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For most students entering LDI, educational and employment success have been elusive. Their educational and employment difficulties have adversely affected how many view themselves and their opportunities for the future.

Since 1982, LDI’s community-based programs in a residential setting have provided a supportive environment for people to grow and thrive achieving success in obtaining competitive employment, living on their own, pursuing higher education or advanced job training, and developing healthy adult relationships.

Together with a dedicated staff of caring professionals, the program accomplishes its Mission actively working with and supporting parents who are desperate for a place where their adult child can thrive and succeed. They look to LDI for hope and support, because they have found so few resources for their children in other places. We strive to ease the difficult transition for the parent from being their adult child’s advocate to being a parent who can allow their adult children to become more independent.

What we do

Teach. Our academic program builds work skills and includes career planning and guidance for future employability. We teach our students core life values and show them, by example, how to live by these values. We help each student set attainable goals for themselves and then help them develop confidence and leadership skills as they achieve these goals. We also teach that daily life is rich with options and that is something they will be able to count on through the course of their lifetime.

Inspire. The program builds skills for making healthy life choices as an independent adult. We give our students hope. Adult role models encourage and mentor students and help them reinforce esteem and optimism about themselves and their place in the world.

Support. We support personal growth and maturing of the students. They learn social and relationship skills essential for living and working in the community of their future. We serve as advocates for men and women with hidden disabilities. We strive to inform their families and the community-at-large of issues that have potential impact on all adults with these conditions.

Build. Personal leadership through empowerment and self-determination. Our staff is mission-focused; dedicated to serving the unique needs of each individual. Our programs are structured and our services are personalized, offering simultaneous high standards and flexibility. As we mentor our students, they learn to be their own advocate and spokesperson establishing their place in the adult world.