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AUTISM AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES

AUTISM &
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES

Spurwink has the depth of resources and people needed to support healthy, engaged living for adults with autism and intellectual disabilities. There is no problem too big or person too small for us – we go the distance with our clients through every up and every down.

OUTPATIENT & COMMUNITY
SERVICES

RESIDENTIAL

OUTPATIENT &
COMMUNITY SERVICES

COMMUNITY CASE MANAGEMENT

Case Managers partner with consumers (and their guardians) to provide support, advocacy and assistance in achieving their goals.

OUTPATIENT THERAPY

Our Outpatient and Community Services are here to help adults receive the care they need while keeping life as normal as possible for them.

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With belief in the importance of self-determination, individual choice, and the dignity of risk, we work to assist consumers in developing, strengthening and maintaining connections with their natural supports and other significant relationships. Our goal is to increase or maintain a consumer’s ability to be a successful, contributing, and accepted member of his or her community. This includes access to opportunities for continuing education and/or meaningful employment, a place to call home, robust community involvement, and other components of a meaningful life.
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To achieve this, we coordinate our care both with the family’s input and with other programs and agencies. Your family’s participation is especially important to planning treatment and helping him or her to succeed.
Contact us to learn more.

COMMUNITY CASE MANAGEMENT

Case Managers partner with consumers (and their guardians) to provide support, advocacy and assistance in achieving their goals.

Learn More

With belief in the importance of self-determination, individual choice, and the dignity of risk, we work to assist consumers in developing, strengthening and maintaining connections with their natural supports and other significant relationships. Our goal is to increase or maintain a consumer’s ability to be a successful, contributing, and accepted member of his or her community. This includes access to opportunities for continuing education and/or meaningful employment, a place to call home, robust community involvement, and other components of a meaningful life.
Contact us to learn more.

COMMUNITY SUPPORT

Spurwink’s provides Community Support services to adults with Intellectual Disabilities…

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and autism in Limerick, North Yarmouth, Westbrook, in-town Portland.  Within a 1:3 staffing ratio, direct support professionals provide support so that individuals can engage in a variety of community activities.
Contact us to learn more.

OUTPATIENT THERAPY

Our Outpatient and Community Services are here to help adults receive the care they need while keeping life as normal as possible for them.

Learn More

To achieve this, we coordinate our care both with the family’s input and with other programs and agencies that are working with your child. Your family’s participation is especially important to planning your child’s or youth’s treatment and helping him or her to succeed.
Contact us to learn more.

RESIDENTIAL SERVICES

Spurwink provides residential services in York, Cumberland, and Androscoggin counties.  Our 22 residential homes provide staff support to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities from ages 18 to 95.  Typically, two to five individuals reside in one home, with either shift staff or live in couples providing support round the clock.

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In addition to group home settings, Spurwink provides home support in a ‘shared living’ model, wherein an individual receives individualized support in a provider’s home. For more intensive support, Spurwink has a 12 bed intermediate care/ nursing facility in Lewiston, and a 5 bed intermediate care / group facility in Parsonsfield.

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Residential services are staff support services provided within a home. Staff help individuals engage in their communities to assist with development of social relationships, to provide support with activities of daily living and personal care skills…

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and to teach, guide and offer support as needed in all other aspects of daily living, such as shopping, doing laundry, cooking and planning menus. Many of the Spurwink homes are staffed by ‘therapeutic couples’ who also live in the home a majority of the time. This staffing model has been very beneficial for individuals who require structure, predictability, consistency, and development of long-term relationships. Many of our couples have worked in our homes with the same individuals for over 5 years. Several couples have worked in our homes with the same individuals for over 10 years.

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