Families First in Southern Vermont

Families First in Southern Vermont, Inc. offers community supports that enhance consumers' access to activities in the local community, promote independence, and enable participation in a broad range of experiences. Through this program, consumers develop independent living skills, establish and enhance friendships, volunteer in the community, pursue recreation and leisure activities, and get healthy through exercise and fitness programs.

The consumers served in the Families First in Southern Vermont, Inc. Coordination program receive individualized support from a dedicated group of community inclusion facilitators who take responsibility for managing the entire array of services each consumer receives. Working together, staff, consumer and family develop an annual individualized service agreement that reflects each consumer's goals for the year and serves as the guide that drives schedule and services.

Families First in Southern Vermont, Inc. offers home and shared living supports ranging from strengthening family-based living options to offering a few scheduled hours per week in a consumer's home helping them develop life skills (such as cooking, housekeeping, and personal finance) to 24/7 contracted support in a shared living provider's home. This program focuses on ensuring the consumer's health and safety, maximizing independence, addressing individual preferences and needs, creating a supportive and inclusive home environment, and enhancing quality of life.