Article: GROUP HOMES: SHARED EXPENSES, SHARED EXPERIENCES

Article: Group homes
Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders;      700+ words ...Group homes Definition Group homes are small, residential facilities located within a community ... staffed 24 hours a day by trained caregivers. Description Most group homes are standard, single-family houses, purchased by group home ...

Article: GROUP HOMES NOT EASY TO SET UP
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  April 29, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... Bergen County, NJ) 04-29-2001 GROUP HOMES NOT EASY TO SET UP -- SEVERAL FACTORS ... has plenty of company. A shortage of group homes around New Jersey means people like ... people who were supposed to be placed in group homes between July 1997 and this June have ...

Article: State's shift from using group homes questioned ; ...
Portland Press Herald (Maine);  February 24, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... 24-2007 State's shift from using group homes questioned ; State House: DHHS says ... The dispute pits agencies that operate group homes for children against the state Department ... children and place fewer in privately run group homes - or discharge them from group homes ...

Article: City wants to spread out group homes; New Hope is ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  June 20, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... is calling for a moratorium on group homes until the city can control where this type of housing is located. Group homes, which are residential facilities ... wary of how a concentration of group homes in a particular neighborhood might ...

Article: Group homes generally accepted
The Billings Gazette;  March 25, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... were more than 200 people living in group homes in Yellowstone County. Local experts ... there could be as many as two dozen group homes scattered in residential neighborhoods throughout the area. Under Montana law, group homes with eight or fewer clients carft be ...

Article: VOTERS OK'D GROUP HOMES, SO WHERE ARE THEY?
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  March 28, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... NJ) 03-28-1996 VOTERS OK'D GROUP HOMES, SO WHERE ARE THEY? By MARY ELLEN ... 160 million bond issue to open new group homes for developmentally disabled adults ... budgets money each year to operate the new group homes, they can't be opened. And this ...

Article: Lawmakers targeting rules on group homes.
San Bernardino County Sun (San Bernardino, CA);  March 2, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... would give cities more power to oversee group homes. "What we're trying to do is get ... local, transparent process to regulate group homes could reduce the perception among the ... Senatorial District includes Highland, where group homes have become an issue in city politics ...