Creative Living

Creative Living is a nonprofit organization encouraging independent living for adults with severe physical disabilities by providing wheelchair accessible housing and assistance, and by creating a supportive environment for people to learn, work, live and contribute to the community. Creative Living operates two apartment complexes for physically disabled individuals while they attend a community college, a four-year university, technical school, or vocational training.

The feature that distinguishes Creative Living from any other similar facility in the country is its Resident Assistant Program. Twenty-five to thirty young men and women, mostly college students, work as assistants around the clock seven days a week. They are "on call" through an intercom system that connects each apartment to the lobby, and they help residents with incidentals and emergencies when their own personal care attendants are not available. Duties may range from removing a jacket to locking a door or turning them in their beds at night. Personal attendants are hired by each resident to handle personal hygiene and daily routines, but resident assistants often lend a hand when personal attendants need help with lifting a resident from bed to chair.

The Resident Assistant Program, while providing an invaluable service to the residents, makes up nearly one third of CL's annual operating budget - over $234,000 a year. Consequently, financial support is always needed to help defray these costs.

Our donation of 5,000 will be directed to the Resident Assistant Program.

To learn more about Creative Living and the Resident Assistant Program, click here.