When I talk about CLO, the word 'individual' keeps coming up; the focus is on Anna as an individual. With Supported Living, Anna's orientation to life in her community is very confident. She knows that she belongs. She wants to contribute.
-Bonnie, Anna's mother
-Bonnie, Anna's mother
About Us: Mission
Creative Living Options is committed to enhancing the quality of life for persons with developmental disabilities, as well as their personal satisfaction with their services, through the provision of superior individualized supports and services provided in each person's home and community. Choice, individual rights, freedom to design one's own life, and individualized supports are at the
core of CLO's values and philosophies.
Philosophy and Values
Creative Living Options embraces the philosophy that every person with a disability has the right to an individualized lifestyle, with the supports necessary to fully participate in community life as he or she desires. CLO was founded on the principle that no one should be forced to live separate from his or her community in a congregate setting. Under CLO’s philosophy, everyone has the right to live in a home of his or her choice and control that home through lease or ownership. CLO operates on the belief that the nature or severity of disability should not dictate where a person lives or in which activities a person participates.Goals
• To assist each person in choosing and controlling his or her home
• To provide supports and services that will assist each person in living
the life that he or she desires
• To empower each person to reach his or her own personal goals
• To enable each person to associate with whom he or she desires
• To promote learning life skills in order to reach ever greater levels
of independence
• To facilitate each person’s participation in community life
to the extent that he or she desires
• To widen each person’s circle of support
