Community Living Supports

This program provides supports to individuals diagnosed with a mental illness, developmental disability or dually diagnosed with a developmental disability and mental illness. Supports are provided to the individual based upon their needs and desires in their own homes, which they own or lease, and in the community. Staff supports range from 24 hours per day to a few hours per week. Crisis support is available 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

The goal of this program is to assist individuals in living in their own homes and exercising the maximum amount of control possible over their lives. To the extent of their abilities, consumers exercise choice over major life issues including, but not limited to, where they live, with whom they live, activities of daily living, diet, leisure activities, and the staff who work with them.

Consumers are provided with whatever supports may be necessary to reside in their own home in the community. These supports may range from assistance with personal care needs to medication management and assistance with medical needs, to scheduling and transporting consumers to community activities of their choice. Staff assist consumers in learning to do those things that they choose to learn. These may include self-care skills, community living skills, educational and vocational skills, leisure skills, and social skills to develop support networks in the community. Each consumer has an individually designed service/support plan based on his/her unique needs, desires and abilities.

Entrance into the program requires the full and unanimous commitment of the Service Team, consumer and family, to the concept of supported living. The consumer must be allowed to make the basic choices of daily living even if there is a guardian. The consumer, guardian and Service Team must also accept the normal risk associated with living in the community. Capacity for this Program is unlimited, but dependent upon the availability of trained staff.