Living Unified began with families who love someone with special needs — and who couldn't find a place for that person to live a full life once they could no longer provide care themselves.
Most housing options for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities are designed around a single service — a group home, a day program, a waitlist for a waitlist. Families are left stitching together care across a dozen providers, with no guarantee that any of it will still be there in ten or twenty years.
Living Unified takes a different approach. We are developing a voluntary housing option with coordinated supports. Residents retain control over where they live, which providers they use, where they work, how they spend their time and whether they participate in faith activities.
At LIVING UNIFIED, every resident directs a person-centered plan reflecting their own goals, strengths, preferences and support needs, including spiritual support only when the resident chooses it.
That means ordinary homes with privacy and tenancy protections, resident-chosen daily schedules, access to competitive integrated employment, and optional spiritual supports selected by each resident. A community built around the whole person, not just their diagnosis.
"We're not building housing. We're building a place where our residents can live, work, worship, and belong — for as long as they live."
Unlike many programs that end at a certain age, Living Unified is designed as a long-term or lifelong home residents may choose, while preserving each person's right to move, change service providers or select another community option.
Care that treats independence and choice as the goal, not a risk to be managed.
Voluntary employment supports shaped by each resident's goals, including access to competitive integrated jobs throughout the greater community and appropriately paid work at Living Unified.
A faith-based community open to people of every faith and no faith, where friendship and belonging are part of the design. Religious participation is voluntary and never affects eligibility, housing, services, employment or community access.
Living Unified is being built for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities — and for the parents, siblings, and caregivers who need to know there's a good answer to "what happens next."
We're currently in our founding phase: finalizing plans, securing land, and building the partnerships and funding that will let us break ground.
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