What We Do
Community Engagement

Helping People to Learn, Grow & Build the Lives They Want Within Their Communities

Living your best life includes enjoying rich experiences, everything from cultivating your interests and hobbies to cherishing moments with loved ones and giving back to others. This includes employment, education, and cultural enrichment, as well as the chance to develop the relationships that will support them along the way. Community Engagement focuses on helping people through healthy social interaction, learning basic life skills, and creating a fully integrated environment. Our Maryland community is a beautiful one, and the people at Providence are encouraged to be an active part of it in order to create a better, happier future for themselves.

“At Providence, we believe that community is meant for every person.”
- Karen Adams-Gilchrist, Providence President and CEO

Community Based Day Supports Include:

  1. Discovering each person’s needs and goals for their life.
  2. Finding a natural match between employment and other community opportunities with individual interests and abilities.
  3. Building the skills needed to reach community goals.
  4. Providing ongoing mentorship for people in community jobs.
  5. Forging the community partnerships to create and expand opportunities for everyone we support.

Community Development Services (CDS)

Community Development Services (CDS) provide the person with development and maintenance of skills related to community membership through engagement in community-based activities. It includes support services that enable the person to learn, develop, and maintain general skills related to people in the community.

Promoting positive growth and developing general skills and social supports necessary to gain, retain, or advance

  1. Competitive integrated employment opportunities
  2. Learning socially acceptable behavior
  3. Learning self-advocacy skills
  4. Building and strengthening relationships with others in local community
  5. Services are individualized (Person Driven)
  6. Groups include up to 4 people and is based on geography and interest

Community-based activities under this service will provide the person access and supports to engage in community-based activities for development, acquisition, and maintenance of skills to increase the person’s independence related to community integration.

Community Development Services may include participation in the following activities:

  1. Engaging in activities that facilitate and promote integration and inclusion of a person in their chosen community, including identifying a path to employment for people we support
  2. Participation and travel to and from various community activities (parks, museums, libraries, malls, gyms, etc.)
  3. Participating in self-advocacy classes and activities
  4. Participating inmultitude of activities (arts/crafts, health education, exercise, music, dining, etc.)
  5. Volunteering

Day Habilitation

Day Habilitation services provide a person with development and maintenance of skills related to activities of daily living and socialization.

Opportunities for community exploration, inclusion and integration are based upon the person’s current, emerging and newly discovered interests and preferences.

Day Habilitation services may include participation in the following regularly scheduled meaningful activities. The activities shall support the acquisition of new skills as well as support of self-determination, the development of relationships, community integration, exploration and community contribution while maintaining safe practices.

Activities include but is not limited to:

  1. Learning general skills that can be used to do the type of work the person is interested in
  2. Customized 6 hours of meaningful activities
  3. Participating in self-advocacy classes/activities
  4. Participating in local and community events and activities (library, mall, park, movies, bowling, zoo, etc.)
  5. Volunteering
  6. Training and supports designed to maintain abilities and to prevent or slow down loss of skills for people with declining conditions
  7. Hands on learning activities that occur on site and in the community
  8. Independent Living Skills
  9. Transportation
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