COMMUNITY LIVING
Community Living Services is a component of Casa Allegra Community Services which supports adults with developmental disabilities to live safely and successfully where and with whom they choose on an ongoing basis.
Supported Living Services are about:
- Visualizing dreams, NOT creating models
- Supporting people, NOT fixing or changing them
- Figuring things out together, NOT having the answers
- Change and evolution, NOT maintenance
- Letting go and shared power, NOT control
- Lives, NOT models and replication
- Focusing on gifts, NOT deficits
- The community and citizenship, NOT the path of clienthood, isolation, and disconnectedness
- Regular and ordinary, NOT specialized and professionalized
- Creation of gifts, NOT diagnosis of differences
- Standing by people, NOT conditional relationships
- Life and living as we all know and experience it!