Community Homes

They provide ongoing support to individuals as they make personal choices and establish a preferred quality of life. Community homes house between one and four individuals, offering safe, comfortable living environments, each with its own unique décor. Most homes have private bedrooms.

Trained staff assistance, support, and guidance are available to individuals residing in community homes up to 24 hours a day across all areas of wellbeing, skill development, everyday tasks, and planning. These resources offer behavioral, emotional and medical support as needed.

At the heart of community homes is the belief that person-centered planning is key to developing, maintaining and improving skills necessary to living and participating meaningfully in a community, and to living more independently. A Program Specialist works closely with individuals (as well as with their families and support teams) to create an Individual Support Plan, or ISP, that makes personal preferences a reality.

Throughout each and every day, individualized support is provided in a respectful manner that is congruent with Step By Step’s belief that people with developmental disabilities and their families have both the right and the ability to lead the decision-making that influences their lives.