Community Bridges

Participants in self-directed services include seniors, individuals with development disabilities, and individuals with acquired brain disorders. By promoting personal growth, responsibility, health, and safety, self-directed services allow participants to experience independence, community, inclusion, employment, and a fulfilling home life the way they want it. All participants of self-directed services have the option to customize a budget plan that best meets their individual needs. Community Bridges encourages individuals and their families to recruit, hire, and supervise people who provide them with assistance, and supports the individual through the hiring and management process as needed, Community Bridges strongly believes that individuals and their families in the self-directed services program should have complete choice and control over personal finances but have the assistance they need through workshops, guidelines, and advise to help maximize success.

The day and residential services program embraces natural, community-based settings, participant services are shaped around the unique needs of the individual and their family. By providing assistance with daily tasks on an as-needed basis, day and residential services participants live with a family member, roommate, independently, or in a staffed residence. By empowering participants to create their own life plans, make life decisions, and openly contribute to their Community Bridges partnership, we allow each participant to be in full control of their life. Individuals in Community Bridges' Day and residential services receive guidance from direct support staff whose roles are to encourage participants to live their lives as independently as possible. Each staff member is screened, interviewed, and selected based on compatibility factors. Director support staff members are trained to encourage participants to develop relationships within the community, allowing individuals to become comfortable in their social setting. With the help of direct support staff, individuals and their families have the ability to connect to service providers in the community who best fit their needs.

Family support case management provides information, training, support, and connection to valued resources for families of children with chronic health conditions, developmental disability or their elders who experience frailty due to aging, training is designed to help people take control of their lives, and help implement their dreams for good life in the community and a healthy future, Community Bridges provides parent-to-parent connections, guardianship and future planning, family assistance, and enhances access to educational needs, support groups, leisure activities, housing and jobs or job training. This information, training and support gives the families and individuals a much better chance of becoming successful in meeting basic life needs.

Respite Care, Independent Living, Early Intervention, Employment Services, Community Support, and Staff and Clinical Services.