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Causes: Mental Health, Residential Mental Health Treatment
Mission: A private, non-profit independent living program where individuals age eighteen and over with autism spectrum disorders and related social disabilities are instructed on the life skills toward independent living. Approximately fifty individuals are served through the residential and community programs.
Programs: A 24-month residential transition program focusing on independent living, self-determination, college/vocation and social communication skills. They learn apartment management skills along with cooking, budgeting, grocery shopping and doing laundry. The program's close proximity to the university of arizona provides a rich array of benefits for chapel haven west students, including classes, involvement in the university's state-of-the-art salt center and job shadowing oppportunities.
upon graduation, chapel haven west students may choose to continue to live independently in their own apartments in the tucson area and receive community supports from chapel haven west. Chapel haven west offers classes, social communication therapy, structured weekend recreation trips and supported living services.
This organization's nonprofit status may have been revoked or it may have merged with another organization or ceased operations.