Developing Our Purpose Together.

We'll help you continue on a path of independence. Supporting people with disabilities ages 8 to adult in Winnebago County.

Services We Offer

Daily Living Skills Training

We will help your loved one build confidence and independence in their everyday life routines with guided and repetitive training in a familiar and supportive environment.

Discovery & Career Planning

Our team will work with our client to determine their interests and observe how they handle situations to determine successful career paths. Together we will work with local employers to develop work experiences that utilize their strengths and build their confidence toward long-term personal and financial independence.

Respite Care

Short-term breaks for full-time caregivers that can relieve stress, renew your energy, and restore a sense of balance to your life.

Parent Seminars

Monthly virtual forums designed to foster parent skills training, to give you tools and systems to improve your life, and the lives of your family. Stay tuned for the launch date of this program!

Real-world training and support

People with Disabilities Need Training and Support to prepare them for Life Experiences

To learn new skills
To set and work through daily routines
To develop confidence and purpose

We build a structure to support you and your child or care dependent adult through the use of individualized planning as a team. We provide guided development through many repetitions with professional life skills trainers.

Parents, family, school, and others are invited to help build the skills needs to succeed after high school and throughout adulthood.

Potential Skills: Daily Living at Home

Hygiene
Developing Everyday Routine
- Arrival, departing, making breakfast
Homemaking Skills:
- Meal Planning, making a bed, doing laundry, vacuuming
Leisure Skills:
- Reading, Music, Puzzles, coloring
Self-Care
- Exercise, meditation
Creating a budget
and more!

Potential Skills: Daily Living in the Community

Transportation
- Car, Uber, bus or other
Making appointments
- Doctor, dentist, etc...
Finance
- Creating/Maintaining a Budget
Grocery shopping
- Ordering food
Purchasing household supplies
Leisure activities
- Walking, movies, going to the park!
Safety
- Walking/Biking, parking lots
and more!

Potential Skills: Discovery & Career Planning

Transportation to and from work
Adaptive training
Inclusive career training
Establish networks and strategic partnerships
Exploring assistive technology options

About Focus on freedom

Founder - Marla Kopecky

I fell in love with the limitless possibilities of people with disabilities. I am passionate about their success and assisting them to live as independently as possible with the skills they are taught. I know from experience that with guided training, they will become successful citizens in their community. This passion for helping people with disabilities and their families lead me to begin Focus on Freedom LLC in 2019.

My Experience

My career began while in college working as an in-home therapist for children with autism. Through this experience I learned the value of understanding a family's perspective and their desires when developing life-long independent living skills for their child or care dependent adult with disabilities.

While continuing my work as an in-home therapist, I also began my career in teaching. Throughout this journey, I have worked with children with significant disabilities across all spectrums. This dual-path journey has taught me valuable skills that our children and care dependent adults with significant disabilities need for life-long success.

About Focus on Freedom

Focus on Freedom LLC provides support and guidance for people ages 8 through adulthood with daily living skills, respite care and discovery and career training. We work with people with disabilities within their homes and local communities. Our focus is to build life skills and confidence for people with disabilities so they can live as independently as possible. We work on skills within the home such as cleaning, hygiene, laundry, cooking and many more. Within the community, we focus on shopping, making appointments, public transportation, and more. Through one on one training, we focus on the direct skill in the location where the individual will use the skill - for example, at home or in out in the community. Developing our purpose together -

one client at a time.