The UCP's Residential Program maintains Intermediate Care Facilities (ICF's), Individual Residential Alternatives (IRA's), and Residential Habilitation Services throughout Suffolk County. Adults, ages 21 to over 73, with a range of disabilities, moderate to severe, are served by this program.

The Children's Residential Program is a comprehensive program for youngsters five through 21.

All UCP residences provide family-style living with individually decorated bedrooms and are located in residential neighborhoods in communities across Suffolk County. The goal is to provide adults with disabilities all necessary services in a home environment.

All residences include:

• accessible kitchens & bathrooms
• dining rooms
• living rooms
• family rooms

Indian Head Residence

The Indian Head Residence in Commack is home to 31 men and women, who are attended to by on-site direct care, support staff and round the clock nursing to ensure a comfortable and fulfilling quality of life. Medical, clinical, nutritional, recreational and day treatment services are part of a regular routine strengthening each resident's development, often enabling them to move to smaller homes.

The Indian Head Residence is also the home of our two-bed overnight Respite Program. The aim of the program is to give families "a break" whenever needed.

Intermediate Care Facilities

Family-sized Intermediate Care Facilities, with four to 12 residents per home, are located in East Northport, Lake Grove, Mt. Sinai, Ridge, Smithtown, St. James and Stony Brook and have round-the-clock direct care service. The residents are 24 years of age or older and attend adult day treatment programs.

Individual Residential Alternatives

Individual Residential Alternatives, currently located in Bohemia, Brentwood, Coram, West Islip, Hauppauge, Holdbrook, Islandia, Patchogue, Port Jefferson Station, Ridge, Setauket, and Smithtown provide residents with barrier-free, four-bedroom homes (six to eight residents per home) in residential areas. The residents are 21 years of age or older, and most use a wheelchair or walker. Speech ranges from near normal to use of devices or signs to non-verbal. Some residents are visually or hearing impaired, some mild to profoundly retarded. IRA homes foster family-style living with an emphasis on the individual's choice of programs and activities, as well as a reliance on community supports and resources. Services are designed to meet the needs of each resident. Staff includes a house manager, assistant manager, direct care aides with a minimum of two on duty staff at all times, a part-time nurse, and a recreation consultant. Expansion and new home development in this program are ongoing.

Residential Habilitation Program

The Residential Habilitation Program seeks to assist the individual to improve the self-help skills necessary to perform activities that continually occur at home. The men and women in this program live in their own residences, a supported or supervised apartment or family-care home. Residents are Medicaid eligible, having been disabled before the age of twenty-two. The program is designed around the individual's goals and activities, from personal grooming to household chores.

Eaton Knolls

Eaton Knolls is UCP's first federally funded apartment complex for individuals with disabilities. It has six one-bedroom apartments and six two-bedroom units and a community room. The complex is named in honor of Nina Eaton, a United Cerebral Palsy Association founder and long-time member of UCP Suffolk's Board of Directors.

Intermediate Care Facility/Children's Residential Program

UCP Suffolk is developing a blended and integrated Intermediate Care Facility/Children's Residential Program (ICF/CRP) that will support the growth and development of children. The collaborative program, which will incorporate both residential and educational services, is tailored to meet the needs of the children. It will be a unique program to facilitate acquisition of skills, appropriate behavior and independence. The tasks learned in the classroom will be reinforced after the school day ends by carrying them over into their new home, increasing speed at which progress can occur. The two residences are integrated in the community, and within close proximity of the school.

Children's Residential Program (click)