Understanding Supported Living

Supported living is a simple concept in danger of being complicated until its power to help people with developmental disabilities gets lost.
Its simplicity is elegant.

a person with a disability
who requires long term, publicly funded, organized assistance
allies with an agency whose role is to arrange or provide
whatever assistance is necessary for the person to live
in a decent and secure home
of the person’s own

read full article by John O'Brien
http://thechp.syr.edu/!slwhatd.pdf

Myths of Supported Living answered
http://www.supportedliving.com/supported_living.html

Supported Living Services (SLS) consist of a broad range of services to adults with developmental disabilities who, through the Individual Program Plan (IPP) process, choose to live in homes they themselves own or lease in the community.
http://www.dds.ca.gov/livingArrang/sls.cfm