Programs

Residential Alternative Living Units:
This service to adults with developmental disabilities is designed for one to three people in each unit. The level of supervision in an ALU depends on individuals’ capabilities and level of independence. Individuals are offered the least restrictive living arrangements conductive to maximum growth and independence. The program is based on the Normalization Principles of making available “patterns and conditions” of everyday life that are close as possible to the patterns and conditions of the mainstream of society. As individuals in services build skills, they move through the continuum to progressively more independent living situations.

Community Supported Living Arrangement:
These services provide individuals with the support necessary to enable them to live in their own homes, apartments, family homes, or rental units with no more than two other non-related individuals receiving the same type of services or members of the same family regardless of the family size. CSLA provide full range of community based supports, including friends and neighbors, for the delivery of supervision and other necessary interventions.
Family and Individual Support Services:

FISS strengthen the family unit and are designed to help families stay together. Families with persons with developmental disabilities typically experience emotional, physical and financial demands because the care and attention their family members with disabilities require tends to be intensive and indefinite. Family Support Services are flexible and responsive to what the family needs, when they need it. Families have discretion over how the money is spent. A family’s needs may be routine or in other cases families will need a more customized level of service. FISS is available for individuals under 22 years of age.

Vocational Services:
Individuals often need assistance to obtain and maintain work in the community. The program will support individuals in developing job skills and behavior appropriate for the workplace. Work in the community provides income, self-esteem and personal value for the individual. Accommodation, coaching, individual choice and preferences are used in matching individuals and employment opportunities. The following service modules are to be provided: (a) Training in skills necessary to perform a job; (b) Community mobility training; (c) Guidance in acceptable job behaviors; (d) Job seeking and interviewing skills; (e) Vocational assessment activities; (f) On the job training in basic safety, work related hygiene, work skills; (g) assistance in job development and placement; (h) resume preparation and interview preparation services.