In preparation for our April Transition Summit on housing, our January Informational Tours took us to the Meadows Intermediate Care Facility (ICF/DD) and Little City’s adult campus residential programs.
Meadows is a family owned and operated supportive living experience in Rolling Meadows for adults with disabilities. Opening in 1975, it is a 99-bed facility where residents share furnished rooms with private half-bathrooms. They offer 24-hour nursing care and are equipped to accept non-ambulatory residents. Meadows programs strive to promote independence through self-care and daily living skills. They also have both a resident employment program that offers vocational opportunities within the building and a Community Employment Service Department that assists residents with resumes, applications, interviewing skills and job coaching.
Thank you to Katie Shapiro for organizing our tour of Meadows. For more information, visit http://www.meadowsresidential.com
Our next stop was Little City in Palatine where we toured their on-campus adult residential options. We first visited their Community Living Facility (CLF) which offers dorm-like apartments where each resident has a private bedroom and bathroom and then a shared living area and kitchen. Residents who live in the CLF have access to 24/7 staff support while they work to build their independent living skills. We next toured the Supported Living Arrangement (SLA) program which features traditional apartments where individuals live alone or with a roommate. Residents in this program are mostly independent but receive help with things like budgeting, grocery shopping or exploring work options. Finally, we were given a glimpse of the Little City day program which offers participants a variety of vocational, recreational and enrichment activities.
Thank you to Tim Gavin for arranging our Little City residential tour and to Vincent Williams for showing us around the day program. More information about Little City services can be found at http://www.littlecity.org
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