Various community-based support and residential services may be provided through GVIEN-Inc which are approved and funded by the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disability and Social Office to help children and adults live with their family or in their community, and to promote independence and interdependence. Community agencies may offer or co-ordinate some combination of the following services:

 

• Assessment Services that provide clinical assessments of children referred to a community agency because of an apparent developmental disability.

 

• Parent Relief, that provides for alternative care of children and adults with developmental disabilities so parents can have temporary relief from caring for their children.

 

• Family Support Program that provides advice, assistance and case management services, as well as advocacy for children who are developmentally disabled and their parents.

 

• Supported Independent Living Program that provides individualized supervision and assistance for adults with developmental disabilities living in the community.

 

• Infant Development Programs that support and train parents of infants with developmental disabilities (up to age 2) to stimulate their children so they can reach their developmental potential.

 

• Special Services at Home Program, funding (individualized) supports and services for children and adults with developmental disabilities, and for children with physical disabilities, where these supports and services are not available in the community, so they can live at home with their families.

 

• Family home Program, funding and supporting families willing to share their homes with up to two children or adults with developmental disabilities.

 

• Group Homes, providing residential accommodation in community settings staffed and operated by non-profit community agencies and life-skills training and supports to children and adults with developmental disabilities.

 

• Life skills Program, helping adults with developmental disabilities gain the skills they need to live independently. These skills include: grooming, banking, budgeting, using public transit and literacy.

 

• Adult Protective Services Program, assisting adults with a disability, and no significant means of social support, to live independently.

 

• Sheltered Workshops helping adults capable of entering the competitive labor market by providing assessment, vocational training and other supports. They also offer non-vocational services, such as activities of daily living, and respite for families where the adult still lives at home.