Adult Family Care
Adult
Family Care (AFC) is a residential program for people age 16 and
older that because of medical, physical, cognitive or psychiatric problems
cannot safely live alone. Clients live in the homes of skilled caregivers
called "hosts."
Nurse management, social work support and supervised daily personal care are provided. Clients live in community homes instead of institutional settings.
Clients receive a private room and all meals. They are assisted with personal and medical care as needed, as well as transport to appointments.
Host families are provided initial and ongoing training by the AFC program. They receive a tax-exempt, monthly stipend and receive two weeks' paid vacation a year. AFC staff is available to clients and host families twenty-four hours a day.
Family members can apply to become host providers unless they are the parents of a minor child who would be the AFC client, the spouse of the client or a legally responsible relative (such as a guardian) of the client.
For more information, or to become a client or host family with AFC, please call 800-732-4636, or 413-773-5555, or 978-544-2259, or TDD 413-772-6566, Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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