Traditionally called Community Living-Group Home Supports Services. Brighter Life Healthcare Inc. will provide the participant with the development and maintenance of skills related to activities of daily living, instrumental activities of daily living, and socialization, through the application of formal teaching methods in a community residential setting. Skills to be developed or maintained under Community Living Group Home Services are determined based on the participant’s individualized goals and outcomes as documented in his or her person-centered plan.
Brighter Life Healthcare professionals provide formal teaching methods such as systematic instruction. Our program provides the participants with opportunities to develop skills related to instrumental activities of daily living, vocation, and socialization which include, but are not limited to:
- Learning socially acceptable behaviors.
- Learning effective communication.
- Learning self-direction and problem-solving.
- Engaging in safety practices.
- Performing household chores safely and effectively.
- Performing self-care; and
- Learning skills for employment.
Brighter Life Healthcare Inc. is committed to providing Comfortable homes in local neighborhoods for adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities and/or behavioral health needs who receive assistance from the Developmental Disability Administration DDA and the Department of Behavioral Health and Mental Hygiene DHMH.
Community-based rehabilitation care: Supportive care in the community for adults with mental health needs receiving assistance from the Developmental Disabilities Administration DDA that may need long-term assistance with recovery including safe, transitions from the hospital. Staff support health and wellbeing through nursing care, making doctors’ appointments, and navigating the community for shopping and recreational activities.
Long-term residential care: Loving and supportive long-term care, in an apartment or house, for adults with developmental disabilities -physical and intellectual receiving assistance from the DDA. Maintaining independence, staff attend to medical, behavioral, and social needs by assisting with medication administration, grocery shopping, and doctor’s appointments.