Sentence examples for community residences from inspiring English sources

The aim of the current study was to investigate the effectiveness of a novel and complex intervention to improve diet and physical activity, targeting both caregivers and residents, in community residences for people with ID.

In Sweden, adults with intellectual disabilities often live in community residences where the staff has insufficient education regarding the special health needs of residents.

Years before, the state had been looking to sell or transform 33 hospitals because it had changed its approach to treating people with mental illness and wanted more patients to live on their own in community residences.

By then, New York State had taken notice of all the mentally ill being discharged from hospitals and winding up homeless on the streets, and was paying for the first supervised community residences and apartment programs.

The Willowbrook lawsuit led to a landmark legal settlement that required the state to move thousands of mentally retarded people to small community residences, some with 10 beds or less.

To advocates for the mentally ill, the big for-profit adult homes are one of the more disturbing legacies of the state's effort to empty its mental hospitals and place the mentally ill in community residences.

To our knowledge no interventions have been published targeting both staff and residents in the same community residence.

Harry established our first community residence and set the course for our future.

The groom's mother, who is retired, was an overnight counselor who assisted mentally disabled girls at the Keystone Community Residence in South Plainfield, N.J.

Mr. Gabriel had been the manager of the residence for a little more than a year, and before that he was the manager of a nonprofit community residence, Mr. Klingman said.

He has since resigned as community residence manager of the group home, said Roger Klingman, a spokesman for the State Office of Mental Health, which operates the Brooklyn hospital and the group home where the boys lived.