To ensure success for participants joining this program, LDA encourages residents to already possess a degree of basic skills, including cooking, cleaning, basic banking knowledge, etc. Individuals should be able to take their medications independently. Residents are required to have a daily schedule of meaningful daily activity that may include work, day programming, volunteering or attending classes. Living costs are subsidized by LDA, and residents contribute toward monthly expenses based on their ability to pay. This residential alternative gives individuals an opportunity to live in private homes with trained and certified individuals or families who live in the community.
Providers receive a monthly stipend to cover their expenses and services they provide.
Staff are available to give providers and consumers guidance, support and assistance. Children may also live in this program if determined eligible. Providers can be single or married, male or female, and must be over the age of 21. They may live in an apartment or house, alone or with their children. They must have earned income through employment.