Living Alternatives for the Developmentally Disabled (LADD)

During the 2022-2023 fiscal year, the executive director of Living Alternatives for the Developmentally Disabled Inc. (ladd) ensured high-quality services were provided at all service locations, including multiple locations requiring 24-hour staffing support. Ladd now has 67 program sites in the community, supporting a total of 300 people with disabilities in four counties while employing over 500 employees. There continues to be a nationwide shortage of direct care workers. Ladd is consistently working to deal with staffing shortages and continues to implement strategies for hiring and retaining direct care workers to reduce the number of open positions and overtime. Ladd continued with high satisfaction, as noted by the people supported and guardians, and the excellent outcomes from 42 cite-free audits conducted by outside contract agencies. Ladd has created and had multiple direct care worker training courses approved by the statewide training guideline workgroup (stgw). the stgw is a committee of the community mental health association of Michigan. the workgroup's purpose is to review and recommend training guidelines for support staff working in all types of support and service settings.