Association For Indpndnt Living

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Apr 7th, 2019

Would recommend not going here. You should if possible keep your children with you. This is a place for special needs people and when I was there they would send us to a local gym/ pool where special needs people are for certain times of the day. they are seriously messed up or cant talk, but some of them are somewhat able but you can tell from just looking at them their body/mind is not normal. Every day they have us to wake up around a certain time and have a meeting where we have a small speech or chant that we all repeat then we have a daily journal we type on the computers. They make us clean after each other and keep the place practically spotless or as best as possible. Most of the staff is nice. Most of the main staff, everyone except for Sarah, Tristen, and I think one of the older ladies in her 40s or 50s was African American. Nadia is the main person running the show And I think she is in her mid 20s. For whatever reason most of the people in level 1 didnt like the guy Richard. I think because he was more stern or on you if you did something wrong like as if he was in the military or something. At the end of my time there I was able to get to know him better and finally stayed downstairs instead of being on my phone all the time upstairs. We had talked and I began to like him and be more comfortable. All the staff rotate and change hours. Its mainly Richard that does the night shift and usually watches TV and he didnt like it when I would have a mid night snack. They have cameras in the corners by the stairs for something that happened a while ago. Basically there are times to eat during the day and your only allowed to eat so much and they dont buy the best food but its decent. I think the best times I had besides the days to leaving was having a small party. While I was there I figured that since they didnt let us use their WiFi but we were able to use our phones I could turn my phone every night as a hotspot and use my kindle for internet without them ever come up to our room. Basically they never come upstairs to our rooms without a pre warning or announcement usually. Two of the men up stairs had a Xbox and a PS4 and TV but we were not allowed to use them so I dont know if they have changed the rules. I just had a small Nintendo 2DS with Pokemon that I ended up giving to my Roomate after I left. It was kind of funny how my room mates sometimes wiped out their balls some times. My room mate went to the hosbital school that we went to as a group and would take all of their cheap condoms they had in the bathrooms for free. I was able to tell them I was going places like I would give an excuse to go to the bank and I would go to the bank and also go to the UPS office to get anything I wanted. I you explore the area you will realize that the main building where Sarahs office is located is level 1. Basically the mostly normal people that have been there usually less than two years. Level 2 is people in the small apartment areas on the left side where you get your own room kinda but you need to have a constant job and I think you need to start paying for things like bills and being a bit more responsible but its more likely that the people there are like level 2, as in normal or they might have some problems. They have been there I think for 2-7 years. I have no idea this is just a guess everything is up to the staff if they think your ready to go to level 2 and then down the road there is level 3 ina complet different building where some people are either a lot older like 30s-50s I think and have been in the program and dont care about moving out anymore and moving on with their life. I think those are the people that have been there for 10+ years, not sure like I said. I think this place costed my mom $1,300 to $1,500 a month. When you come here they did not search my bags. If you want to get kicked out of here, just buy a weapon, even if its plastic..... like how I did. I would write more but google wont let me.....
Apr 16th, 2020