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The Community Supported Living Arrangement is designed to promote independent living in the community for individuals with developmental disabilities who live in their own homes, but still need some support. The services we offer through this program can range from a few hours a week for help with things like money management, shopping or social activities to 24 hours staff support depending on the individual’s needs. Each program is specially designed to provide for the individual’s unique needs and desires. Through the IHCOS comprehensive array of services, the program seeks to improve the individual’s self-sufficiency, independence, prevention of homelessness as well as housing retention and recreation. For us at IHCOS, the Community Supported Living Arrangements is an ongoing process of relationship building resulting in getting to know the individual, the family, the advocate as well as the individual’s aspirations and needs, through regular productive contacts of “doing for, doing with, and having individual do for him or herself” (whenever possible) in achieving their life satisfactions. IHCOS offers the following types of support services to families and individuals:
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