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Causes: Developmentally Disabled Centers, Disabilities, Group Homes, Human Services, Job Training
Mission: Hi-hope service center cultivates community for adults with developmental disabilities by connecting them with integrated opportunities for learning, work and leisure.
Programs: Hi-hope's residential program provides 24 hour/day, 7 days/week supervision, supports and habilitative services to individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities. Hi-hope provides services in 5 homes located in residential areas of gwinnett county. Through services provided by hi-hope staff, residents are supported in living healthy, safe, productive and meaningful lives in the communities of their choosing. Relationships with family and friends as well as the developmental of social networks through volunteerism, artistic expression and meaningful community engagement are a focus of the program. In 2017, hi-hope supported 20 adults in this program.
community access services are provided for adults with developmental/intellectual disabilities to, through a structured framework of daily activities, learn new skills, create and maintain relationships with both disabled and non-disabled peers and live safe and healthy lives. Operating 5 days per week for 6 hours each day, the focus of hi-hope's group and individual community access services has been e3 - express, explore, engage. In this way, all participants are provided opportunities for and encouraged to express their individuality and emotions, explore new places, people and things and engage in a way that is meaningful to them, with the world around them. In 2017, hi-hope supported more than 120 adults in this program, providing them with the services needed for safety, and connecting them to their communities in meaningful ways.