Community Living Program
Lorri Waldron, Director/QDDP
lorri.waldron@choicesforpeoplecenter.org
573-364-7444
ALL SERVICES ARE FUNDED THROUGH ROLLA REGIONAL CENTER/DEPT. OF MENTAL HEALTH OR PRIVATE PAY FROM THE INDIVIDUAL LIVING IN THE COMMUNITIES OF PHELPS COUNTY.
PERSONAL ASSISTANCE AND COMMUNITY INTEGRATION
Personal Assitance may include bathing, toileting, transfer and ambulation, skin care, grooming, dressing, extension of therapies
and exercise, care of adaptive equipment, meal preparation, feeding and incidental household cleaning and laundry. Community Integration may include shopping, banking, budgeting, using public
transportation, social interaction, recreation and leisure activities.
COMMUNITY INTEGRATION
This program works with individuals who reside within their own home or within a Residential Care Facility (RCF). Choices for People Center staff support the individual learning or utilizing their social skills while participating in community activities. Some of these activities may include shopping, socialization, volunteering, swimming, fishing, basketball, painting, and Special Olympic events.
RESPITE CARE
Out of Home:
This consists of temporary care provided outside the home in a licensed or
accredited Residential Care Facility (RCF) to provide temporary relief to the customary caregiver. As much as is practically possible, the individual's regular programs are maintained while in
respite care.
In Home:
Provided to individuals unable to care for themselves on a short-term basis for relief of those persons normally providing the care, other than formal paid
caregivers. To be eligible for in-home respite care the persons who normally provide care to the individual must be other than formal paid caregivers.
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