Community Living DSPs provide services to adults and children with disabilities (which may include intellectual disability, physical disability, brain injury, or mental illness) in their homes and in the community. We work with individuals to teach, guide, and support basic living skills and maintain stable mental health, so they can be as independent as possible.
Community Living DSPs are responsible for helping the individuals we support with their individual goals. Tasks include assisting with a wide range of basic living skills including but not limited to: cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping, budgeting, hygiene, assisting with appointments, socialization (going out to eat, shopping, personal relationships) with peers and community, etc. DSPs also ensure that medications are given/taken,and that the client's physical needs are met.
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Community Living Settings:
Waiver and Home Based Habilitation: 3-5 adult persons supported live in a home.Â
RCF (Residential Care Facility for the Intellectually Disabled): Up to 12 adult persons supported live in a home.
Hourly SCL (Supported Community Living): Drop-in support to individuals in their own home or in a family home.
Respite: Service designed to give a supported individualâs primary caretaker a break from their caretaker responsibilities.