Lifespire

Residential services - provide a variety of options, dependent upon the level of assistance needed by each individual. Each facility allows the highest degree of independence. Some of these options include: 1. Intermediate care facilites: offer comprehensive professional residential services and care for adult with multiple disabilities. 2. Community residence: provide structured and supervised community living services. 3. Individualized residential alternatives: innovative residential services individually designed for developmentally disabled adults whose needs may not be met by traditional services.

Article 16 clinic-designed to meet the specific clinical needs of developmentally disabled individuals and to help sustain them in their communities. The clinic provides personal assessment and treatment by professional, fully-accredited practitioners. Some of the services currently provided include: psychological counseling rehabilitation counseling, occupational therapy, nutrition, sexuality counseling, medical examinations and psychiatry.

Waiver services - offers choices for individualized treatment and training to people with deficits in self care and domestic and independent living skills. Some of these services are: 1. Community habilitation: an in-home trainer helps the individual in the privacy of his/her own home and community to acquire and improve skills in many areas. 2. Day habilitation: day programmin which offers training in self-care, domestic, travel and independent livingskills. It provides a unique opportunity to acquire skills in actual community sites. 3. Waiver respite: waiver after-school respite programming offers recreation services to students, children and adults with develpment disabilities; age 14-21 and over. It uses the combination of specialty instructors and community-based recreation, access top recreational activities in the community through the use of technology to enable them to enjoy leisure time parallel to their non-disabled peers.

Other programs include family support

which includes in-home behavior

management, crisis intervention.

Community Habilitation that offers in-

home and community training.