These houses provide accommodation for five to six people requiring varying levels of direct care staff support, some with sleep-over and others with active night support. The houses have separate bedrooms for each resident, large lounge rooms, shaded outdoor barbecue areas and landscaped gardens. Each house has been built to meet the particular needs of residents including those with physical disabilities and residents have been grouped compatibly. Familiar faces from the Pleasant Creek Centre are among staff also relocated and working in a community setting providing direct care support for residents. Staff numbers vary during the day to cope with morning and evening domestic chores and help get residents to day programs on time.
All residents take part in day programs and activities during the week, mostly full-time.
Other former Pleasant Creek Centre residents have moved to CRUs in other parts of Victoria to be closer to their families. They have settled in Wodonga, Benalla, Bulleen and Ararat. Houses have also been constructed in Bendigo, Morwell and Swan Hill for 17 people who will be taking advantage of family or historic links and friendship groupings in those regions. The final group of 23 residents to leave Pleasant Creek Centre moved into four new residences constructed in Stawell. These developments complete stages three and four of the Redevelopment Service Plan and were completed in December 1999.