Shared Living Supports

Shared Living Supports provide coordination, oversight and monitoring of Host Homes for participants. Shared Living Supports:

  1. Recruit Host Home providers,
  2. Facilitate recruitment and matching services of participants and Host Homes based on the participant’s preferences and choice,
  3. Oversee quality management and monitoring compliance with program requirements once the arrangement is established; and
  4. Provide compensation to Host Home providers for additional household costs incurred as a result of participant expenses. Shared Living Supports emphasize the long-term sharing of lives, forming of caring households, and close personal relationships between a participant and the Host Home.

The primary responsibility of a Host Home is to make a real home for a participant in which he or she has;

  1. A satisfying and meaningful relationship,
  2. Is safe and free from harm and
  3. Has the support that he or she needs to take risks and to work and participate in community activities. The Host Home is a mutually agreed upon arrangement in which a couple or a family in the community share their home and the hosts and the participants share life’s experiences.