These Adult Family Homes sound a lot like the residential center that my
parents and I would love to build, that would take parts of a group home
and a independent home and put the good parts of both settings together.
We even have drawings of the building we would want to build, it's a
square building with 4 town houses coming out of the corners, that would
both have access to the outside and plus the inner core.  Each town
house would have a kitchen, living room, dining room and 1 or 2
bathrooms and bedrooms.  In the inner core, we would have a activity
room, a dining room, kitchen and offices for attendants.  It would be up
to the residents whether to eat and do stuff with the others.  I myself
would love the company and the freedom of going into my own whenever I
please.  Thinking about it I know a architect, so I should have him
draft something, so I could present this plan to people and get
supporters.

Thanks,
Anthony

Visit me at http://www.anthonyarnold.net/

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An adult family home is different from a group home. Adult family homes
allow
the residents to be responsible -- for instance in a group home you have
rules like nobody's allowed in the kitchen at night, and in the daytime
many group
homes force you to leave between 9 am and 3 PM, and you don't have your
own
key to the home, and you can't have your own phone in your room.  In an
adult
family home, all of that is different.

Do a web search for "adult family home"  or AFH

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