Residential Habilitation Services (ResHab)

ResHab workers assist the individual in achieving optimal independence in numerous areas, including (but not limited to): motor skills development, completing homework tasks, mastering household chores, achieving independence in the community, acquiring social skills, ordering from a restaurant menu or blowing bubbles in the swimming pool. ResHab is geared to suit the individual's particular needs and desires, and is frequently reevaluated to ensure consumer goals are being met.

“Having someone come into my home to work with Sara is a real help. Thanks so much for everything, we surely wouldn't manage without it!”

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Respite Service

Respite provides the family with relief from the obligation of ongoing day-to-day care. This service is offered either in the home of the person with a developmental disability or in another environment, depending on the desires of the family.

“It is such a relief to be able to leave my daughter with special needs in the care of a reliable person. Yedei Chesed helped me find a Respite worker and I am grateful to them for that. Now, I can find the time to take care of some of my other obligations”

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Environmental Modifications (E-MODS) And Adaptive Equipment

Many times an individual with a disability requires home modifications to attain a higher level of mobility, safety or independence. Funding is available, on a limited basis, to assist with bathroom modifications, wheelchair ramps, home fencing systems and other such modifications and equipment. Communication devices and other financially prohibitive adaptive equipment assist the person with limited verbal communication to achieve a heightened ability to express their wants and needs.

“We recently moved and needed to install a ramp near the stairs to enable our wheelchair bound son access to our new apartment. My service coordinator helped me receive funding to help us with this expense”

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