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I Choose Where and With Whom I Live

I Choose Where and With Whom I Live. S U P P O R T E S E LF–D I R E C T E D S U P P O R T S  L I V I N G. July, 2011. Types of Places People Live While Receiving Long-Term Support in Wisconsin: Incomplete DRAFT FOR DISCUSSION at July, 2011, SDS Network.

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I Choose Where and With Whom I Live

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  1. I Choose Where and With Whom I Live S U P P O R T E S E LF–D I R E C T E D S U P P O R T S  L I V I N G July, 2011

  2. Types of Places People Live While Receiving Long-Term Support in Wisconsin: Incomplete DRAFT FOR DISCUSSION at July, 2011, SDS Network

  3. What is Supported Living? Supported Living is an alliance between a person who requires long term, publicly funded, organized assistance and 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. - adapted from John O’Brien, 1993

  4. What is Supported Living? The phrase home of the person’s own emphasizes that people who receive Supported Living own or lease their home. The home “belongs” to the person, not to a service provider. The importance of that characteristic cannot be overstated.

  5. What is Supported Living? The role of the agency is “… to arrange or provide whatever assistance is necessary.” This emphasis differentiates Supported Living from other important ways people have organized assistance within their own homes.

  6. What is Supported Living? • Supported Living • enables people to lease their own apartments or own their homes, • with their choice of roommates and staff, • with a variety of paid and unpaid support tailored to the needs of each person. • People in supported living may need little support from services, or they may need 24-hour support. • The kind and amount of support is tailored to the individual's needs.

  7. Supported Living is Found • In relatively small, “stand-alone agencies” across Wisconsin, the US, Canada the UK, Ireland, Australia • As a service created by families, particularly in Australia • Increasingly as an option within larger service agencies

  8. Supported Living in Wisconsin • Began in Dane County, with Options, and is the most prevalent residential service in Dane County • Agencies from one end of the state to the other, from Syldan, Inc in Racine to New Horizons North in Ashland • Growing within Family Care, particularly within Community Care of Central Wisconsin • Many providers are exploring organizational changes needed to offer supported living

  9. Next Steps in Wisconsin • Continue to build understanding within DHS, IRIS and Family Care of importance of and cost-effectiveness of supported living; • Expand Supported Living working group; • Develop a learning group of agencies wanting to offer supported living, and engaging in the ongoing learning needed; • Support and assist individuals and family members who would like to develop small supported living agencies.

  10. Next Steps in Wisconsin • Complete written materials that describe how Supported Living works (and share materials that have been developed in the past); • Complete a description of how Supported Living has become an effective option within Family Care (CCCW); • Enable IRIS to more effectively offer Supported Living • Your idea here: _____________________

  11. Learn More • Contact Dennis Harkins, InControl Wisconsin at dwharks@aol.com to be part of the Supported Living work group, to learn more about what we are doing in Wisconsin, to suggest what we might do better. • See more detailed planning on Supported Living at incontrolwisconsin.org/ . View What We Are About and go to Supported Living . • Join an international conference on Supported Living this September in San Francisco – contact Dennis for a brochure.

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