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COMMUNITY BASED supported HOUSING

The program of Community Based Supported Housing offers adult persons with intellectual disabilities accommodation in apartments in the community and provides such persons with the support and help they need in order to live as independently as possible.

For adult persons with intellectual disabilities community based supported housing is an alternative to institutionalization. Life stories

This program started in 1997 in Zagreb with our first two deinstitutionalized adult persons with intellectual disabilities who shared an apartment Today almost 90 people have left the institution and are living in the community with our support.

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The following are the goals of the program of community based supported housing:

Community based housing in apartments in accordance with the choices of the client (1-5 persons share an apartment) with the degree of needed support

Providing assistance and improving the competence of clients in day- to-day activities and situations (handling money responsibly, keeping the apartment tidy, taking care of their clothes and laundry, acquiring and preparing food, taking care of their appearance and their health, use of the public transportation system, development of positive relationships among the people sharing the same apartment).

Increasing the level of competence of the clients by enabling them to take part in the life of the local community (building a circle of support, involvement in work, cultural, recreational, sport or religious activities offered by the local community, inclusion in work activities in the private and state sector).



	. COMMUNITY BASED supported HOUSING The program of Community Based Supported Housing offers adult persons with intellectual disabilities accommodation in apartments in the community and provides such persons with the support and help they need in order to live as independently as possible. For adult persons with intellectual disabilities community based supported housing is an alternative to institutionalization. Life stories This program started in 1997 in Zagreb with our first two deinstitutionalized adult persons with intellectual disabilities who shared an apartment Today almost 90 people have left the institution and are living in the community with our support. Find out more The following are the goals of the program of community based supported housing: Community based housing in apartments in accordance with the choices of the client (1-5 persons share an apartment) with the degree of needed support Providing assistance and improving the competence of clients in day- to-day activities and situations (handling money responsibly, keeping the apartment tidy, taking care of their clothes and laundry, acquiring and preparing food, taking care of their appearance and their health, use of the public transportation system, development of positive relationships among the people sharing the same apartment). Increasing the level of competence of the clients by enabling them to take part in the life of the local community (building a circle of support, involvement in work, cultural, recreational, sport or religious activities offered by the local community, inclusion in work activities in the private and state sector).