Peak Community Services history

Incorporation papers were also filed for the Pulaski County Council for Retarded and Exceptional Persons, Inc. in 1955.

The Logansport School system opened Hendricks Special Education School in 1958.

By November of 1960, the CCCMRC had organized the Hendricks Habilitation Center and acquired the old Youth Foundation building on Woodlawn Avenue for this purpose.

The first contract for sheltered workshop services began at the Hendricks Center in 1961, just three years after its opening.

Shortly after Carolyn (Crick) Moore was hired as the first Executive Director in 1964, a new facility was acquired for the day center.

In 1965, Pulaski County opened its first workshop for adults with developmental disabilities in Star City.

A new workshop was underway on the site of the Hendricks Habilitation Center in 1969.

The present Workshop and Day Services facility was purchased in Winamac, Indiana in 1972.

In 1973, The Pulaski County Association for Retarded Children welcomed twelve new clients to its facility.

A group home for men opened in Logansport, Indiana in 1979.

For the first time, since the expansion of the workshop in 1984, the PCS Industries space in Logansport underwent renovation.

Dave Congdon took over as Executive Director in 1987.

The facility known as Pulaski County Association for Retarded Citizens in Winamac, Indiana, became known as Pulaski Developmental Services shortly after they came under the management of CCCMRC. Management by the CCCMRC continued until 1995, when the two organizations merged.

Steve Brundage became the new Executive Director in 2000.

Training Recreation Individual Programming (TRIP), a program devoted to providing recreational opportunities to clients, began in 2001.

In 2002 the organization was renamed "Peak Community Services, Inc.".

Don Weikle became the new Executive Director in 2006 and the title of Executive Director was changed to Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Under new administration, an IDEM Grant was received, to purchase shredding equipment for the clients in the workshop.

In the fall of 2007, two clients were the first to reap the benefits of this foundation.

In 2008 Peak Community Services Inc. was awarded a three-year accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF).

Also in 2009, June Kestle, who taught for 42 years in Pulaski, Winamac, and Logansport, passed away and left a generous bequest to the Peak Community Services Foundation.

Peak Community Services Inc. earned both the CERT and CARF (for Habilitation, PCS Industries, and Employment Services) three-year accreditations in 2011.

Construction of a replacement group home in Winamac, Indiana took place and was completed by the end of 2017.