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2006 - 2007

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Ms. Chris Baker

Committed to developing resources and providing support services to individuals with disabilities that foster responsibility and independence, and empower them to make informed decisions regarding where, how, and with whom they live.

The Community Living Program is a large vendor of housing support services for people with developmental, physical, mental health, sensory and/or multiple disabilities in Sarasota County. It offers participants the opportunity to have a choice and a voice with regard to their living arrangements and helps to fulfill long term goals when residents are able to share a small, single family home with roommates that lead to an increased quality of life and the most independent lives.  The program is committed to securing cost-effective housing solutions and family-like living arrangements for one of our most disenfranchised groups including those who are elderly; providing them with safe, affordable and accessible homes within our communities.

Two components enable participants to have options and a choice with regard to where and with whom they live. 

The Off-Campus component offers small, single family living arrangements for participants in homes or apartments located throughout Sarasota County.  Generally, the residents are employed by local companies and stability in their living arrangements enables them to remain self-sufficient, employed and productive tax-payers and active in the community.

The On-Campus component offers adults with the most significant developmental and/or multiple disabilities to live in small, single family homes that they share with up to eight residents that are located on the CHAC campus. This type of arrangement actually fosters increased independence for residents who are able to access work, recreational and social pursuits on the 32-acre campus unassisted. These residents are generally employed through the Occupational Training program. CHAC Transportation Services enables them to participate in community events and activities as the majority are unable to access public transportation on their own.

The Community Living Program enables participants to:
 

	Devise a realistic and achievable housing plan that becomes part of an important, individualized Futures Plan
	Offer community living arrangements for participants that meets their individual level of care needs, for example, 24 hour staffing support is available for those sharing homes who require this level of support
	Offer supported independent living services
	Offers consumers the opportunity to live in a more natural home environment, as opposed to institutional or nursing home type situations, in safe, affordable and accessible homes or apartments in our community
	Offer assistance and education/training through the Living Skills component that helps participants learn to address/resolve general, everyday types of  problems and learn the basic routine necessary to thrive in community living arrangements on or off the CHAC campus
	Have transportation for emergency and/or routine medical care; to and from community activities; educational programming, work, shopping, recreational and/or religious events and other needs, as necessary; offers classes on personal safety presented by the Sarasota County Sheriff’s office
	Participate in HIV and pregnancy prevention through Coastal Recovery and Planned Parenthood
	To acquire coping skills necessary to survive and thrive in a supported living setting to help increase a participant’s opportunity to remain self-sufficient, employed, productive and active in the community

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