Alternative Family Living
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[edit] Overview
Alternative Family Living is a term used in mental health care mostly in North Carolina but also occasionally in other states.
[edit] Definitions
| From a cache of cncaccess.com/services/afl.htm dated 2005-05-17 (but not edited since 2003-07-26): |
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The Alternative Family Living program is a residential service, which provides family style supervision and monitoring of daily activities. Individuals live with a family who acts as a provider of supported services. The AFL provider is a person or agency capable of providing a supportive, culturally normative, programmatically sound service that meets the physical, emotional and developmental needs of those served. |
| From Residential & Support Services, Inc.: |
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Alternative Family Living (AFL) - Children or adults with developmental disabilities live with a family (not their own). The family member provides supportive services and promotes "family-style" supervision and monitoring of daily activities. |
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