DEFINITION

The Stewart Community Home is a Personal Care Home which provides housing and assistance to elderly and disabled people from the Chattahoochee Valley and surrounding area. By definition, a Personal Care Home is a facility which provides housing, food service, and personal services (monitoring of medication, activities of daily living) for two or more adults.

 

The original Stewart Community Home was opened in 1976 by Sarah & Harold Stewart.  In April of 1994 we moved from two locations on 2nd and 3rd Avenues, to our present facility at 1125 15th Street.  Formerly the Edwina Wood Elementary School, we are currently equipped to house 72 residents.

 

MISSION STATEMENT

The Stewart Community Home (SCH) provides permanent and transitional housing for adults not capable of completely caring for themselves due to mental illness, limited physical disabilities, and age.  The Stewart Community Home (SCH) provides safe housing, nutritious meals, and medical stabilization programs that include activities to enhance essential life skills, regardless of ability to pay.

 

GOAL

The Stewart Community Home’s goal is to improve the quality of life for individuals who become residents in our facility.  We also strive to be viewed as a benchmark agency providing ongoing services to this special needs population.

 

RESIDENT POPULATION

At present, about 80% of our resident population consists of individuals with a mental health disability or an intellectual impairment.  Most of these residents have some type of chronic mental disorder, ranging from schizophrenia to depression, as well as, other diagnoses. We also have dual diagnosed individuals (mental illness and substance abuse).  The remaining 20% of our residents have various forms of physical disabilities.

 

These people are not impaired enough to require hospitalization or to be institutionalized on a permanent basis, but they are unable to live in the community without supervision and the services we offer.  Some of our residents have no family members.  Others have families who for one reason or another, cannot, or will not, care for them at home.