Individual Community Living Support for staying in your own place

Housing and community, not one or the other

It is possible to keep someone housed and still leave them stranded: technically living independently, functionally cut off from everything outside the front door. Individual Community Living Support treats the housing and the community participation as one goal, because a life confined to one apartment is not independence.

Support is built around the practical things that determine whether both hold: managing a lease and a budget, keeping the household running, getting to appointments, and being able to reach the places and people that matter.

Flexible by design

ICLS is deliberately flexible because the barriers vary so much. For one person the obstacle is transportation. For another it is organizing bills and paperwork before something gets shut off. For a third it is the confidence to go somewhere new alone.

Our approach is to identify the specific things that would cause this housing situation to fail, then support those directly. Support that ignores the actual failure point is wasted hours.

What ICLS can include

Support is adjusted as skills grow and circumstances change.

• ✓ Support maintaining a household and meeting lease obligations
• ✓ Help with budgeting, bills, mail, and household paperwork
• ✓ Assistance with shopping, meals, and daily routines
• ✓ Support getting to appointments and community destinations
• ✓ Building comfort and routine in community settings
• ✓ Coordination with landlords, case managers, and community programs
• ✓ Problem-solving when something threatens the living situation

Who this service is for

• ✓ Adults with disabilities living in their own home or apartment
• ✓ People moving out of a facility into community housing
• ✓ Adults whose housing has been at risk for practical, solvable reasons
• ✓ Anyone who is housed but effectively isolated