Life Sharing provides people with the opportunity to grow, learn, and pursue their goals in a family environment. Families or individual people invite a person with a disability to join their family, providing the person with a home, the opportunity to live more independently and participate meaningfully in family and community life.
Life Sharing providers can be an unrelated family member or individual, or a member of the person’s biological family. Once you become a provider, you will be actively involved in the person’s life, responsible for providing support based on the person’s person-directed support plan.
Life Sharing providers are actively involved in the person’s life. You would offer assistance, support, and guidance in:
In other words, Life Sharing providers help people live an everyday life.
To become a Life Sharing provider, you must: