Anyone live in a Group Home?

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I have been to social security, department of health, and kitsap mental health

Nobody seems to know how to get into a state sponsored group home as an adult....

But I did find several online but i don't like to put sensitive information online.

Anyways...any adults living in a group home? How do you like it?
and how did you become a resident of the group home?

I prefer to live alone. It is far less stressful, and much more peaceful for me. However, not every adult on the spectrum wants to live alone, and there are some who are not able to, either. I hope you find what you are looking for, and I hope it works out good for you. Good luck!

I'm 27 and I have yet to live alone. I lived with my mom until I was 22. I joined the ariforce and was discharged 3 month later after a mental breakdown. Moved in with friends when I got back and have been living with them ever since.
For me, the idea of living alone is kinda scary.

Try calling whatever your states version of Department of Children and Family Services is. Child Protective Services kind of place, and ask for Adult Services. A social worker there should be able to help you.

Why do you want to live in a group home? I could easily be wrong, but I'd imagine that anyone who is high functioning enough to be able to contact those agencies and jump through those hoops for them would be too high functioning to qualify for a group home.

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well i live with my parents but my dad has been verbally abusive since i was a child and though it has decreased a lot as i've gotten older being around my dad seems to be negative on my mental state. I would like to live by myself but I dont have any way of living on my own...so i thought a group home might be good place to begin on my own though probably a dumb idea.

I'm not an expert but I do work as a Temp for DDD ( Division of Developmental Disabilities). From what I know of Group homes they are usually reserved for the lower functioning groups in society and that means for those on the lower functioning side of the Autism spectrum. I know here in New jersey their are Supervised apartments and I saw one recently designed for those specifically with Aspergers/HFA. I would check first with the State agency that deals with disabilities, usually a division under DHS guidance.

Group homes are pretty much a form of residential skid row; they are full of LFs, sociopaths, and people that will steal from you or worse. The people who run them charge above the market rate to rent a single room to have you stuck sharing a room. There are 2 different types of group home - board-and-care where they cook your meals, do your laundry and administer meds, then there is room-and-board where you only get meals. I doubt the ability to get internet access at many of these places. I know about these places from gravitating to residents of the ones in my neighborhood.

I have 1 friend that moved into an apt. complex that was mostly people with deficiencies who were capable on some level of independent living; a totally private entity that the original landlord was a parent of such a type person who wanted to see to it that more people like that could live in a safe place

I have a dream of sorts to gather 3 or 4 of the best aspies locally and start a creative multimedia shopspace compound, or a moped house, whichever comes first

Some sort of group home has been built right behind my house. I'm not sure what it's going to be for, a lot of people were hearing it might be for those just out of jail, or rehab, but now we know it's for handicapped people. I don't know what kind of handicap they are talking about but I don't see ramps or anything so I'm not thinking it's going to be for people with mobility problems.

They haven't gotten the permits right yet, nor have they landscaped the area, it's all still nothing but mud, and maybe when they open I might see about getting a job there. Maybe volunteering. I don't know how it will effect my low tolerance for frustration though, so I might volunteer before I try and get a job there.

I'll certainly keep everyone posted when it opens about what it's about and like, etc.

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They usually engender themselves as 'sober living' or 'assisted independent living' to smooth any feathers that might be potentially ruffled. Placing 6 residents in a 4 bedroom home brings in at least double the mortgage payment, there are no background checks and often there is no contractual lease, a sex offender could easily find a place to stay there, and only their PO would know it, and by the time the Megan's Law sites are updated they've moved on to other locales

Rereading post it's pretty unusual for a group home to be built, normally they infiltrate existing neighborhoods setting up shop in a cheaply acquired property

Avoid a group home. I lived in one and only lasted 6 weeks. It was hell. The police and paramedics were regular visitors. Nearly all the residents, except for me and my roommate, were using drugs, ODing, cutting, and stealing. When I was accepted, I was not warned about any of this. Absolute culture shock!

If you are able to look after yourself but need some support, look into independent housing programs for people with disabilities.