Facility Evaluation Report

Licensing Program Analyst (LPA) Kristin Kontilis conducted an unannounced annual required visit. LPA met and toured the facility with Micaela McGee, Assistant Supervisor, Direct Support Professional, James Abrokwah, Program Manager, and Michele LaGrange, Case Manager/Direct Care Professional.

The facility location is in a rural area of the community. The facility is located in a multi-use building. The facility hours are Monday through Friday, 9 am to 3:00 pm. The program site is clean, safe, sanitary, and in good repair.

The facility provides program activities on-campus and off-campus. The activities include outings to art classes, museums, parks, retail businesses, libraries, animal shelters, bowling, and local eateries. Additional activities include trips to areas outside the community, greenhouse planting and growing, creating ceramic pots for retail, baking, reading and writing skill building, karaoke, meditation, communication skill building, and board games. The facility participates in Positive Behavior Reinforcement Intervention and Support, which is a program that focuses on an individual’s sense of control and self-government by making decisions in a structured meeting format

The facility floor plan consists of two offices, four restrooms, two kitchens, two common areas, a computer room, a sensory room, a gym room, a storage area for personal belongings.

Sharps are kept in locked drawers in the kitchens with no access to participants. Participants bring their own lunches or return to their residence for their noontime meal. The facility provides a morning and afternoon snack for all the participants.

The First Aid kit was observed to be complete. LPA observed four fire extinguishers with last inspection conducted on 1/25/2024.

Centrally stored medications are inaccessible t and kept to participants and are kept n a locked box in a locked cabinet in the locked medication room.