CHOICE Program
(Choosing Habilitation Opportunities in Community Environments)
2277 S. Stone Mountain-Lithonia Road
Lithonia, GA 30058

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The CHOICE (Choosing Habilitation Opportunities in Community Environments) Program is the first community based day habilitation program for individuals with developmental disabilities at the DeKalb CSB. While other day programs
include community inclusion activities, CHOICE is primarily focused on non facility-based day options. The program is intended to serve individuals with developmental disabilities who choose an alternative approach to day services.

Individuals are involved in planning their daily activities. The services reflect what the consumer wants to do not what the program has to offer. Consumer choices are based on a variety of alternatives, and include suggestions from the consumers, their family members and professionals from an interdisciplinary team. Services include socialization skills through community inclusion, daily living skills, vocational training, and behavior supports. Since CHOICE is a community-based program, consumers receiving either Day Support or Day Habilitation services are involved in meaningful community activities with non-disabled adults on a daily basis.

Community Integrated Services
Some of the community-integrated services include volunteer work for Meals on Wheels, Salvation Army, Wonderland Gardens, FODAC (Friends of Disabled Adults and Children, local churches and the Food Bank. Other individuals volunteer to do arts and crafts with senior citizens at a local senior day care center. CHOICE has a business involved in making gift cards and stationery and other gift items to sell in the community. CHOICE also has a small paper shredding business. The money generated results in a paycheck used by the consumers for special activities, trips, etc.