Residential Programs
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Community Residences (CRs)
and Individualized Residential
Alternatives (IRAs)
The AHRC Community Residence Program creates a
family-like environment for the men and women who live in
our homes. With the help of dedicated live-in houseparents,
we can maximize each individual's dignity, self worth, and
independence. Suffolk AHRC currently operates seventeen
homes in residential communities throughout the county.
Two to nine adults live in each AHRC community residence
(CR) and IRA. With the help of agency professionals, they
work together and form their own new family and support
systems. The men and women who live in our CRs and IRAs
value their adult independence, and respond to it with
increased responsibility and raised self-esteem. Our
community residence program maintains and enhances the
skills and abilities of its residents, giving them an opportunity
to shop, partake in leisure activities, and become part of
their community. CR Houseparents are assisted by a
weekend relief staff and peak hour support staff so that
each resident's individual needs can be met.
Suffolk AHRC Community Residences and Individualized
Residential Alternatives are located in:
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Bay Shore
Bohemia
Central Islip
Commack
Dix Hills
East Islip
Greenport
Huntington
Medford
Oakdale
Patchogue
Ridge
Riverhead
Southold
Westhampton
Westhampton Beach
Related Services
Individuals living in our CRs and IRAs benefit from social
workers and case managers who help to coordinate all of
their programmatic, living, and social needs. Residents also
receive all related services to which they are entitled
through their AHRC day program.
Intermediate Care Facilities (ICFs)
AHRC has a long history of providing the highest quality
clinical services within a loving, safe, and dignified home
environment. The agency's residential program provides
specialized residential opportunities to both children and
adults who have severe or profound developmental
disabilities. Each resident's distinctive therapeutic needs are
met within a homelike setting. Individuals living in an AHRC
Intermediate Care Facility (ICF) often have a severe
secondary medical component related to their
developmental disability, and therefore each ICF has a
full-time nursing staff.
Our residential staff is part of a multidisciplinary team that
helps to determine an individualized program for each ICF
resident. Once designed, the team members also assure
that the program is properly implemented. This promotes
independence in self-care, independent living,
communications, and the use of recreational and leisure
time.
Suffolk AHRC Intermediate Care Facilities are located in:
Centereach
Shoreham
Westhampton
Respite Program
AHRC Respite provides short-term care at some of AHRC's
community residences, and at its freestanding respite home
on the grounds of Flowerfield Gardens in Holtsville.
Circumstances for which families may require respite
services range from unexpected family crisis, to vacation
plans for the family, to the evaluation of a person's skills for
future community residence placement.
More information about our Respite program can be
obtained by contacting the Community Residence Office at
631-585-0100.
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