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- EIN 03-0314664
- (802) 280-1911
- Po Box 4409 White Riv Jct VT 05001-4409 USA
- www.gmssi.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Developmentally Disabled Centers, Disabilities, Human Services
Mission: Green mountain support services, inc. Strives to enable people with developmental disabilities to live safe, self-directed, and meaningful lives as accepted, valued and contributing members of their families and communities.
Programs: Green mountain support services, inc. Offers home and shared living supports ranging from strengthening family-based living options to offering a few scheduled hours per week in a consumer's home helping them develop life skills (such as cooking, housekeeping, and personal finance) to 24/7 contracted support in a shared living provider's home. This program focuses on ensuring the consumer's health and safety, maximizing independence, addressing individual preferences and needs, creating a supportive and inclusive home environnment, and enhancing quality of life.
green mountain support services offers community supports that enhance consumers' access to activities in the local community, promote independence, and enable participation in a broad range of experiences. Through this program, consumers develop independent living skills, establish and enhance friendships, volunteer in the community, pursue recreation and leisure activities, and get healthy through exercise and fitness programs.
the consumers served in the green mountain support services' service coordination program receive individualized support from a dedicated group of community inclusion facilitators who take responsibility for managing the entire array of services each consumer receives. Working together, staff, consumer and family develop an annual individualized service agreement that reflects each consumer's goals for the year and serves as the guide that drives schedule and services.