A cup of joe can change the way you start your morning. At Point Perk Coffee Shop in Covington, they are helping to change lives.Mary Ellen Cann loves her job. “I say ‘How you doing?' And everything. 'Welcome to Point Perk' and stuff like that," Cann said. She works at Point Perk.And, she's quite popular with the crowd.“The other day she brought in her high school graduation pictures and she as showing anybody, like, 'Oh you want to see when I graduated high school," manager Brooke Schnelle said. Mary Ellen has been with Point Perk ever since it opened seven years ago. From hot coffee and lattes to plant based energy drinks, Mary Ellen knows the menu inside and out. “I love joy and working here. You know. Be happy with people here. People come in and get their drinks," Cann said. Point Perk is an enterprise of The Point/Arc in Northern Kentucky.They provide opportunities to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.The goal is for clients to reach their highest potential educationally, residentially, socially and vocationally.“Yes, they can still work and yes they are capable to talk to people and they still have social skills and whatever it may be. It’s more or less just me being a guiding hand to them," Schnelle said. Schnelle is the coffee shop's new manager.Her grandmother started the non-profit in 1972."With a fresh new staff and under new leadership, I just want people to come in and see us and have fun and a feel good cup of coffee," Schnelle said. Mary Ellen who has been with the non-profit for it's nearly 50 years, wants the same thing.She may be 67 years old, but she's having too much fun to retire. “I don’t want to. I love it here," Cann said. The coffee shop now has eight employees.Point Perk is open Monday through Friday from 7am to 3pm. To learn more visit https://thepointarc.org/point-perk-coffee-shop/.