Best Practices – Provider
Submission date: 3-3-08
Submitted by: Linda Bodo
Provider name: Center for Independence
APD Area: Suncoast Region (23)
Practice
Provider affords opportunities for all within their group homes to receive their own mail within the home. Provider has individual mailboxes in the home for each resident. One person gets the mail and then delivers it to each box. The boxes were designed with creativity by each person with their picture on it. They also deliver mail for the group home in its own box.
Who Benefits?
How? The person receiving services benefits because it gives them a sense of independence with checking their own mail, privacy, and a sense of home as we all check our mail in this fashion.