Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities
Resources for Human Development has been serving adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities and helping them lead more fulfilling lives since 1972, when it established the Lower Merion Vocational Training Center.
Today, RHD offers dozens of programs, both daylong and residential services, that include a variety of effective and innovative approaches, such as creative arts therapies, the companion model and more. Community-based programs such as Lifesharing and Evergreen are specifically tailored to adults and children with autism and related behaviors, supporting their ability to develop life skills and achieve independence.
RHD specializes in creating solutions to a wide variety of community challenges. RHD’s Mainstay services, for example, provide supervised community-based residential program designed to provide a range of established and innovative rehabilitation strategies for adults with developmental disabilities and problematic sexual behaviors who are in need of clinical/forensic treatment. The program focuses on community and personal safety, accountability, competence, least restrictive alternative, normalization, due process and control.
Employee of the year
Ella, a client at RHD DeFuniak Springs, is honored for excelling at her job at a local hospital.
At the center of each program is RHD’s belief that people of all abilities are of equal worth, deserving of respect and dignity. RHD is always looking for better ways to help our partners live more fulfilling and independent lives. Take advantage of our unique, innovative approach to human services, and put our experience and enthusiasm to work for you.
For more information:
- Tamika Curry, PhD, RN
- Acting Chief Operations Officer
- [email protected]
Programs
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Iowa
- Louisiana
- Massachusetts
- Missouri
- New Jersey
- North Carolina
- Pennsylvania
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
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Adesha Village
Adesha Village is a therapeutic community providing personalized residential services, behavior support, community participation support, systematic skill-building, and life sharing to adults with special mental health needs and intellectual/developmental differences.
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BLOOM
BLOOM (Building of Lasting Opportunities for an Optimistic Mindset) is a community-based program providing comprehensive residential and day services in staffed homes. The program was created to support adults with …
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Beyond Boundaries
Beyond Boundaries provides community based living arrangements for individuals who have both intellectual/developmental disabilities (I/DD) and mental health challenges. All residents are encouraged to function as independently as possible by …
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Blank Canvas Studios
Blank Canvas Studios is a creative arts program for individuals with developmental disabilities, providing people of all ability levels the opportunity to create and be celebrated for their very special …
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Center for Creative Works
The Center for Creative Works (CCW) is a progressive art studio focused on professional development and representation of neurodivergent artists. CCW supports our artists to gain social capital through professional, …
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Choices Delaware
Choices provides a wide range of residential options, non-traditional day programming, consultative nursing and behavioral services and other support services to support individuals with developmental and other disabilities achieve their personal …
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Community Passages
Community Passages is a community-based residential program designed to provide a homelike environment for individuals with developmental disabilities and dual diagnoses, many of whom present significantly challenging behaviors and most …
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Evergreen
Evergreen is a community-based program providing comprehensive residential and day services in staffed homes. The program was created to support adults with autism, dual diagnoses of intellectual disabilities and mental …
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Fine Line Studios
Fine Line Studios offers adults with disabilities an outlet for unbridled creativity and self-expression through visual arts, music, and community involvement. We provide individuals with the tools and materials to …
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Gaining Respect and Opportunity with Teaching and Hope (GROWTH)
GROWTH (Gaining Respect & Opportunities with Teaching and Hope) CPS (Community Participation Supports) provides each participant with the opportunity to achieve their personally identified goals for community participation in a …
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Genesis
Genesis provides community-based living arrangements for people with developmental disabilities, with a focus on delivering specialized supports around individuals’ physical health care needs using a comprehensive wellness plan. Residents are …
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Harmony
RHD Harmony (originally Concepts) has served individuals with intellectual disabilities in traditional CLA residential settings in the Philadelphia area since 1988. The foundation of our success is our commitment to …
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IDEATE
The mission of IDEATE is to support our clients to break the cycle of poverty by providing highly vulnerable and underserved individuals person-tailored pathways to careers using technology and community …
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Imagine That!
Imagine That! is an innovative creative arts studio for people with intellectual disabilities. We offer creativity-based healing and learning opportunities for artists of all abilities, empowering people to realize their …
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Kansas City Residential/Office Administration
RHD Missouri’s Residential Program meets clients’ needs with respect and dignity and places a premium on quality of life. We offer shared living service options that include companion and host …
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Mainstay Delaware
Mainstay Delaware provides quality residential services, non-traditional day programming, consultative nursing and behavioral services and other support services to support individuals with developmental and other disabilities achieve their personal goals by expanding …
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Mainstay Philadelphia
Supervised community-based residential program designed to provide a range of established and innovative rehabilitation strategies for adults with developmental disabilities. The program focuses on community and personal safety, accountability, competence, …
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Mainstay United
Mainstay United offers a range of residential, behavioral, and independent living skills support, within a rehabilitative model, for individuals with intellectual disabilities. The program specializes in helping people who have …
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Mainstay Western PA
Supervised community-based residential program designed to provide a range of established and innovative rehabilitation strategies for adults with developmental disabilities. The program focuses on community and personal safety, accountability, competence, …
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Outside The Lines Studio
Outside the Lines (OTL) is an alternative, arts-based day program for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, dual diagnoses, and autism spectrum disorder. OTL emphasizes person-centered planning and trauma-informed care …
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RHD Boston
RHD Boston provides residential, day and individual supports for men and women with developmental disabilities, a dual diagnoses of mental illness and/or physical disabilities. The program focuses on a person-centered …
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RHD Connecticut
RHD Connecticut provides residential community living arrangements, day services, and individual habilitative supports to people who have developmental disabilities in the West and South regions in Connecticut. Currently RHD CT …
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RHD DeFuniak Springs
RHD DeFuniak Springs is a community-based clubhouse model and day program serving adults with developmental disabilities. Includes training in activities of daily living, pre-vocational skills, job exploration, volunteer services, work …
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RHD Lifesharing
RHD Lifesharing program offers community-based residential services, unlicensed home & community habilitation, and respite services for people with intellectual developmental disabilities and/or autism. Host families share their homes and life …
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RHD Shared Living
Resources for Human Development’s Shared Living program develops housing and community-based support services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The Shared Living provider is a community-based, family-oriented home that offers …
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RHD South Dakota
RHD South Dakota delivers person-centered case management services to people with intellectual disabilities, identifying resources and connecting people to those resources that are “Important To, and Important For” them. Through …
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Residential Service Systems (RSS)
RSS provides supervised living (CLA) and supported living (SLA), shared housing, individual home ownership, education, training, and clinical treatment services for men and women with intellectual and developmental disabilities throughout …
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Shining Through
RHD Shining Through is a multi-faceted community-based residential program that provides services to adults diagnosed with behavioral health challenges and intellectual and developmental disabilities living in the community. The program …
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St. Louis Residential/Office Administration
RHD Missouri’s Residential Program meets clients’ needs with respect and dignity and places a premium on quality of life. We offer shared living service options that include companion and host …
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Urban Youth Collaborative Program
The Urban Youth Collaborative Program (UYCP) places interns in provider agencies, state-operated programs, and developmental centers across the Commonwealth in full-time summer jobs supporting individuals with intellectual disabilities. This program …
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