PROMISE INC

Our goal is to provide affordable independent housing for individuals with cognitive and physical disabilities utilizing public and private partnerships to develop a model community and a life never thought possible.

Our vision is to empower our residents with social, educational and meaningful employment opportunities by actively supporting full inclusion within the community.

Core Values
• Personal Choice
Promise respects our residents’ independence and honors their choice on how they live, work, learn, worship, and socialize.
• Respect
Promise believes that all people are valuable in their ability and will treat all fairly.
• Opportunity
Promise will provide opportunities for employees and residents to thrive by accepting ideas, providing venues for growth, sharing, and learning.
• Model
Promise believes we will be a community that can be used as a model across the country.
• Integrity
Promise believes that it is essential to operate at the highest levels of honesty, responsibility, and professionalism.
• Sustainability
Promise will strive to make decisions to ensure the longevity of our community.
• Excellence
Promise strives to be a place where people do their best to enhance the lives of those they live with, work with and serve.

Promise’s Resident Community Program enhances our affordable housing by incorporating a variety of programs and services that provide permanent, long-term solutions for adults with special needs, including independent living courses (such as banking, budgeting, and financial planning); transportation services; health and fitness programs; movie and karaoke nights; art classes; ballroom dancing/line dancing classes; safety and crisis training; and our Vocational Training & Employment Program, which was designed to help provide long-term employment for our residents.

Promise has developed a variety of social enterprises, designed to employ our residents and provide the opportunity for them to help pay for their own independent living needs. Rather than focusing on their disabilities, our focus is on the abilities of each resident and the instrumental roles they play in our society. In turn, the funds our our social enterprises generate once they are up and running will be funneled back into our organization allowing it to be self-sustaining.

Our goal is for every Promise resident who wants to be employed to have a job, whether it is at one of our many social enterprises or elsewhere in the community, providing them with a purpose and a paycheck that will allow them to pay for their own supportive living services and fully experience the freedom of independent living. Currently, 56 of our residents are employed at 30 area businesses, and through this program we provide continuous vocational training and employment assistance to residents as they strive to become self-sufficient.