Adult Family Homes
Balance’s Adult Family Homes offer family-style living for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).
Balance owns eight Adult Family Homes (AFH) across Ozaukee County in Wisconsin. Balance currently has houses in Grafton, Saukville, and Port Washington. These homes are 2, 3, and 4-bedroom homes that function like tightly knit families but offer 24/7 staff supervision for the residents. Each resident has a private bedroom and shared living spaces just as a family does.
The goal of Balance’s Adult Family Homes is to create and maintain a home-like, family environment for adults with IDD. Balance creates an Individual Support Plan (ISP) around personal goals by working collaboratively with each resident, their family, and support teams.
Our residents are involved in determining their daily lives. This includes their social connections, meals, daily living skills, wellness, health, recreation, leisure, personal goals, and safety.
Residents who are not employed will typically spend their weekdays at Balance’s Adult Day Program from 8:30 am - 3:30 pm. The Day Program provides participants with daily activities and outings into the community while also providing time to socialize with their friends, peers, and staff. More information about Balance’s Adult Day Program can be found here.
Balance’s approach and success come from first understanding the individual’s abilities, dreams, desires, and needs. We create services to support them in all specific areas of need. We also work to enhance the community’s ability to embrace these individuals and recognize them as full, valued, contributing members of the community.
Balance strives to balance support and independence to best accommodate each resident.
Contact:
Phone: (262) 268-6811
Email: information@balanceinc.org
For pre-admission paperwork click here.
Parent Testimonials:
“We thought our daughter was a very happy person. Then she moved into her Balance Adult Family Home and she just blossomed. We have never seen our daughter happier. She loves having her own place and the independence that it brings”
– Parent of one of Balance’s AFH residents.
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Video: Adopt-a-Home
Adopt-a-Home Program
The Adopt-A-Home Program is designed to provide an opportunity to adopt one or more of our eight AFHs. This unique partnership helps Balance to ensure and provide a meaningful life that is safe, well-maintained, secure, and pleasurable for our residents. The Adopt-a-Home Program provides an opportunity to directly impact and enhance the quality of life of our residents. Physical environments are important in providing a sense of well-being and comfort. Our residents often need extra help and support for the houses they call home. We are committed to maintaining our Adult Family Homes consistent with the quality standards of their neighborhoods.
Our homes are warm, inviting, and clean. We use volunteers and staff to repair all we can. However, as a non-profit, there are limits to what we can accomplish. The homes continue to age and require updates for health, safety, and accessibility.
There exists a disparity in funding for adult family homes based on their profit status. For-profit homes are granted the ability to negotiate higher reimbursement rates for maintenance, whereas non-profit homes must rely on fundraising efforts to cover all necessary repairs.
There are two components of the Adopt-A-Home Program:
Volunteer Adopt-A-Home
Volunteer to help maintain the interior and exterior of one home.
Public recognition is provided for the organization that adopts each home.
Financial Adopt-A-Home
Each home will have a fund set up for the maintenance items that require skills such as carpentry, electrical, roofing, etc.
Money donated to the specific home will be entered as a restricted donation. Any expenses for that home will be deducted from that account, and a report on income into the fund and details on project expenses can be provided at any time to the donor.
Public recognition will be provided for all donors to the home fund.