Services

Customer Satisfaction Survey 2011

Stakeholder Satisfaction Survey 2011

Core Services

Community Living Options

Options provides services to more than 200 children and adults with disabilities through a variety of residential settings.  These services are designed so that individuals live where and with whom they want.  Services are provided in the individual's home or in one of our two group homes.

Employment Options

Options supports individuals with disabilities to find and keep jobs in their communities.  Using a team approach, the agency provides job-seeking skills, job placement, long-term career development services and ongoing support.  Options assists employers in meeting their ongoing workforce needs by matching people to jobs.

Continuing Education Options

Continuing Education Options (CEO) is a group community-based habilitation service that provides people with disabilities opportunities to make choices, create a community presence, and develop friendships.  CEO offers some of these daily activities: cooking, swimming, music, touring, walking, arts and crafts, movies, going to lunch, health and safety, computers, and more. CEO can supplement other services in which Options customers participate, such as Employment or Community Living. 

Housing Options

In July 2007, Options secured funding from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis and the City of Bloomington Community Development Block Grant.  Together with contributions and financing from Monroe Bank, Options was able to purchase and rehabilitate 12 apartments on the south side of Bloomington.  According to Indiana's 2006 Consolidated Plan, people with disabilities are more likely than the general public to encounter difficulties with housing.  Housing Options aims to address this need by providing affordable and accessible housing choices.

Click here to view pictures of Covey Lane properties. 

Each adult applicant over 18 years of age will need to complete a separate application. A nonrefundable $15.00 application fee will also be charged per each adult applicant. We accept cash, checks, Visa or MasterCard. Please make checks payable to “Options.” Thank you! Cindy Fleetwood, Housing Options Manager

Click here for Covey Lane housing application.

Technology Options

Currently in development, Options is working with Night Owl Support Systems to establish a monitoring and response service provided by professional staff between the hours of 9:00pm to 7:00am to individuals living in the community.  Using cellular and web-based technology, the service delivers nontraditional residential support, resulting in increased or maintained independence.  More than just a push button support system, Technology Options builds long-term relationships with each participant, allowing for a familiarity with the monitors and the responding staff.

Support Services

Behavior Support

Options defines Behavior Support as training, supervision, or assistance in the expression of emotions and desires, and assertiveness or acquisition of socially appropriate behaviors.  This service also includes training and consultation with staff, family members, roommates and others.

Health Care Coordination

Health Care Coordination provides a medical professional to coordinate health care services.  The service ensures that everyone who provides medical services to a customer are informed about that person's unique support needs.  Options staff works with the individual and his or her team to promote and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Respite

Respite refers to short-term, temporary support to people with disabilities so that their families can take a break from the daily routine of care giving.  Raising a child with disabilities can be a very rewarding experience, yet it can also be a very exhausting task.  When a parent becomes consumed and overwhelmed with caring for their special child, the child's well-being may be at risk as well as the parent's.  Respite service staff work with the family to lessen the pressures that may lead to institutionalization, divorce, neglect, or child abuse.