About Aspen Living
We started Aspen Living because the providers we knew were doing too many things in too many places. We wanted depth, not reach. A short list of homes, in one county, with a staff who stay long enough to know the people they work with.
Aspen Living runs single-family homes in Salt Lake County for adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities. We are not a campus. We are not an institution. The homes are houses on residential streets, with neighbors and mail and a lawn.
We exist because the systems that surround a person with a disability tend to drift toward the institutional over time. A schedule becomes a regimen. A house becomes a facility. Staff become titles. The drift is small at every step and total over years. We try to push back, every day, in small ways: where staff sit at dinner, who picks the music, who gets to keep the dog.
Our work is supported by Utah's DSPD waivers and Medicaid HCBS funding, which means our service mix and quality standards are accountable to a public system. That is a feature. We want to be checked on.
Most providers in our category serve the entire state, multiple states, or several regions. We serve Salt Lake County. That decision shapes who we hire, who we partner with, and how well we know the school districts, the medical systems, and the transit lines our residents rely on.
Staff continuity is the strongest predictor of a good placement. We pay above the median DSP wage in Utah, schedule predictably, and run training that goes beyond the regulatory floor. We track staff turnover quarterly, and we publish it on the case-managers page once we have a year of operating data.
If a service is covered by a waiver we say so. If a service is private-pay we tell you the dollar amount before you sign anything. We will not surprise a family with an invoice. Our resources page explains the DSPD waiver mechanics in plain language for families who are new to the system.
Visits, meals, holidays, weekend trips, video calls during dinner. Aspen does not replace a family. We support what is already there. We document family preferences in each person's care plan because they are part of the care plan.
DSPD support coordinators carry caseloads of dozens of people. We respect their time. We respond to referrals within one business day, send a one-page summary the same day, and update authorizations on the day they expire instead of after.
A site for a disability-services organization that is not itself accessible is a contradiction. We meet WCAG 2.2 AA, publish a conformance statement, and ship reading-controls on every page. The bar is higher for us, and the bar is the brand.
Bios coming soon. We will publish names, roles, training, and how long we have done this work.
We are an approved DSPD provider in the State of Utah. Beyond DSPD authorization, we are pursuing CARF accreditation on the standard timeline (12 to 18 months from operations start). When the badge is earned, it will appear here. Until then, we will not display marks we have not earned.
Our staff complete state-required training plus ongoing in-house training in person-centered planning, positive behavior support, medication administration, first aid and CPR, and rights and self-advocacy. The current curriculum is available to families and case managers on request.