Woozle: New page: ==Overview== Alternative Family Living is a term used in mental health care mostly in North Carolina but also occasionally in other states. ===Definitions...

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New page: ==Overview== Alternative Family Living is a term used in mental health care mostly in North Carolina but also occasionally in other states. ===Definitions...

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==Overview==
[[Alternative Family Living]] is a term used in [[mental health care]] mostly in [[NC mental health care|North Carolina]] but also occasionally in other states.
===Definitions===
{{excerpt|From a [http://web.archive.org/web/20050517045218/http://www.cncaccess.com/services/afl.htm cache of cncaccess.com/services/afl.htm] dated 2005-05-17 (but not edited since 2003-07-26):}}
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.
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{{excerpt|From [http://www.rssweb.org/supervisedliving/ Residential & Support Services, Inc.]:}}
'''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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Woozle: New page: ==Overview== Alternative Family Living is a term used in mental health care mostly in North Carolina but also occasionally in other states. ===Definitions...