Life Sharing

About Life Sharing

Life Sharing provides support and guidance for individuals with disabilities in need of a home alternative AND for families providing care for their loved ones at home. Here are the two different types of Life Sharing opportunities:

Matched Life Sharing

This program supports families who need to place their loved ones in surrogate care. The Matched Life Sharing program carefully matches a person who needs supervised living with a provider family that receives a tax-exempt stipend to provide ongoing care in their home. Providers can be families, committed couples, or a single person.

Individuals receive daily life skills instruction, therapies if needed, and opportunities to join their community. They grow and thrive in a home environment as part of a caring family. Life Sharing providers offer not just a place to live, but full family participation and community inclusion. They find their lives enriched by caring for individuals with disabilities in their homes.

Life Sharing providers do not replace or supersede the participant’s biological family. Life Sharing opens the door to new and enriching relationships with the provider family while maintaining family ties. When family members cannot care for a loved one at home but aren’t sure a group residence is the right choice, Life Sharing is a secure and life-enhancing option.

Family Life Sharing

The Family Life Sharing program assists families who are already taking care of their loved one with a disability in the family home. Family Life Sharing provides financial support for qualifying families, which include:  Parents, Step-Parents, Grandparents, Siblings, Aunt, Uncle, etc.

We Offer:

Free Training, Agency Support & Paid Monthly Stipend

Contact EHCA to learn more about Life Sharing’s Family home alternative or to learn more about how to become a Life Sharing Matched provider. Contact Heather Marinelli, EHCA Director of Life Sharing, for more information.

Heather.marinelli@ehca.org

814.315.1747

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