Private bedroom
Your person's room. Furnished, decorated, and used the way they want it. Doors close. Privacy respected.
Service · Supportive Living
A real home, with the staff to make it work.
Supportive living is our most common placement: a single-family home shared by one to three adults, each with their own bedroom, with direct support staff present 24 hours a day. The home is on a residential street in Salt Lake County. The staff are people, not titles.
What is included
What every supportive-living placement comes with.
Around-the-clock staff
At least one direct support professional in the house at all times. Overnight staff are awake when residents need them.
Medication administration
Trained staff, secure storage, individual records. Coordinated with each resident's prescribers.
Meals and groceries
Three meals a day plus snacks. Residents help cook when they want to. Diet and allergy preferences in the care plan.
Transportation
Day program, work, doctor visits, family visits, weekend life. Mix of staffed transport and TRAX where it works.
Personal care
Bathing, hygiene, dressing as needed. Person-centered, with the person's preferences leading.
Behavior support
If a positive behavior support plan is part of the care plan, our staff are trained to follow it. Updated quarterly.
Health coordination
PCPs, dentists, specialists, mental-health providers. Visits scheduled, transported, attended, documented.
Family time, on the calendar
Holidays, birthdays, video calls, weekend visits. Family preferences in the plan, by name.
Who it is for
A good fit, an honest answer.
Supportive living usually fits adults whose support needs include 24-hour staffing, medication administration, mobility assistance, or coordination of medical and behavioral supports. It is the right placement for adults who want roommates, social rhythm, and shared meals; it is not the right placement for adults who would do better in a private family home (host home) or who can live with weekly or daily check-ins (independent supported living elsewhere).
We support people across the developmental and intellectual disability spectrum, including adults with autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, and combinations thereof. We support nonverbal residents and residents who use augmentative communication. We support adults whose history includes behaviors other providers have considered challenging.
Where supportive living is not currently the right fit at Aspen: medically fragile placements requiring nursing-level care, adults under 18, single-occupant placements (we are working on that capacity for 2027). If you are not sure, ask. We will tell you within a day.
How funding works
Supportive living is a Medicaid HCBS waiver service in Utah. When a person is on a Community Supports Waiver and authorized for our placement, the waiver pays the cost. Families pay nothing additional for waiver-covered services. Where waiver coverage is not in place, we offer private-pay arrangements at published rates and tell you the dollar amount before any agreement.
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