At the Community Summit in Wenatchee, Washington, hundreds gathered to personify this year’s conference motto: cultivate potential. Nearly every kind of person showed up—client and direst support professionals alike. The atmosphere of every room was that of love and acceptance, and every face had a smile. With a variety of conferences, unique speakers, and a unified [...]
The last blog post described the legal problems regarding and the steps toward providing better services to DD/ID individuals with a history of sexually inappropriate behaviors. This post will explain more thoroughly what PRS and ARMIDILO-S is, who created these, and how they influence Reside. As a habilitative program, Reside Residential Care's program, indeed, stems from [...]
Reside Residential Care was established to provide habilitative services—that is, to teach independent living and social skills—to Developmentally and Intellectually Disabled adults. We focus strongly on what people are capable of, building confidence, and enhancing and adding to the skills that our clients have. Of course, the individuals we support vary greatly from person to person. [...]
At Reside, we strive to work with our clients in a way that encourages a positive perspective of life and themselves, independence, and a sense of individuality. Like anyone else, these can be difficult things to build on. Everyone struggles with these at some point in their lives, and sometimes it takes years for us to [...]