and over again our dedi-cated staff has found positive ways to teach, help, and encourage our workers. They have devised easier ways to make products, and developed innovative new product lines. Ours is truly a win-win story.To foster independence for people with blindness and other disabilities who live in our community. To manufacture useful, high qualityproducts for our customers worldwide.We strive to achieve two goals: Bob Bending Department9 YearsToday we have a contract with Boeing Corporation for our skilled seamstresses and fitters to produce insulation blankets to fit the complex shapes inside the skin of Boeing’s C17 Globemaster III cargo plane.Rovidia sam, venet aditentio.Reflective tubes are hung from the roof of underground mines. They improve visibility, and colors are used to indicate various hazards. We sell a wide range of CAB Products to mines worldwide. Skull caps are part of the headgear worn with military gas masks. We produce these for the U.S. Defense Department.Foodservice kits include plastic silverware, napkin and condiments. We custom assemble these kits for hospitals and institutions. In 1929 our products were sold locally to the public and to small businesses. Here persons who are blind are using looms to create woven rugs. Our first employees were visually impaired. Today we serve persons with disabilities ranging from physical and mental challenges to mental illness and addictions. Independence for Our Employees ... Quality for Our CustomersIndependence for Our Employees ... Quality for Our Customers5Our reflective safety garments meet and exceed ANSI / ISEA specifications for Class II High Visibility Safety Apparel. We manufacture an amazing variety of products, and we sell them all over the world.From mops and rugs to cable hangers, hooks, and reflective safety garments,through the years the Cambria County Association for the Blind and Handicapped has manufactured a wide range of useful items. Our management team has invested significant time and energy in developing markets for our extensive product line. We have had great success. Today CCABH products are used everywhere from gold mines and hospitals, to prisons and airports. Our innovative manufacturing and sales efforts continue as we are constantly looking for new products that can be manufactured by the persons with disabilities who we serve. CAB workers overcome their disabilities every day. Pictured above, Harry wheels a heavy cart of partially finished cable hangers past our newest automatic CNC 3-dimensional wire forming machine at our expanded Ebensburg Division.Our reflective safety vests, leggings, and sweatshirts are worn by highway and construction workers in Pennsylvania and many other states. The high reflectivity and durability of our garments makes them ideal for daily use in unforgiving outdoor or underground work sites. CAB was the original developer of Lifelines for underground mines. This safety product allows miners to find their way to safety in the event of fire or dense smoke in underground mines. CAB’s innovative and durable design quickly became the industry favorite, and today CAB Lifelines are used by the majority of underground coal mines in the United States. Our employees with disabilities manufacture hundreds of miles of Lifeline each year. Listening to customers leads to innovative products and industry leadership.Every Lifeline is custom made with colors and indicators specific to each mine. CAB uses CNC machines to coat steel hangers with high dielectric grade plastisol. CAB’s dedicated staff works one on one to insure quality and consistency.Independence for Our Employees ... Quality for Our CustomersIndependence for Our Employees ... Quality for Our Customers7Consistent high quality makes CAB Products ideal for extreme conditions in both above and below ground applications. Along the Artic Ocean on the North Slope of Alaska, CAB stainless steel cable rings and saddles provide safe, strong support for electrical cables that run under oil pipelines. CAB specializes in hangers for these types of high corrosive environments. We ship CAB mining, tunneling, electrical, and pipeline products throughout the United States and to twenty foreign countries, including Australia, Chile, Indonesia, Norway and Mongolia. Each year our employees with disabilites manufacture millions of CAB cable hangers. We produce miles of CAB Lifeline, plus thousands of reflective safety vests, markers, tubes, and more. Because of our quality, these numbers continue to grow. We frequently customize our products, and we often partner with our customers to handle special requests and find ways to solve specific problems. We actively develop markets for our various products. We publish brochures and catalogs of CAB Products in both English and Spanish, and our sales staff exhibits our product lines at numerous trade shows around the world. We welcome new possibilities, new products, and new ideas. Most CAB Products are sold through distributors; other items are manufactured to specification under a variety of contracts with federal and state government agencies and non-profit institutions. We employ over 300 individuals with disabilities who live in and near Cambria County, Pennsylvania. Our dedicated professional staff of 55 oversees, guides and directs our daily operations. Our sales have grown tremendously.We are proud of the technology and quality that go into every CAB Product.The Cambria County Association for the Blind and Handicapped is a long name. Years ago we shortened it to CAB, and designed a friendly little character to help in our marketing efforts. We call him the CAB man, and he is now recognized worldwide.Our School to Work program helps high school students with disabilities learn job skills, appropriate work conduct, and more. Approximately four staff and 58 employees with disabilities work in our modern sewing department in Johnstown. Vocational aptitude testing is not so much a test, as a way to find out what talents people have and what kind of tasks they prefer .Independence for Our Employees ... Quality for Our CustomersIndependence for Our Employees ... Quality for Our Customers9Our School-To-Work program is offered to high school students with disabilities. It provides a professional assessment of their capabilities and employment training while still in school.Vocational Rehabilitation Personal Work Adjustment Training School to WorkOn the Job Training We employ persons with disabilities.Having a disability does not mean you can’t work. Through vocational rehabilitation we teach people how to work despite their disability. It begins with vocational aptitude testing, in which our rehabilitation staff evaluates each individual’s capabilities, strengths, and interests. Then using those results, we provide one on one professional training in skill areas such as packaging, assembly, metals-forming, industrial sewing, welding, cleaning, and material-handling. The training is highly individualized and usually leads to long term employment at CCABH or elsewhere in the community. Personal Work Adjustment Training is provided to help our disabled employees learn appropriate behavior and problem solving both on the job and in daily living. They receive practical training in things like budgeting, banking, and comparative shopping. While in this program, individuals have opportunities to experience a sampling of production jobs. It is our goal to place each employee with a disability in his or her appropriate level of work. Our staff provides on-the-job training and job-coaching services to local employers who offer opportunities for qualified workers with disabilities. Nearly 300 individuals with disabilities work at the Cambria CountyAssociation for the Blind and Handicapped. Having a regular job, earning a paycheck, and doing something productive gives our unique workforce independence and confidence. It makes their lives better in many ways.We teach many daily living skills as well as home safety practices. Mike Bending and PackagingDepartments7 YearsNext >