AID's experience in supportive housing in Illinois. AID is a community mental health agency (MH) who also works with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities I/DD) in suburban Metro Chicago area. This interview with their long-time Executive Director just before she retired discussing the transition of her agency away from group homes in the suburbs and towards allowing people to live in their own apartment. Contrary to traditional agencies still using group living, AID rediscovered that people do better in their own apartment. This video busts a number of myths common in both the MH and the I/DD professional support system.

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