RSSPID provides group home service for people with intellectual disabilities – an alternative to the institutional care. RSSPID provides services in three Community group homes – one for women, one for men with intellectual disabilities and one for both women and men with intellectual disabilities.
The capacity of Community group home ALEXANDRA is 6. A part of the women who live in the group home are from institutions. Some of them have lived for more than 20 years in social institutions. In the community group home there are also women with intellectual disabilities from Vidin region, who lived with their families before and their parents looked after them.
The institutionalization of these women was prevented. They will continue to live in the community where they are raised and will preserve contact with their parents and relatives. It also offers support to the families, which at present live an extremely hard and isolated life, caring after a person with intellectual disability.
The clients of the community group homes experience a life of quality and certainty. They have their own clothes, shoes, underwear. The building provides enough space and privacy is respected (which none of the residential institutions could offer).
Clients are trained in skills for independent living with the support of staff when necessary. They go shopping, cook and are responsible for the hygiene in the group home. In their free time they go for a walk, to the theatre, cinema, etc.
The community group home service provides a quality life to people with intellectual disabilities by providing supported services – day care, training and employment.
Support organizations: СОРЕ Foundation, Ireland, Open Society Foundation, Cooperating Dutch Foundations for Central and Eastern Europe and Real Life Options, Great Britain, Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary, Ireland.
