Region 8’s Community Living services assist adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities in learning skills, helping them develop adequate resources and obtain knowledge necessary to live independently. Participants become more self-determined, gain stability and increase productivity in their daily lives while utilizing learned skills and resources to establish residency to the most independent living situation possible. 

Additionally, individuals will learn how to maintain a budget to sufficiently run a household and account for personal expenses. Participants will learn good personal hygiene and health, ways to sufficiently care for personal property, and how to interact socially with others in productive daily activities. 

Shared Supported Living -Residences that are either owned or leased by Region 8 or participants with staff members providing supervision less than 24 hours per day. The level of supervision is dependent upon the level of needed support. 

Supervised Living - Group living setting where multiple people reside in the same home and are provided 24-hour supervision by staff appropriate to the level of need of the residence 

Requirements Specific to Shared Supported Living and Supervised Living:

• Participants must be given an option of a non-disability specific setting and of a private unit (if they have the resources) 

• Participants have the freedom to furnish and decorate their sleeping or living units within the lease or other agreement 

• Participants must be given a key to the unit with only appropriate staff having keys to doors 

• Participants sharing units have a choice of roommate in that setting 

• Participants must always have access to food 

• Participants choose when, where and with whom they eat 

• Participants cannot be forced to attend a day program if they desire to stay home, are sick or have appointments during the day 

• Participants can have visitors when they choose 
  
  The setting is physically accessible (ADA compliant).