Kennedy-Donovan Center, Day Habilitation Center New Bedford Area

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Kennedy-Donovan Center, Day Habilitation Center New Bedford Area Service area:KDC's Day Hab program serves adults with developmental disabilities within an hour's drive from our New Bedford Campus. Kennedy Foundation.

Participants come from as far away as Cape Cod and Metro West areas of Massachusetts. The Kennedy-Donovan Center (KDC) was founded in 1969 with a three-year demonstration grant from the Joseph P. The impetus was a wish by Rose Kennedy that her daughter could someday live a typical family life. Luella Hennessey Donovan, the Kennedy family nurse, and KDC founder, embarked on a new career providing educational, therapeutic, and community-based programs for young children with special needs. Luella's single program, run with just three staff, has expanded tremendously over the last 40 years. Today, KDC continues its legacy as a recognized leader of flexible, creative, community-based human services. With a diverse and dedicated staff of 400 employees and 300 respite home care providers and foster parents, we serve over 4,000 children and nearly 1,000 adults with (or at risk for) developmental disabilities or delays, and their families. We meet the needs of disabled individuals and their families throughout their life from pregnancy, infancy, and childhood, into adulthood and senior years. We operate a range of programs, including many in-home services, from eight community offices and 10 residences, to thousands of families in 150 communities across southern New England.

The Day Habilitation program provides a comprehensive managed program of therapies, developmental skills training and assistance with activities of daily living for adults with developmental disabilities in the context of a supportive, caring environment. Recognizing that many participants will have complex disabilities requiring complex clinical and medical supports, the Kennedy-Donovan Center Day Habilitation program will provide the medical oversight and coordination of services necessary to assure their optimal well being and success in the community.

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The Kennedy-Donovan Center (KDC) was founded in 1969 with a three-year demonstration grant from the Joseph P. Kennedy Foundation. The impetus was a wish by Rose Kennedy that her daughter could someday live a typical family life. Luella Hennessey Donovan, the Kennedy family nurse, and KDC founder, embarked on a new career providing educational, therapeutic, and community-based programs for young ch......ildren with special needs. Luella's single program, run with just three staff, has expanded tremendously over the last 40 years. Today, KDC continues its legacy as a recognized leader of flexible, creative, community-based human services. With a diverse and dedicated staff of 400 employees and 300 respite home care providers and foster parents, we serve over 4,000 children and nearly 1,000 adults with (or at risk for) developmental disabilities or delays, and their families. We meet the needs of disabled individuals and their families throughout their life from pregnancy, infancy, and childhood, into adulthood and senior years. We operate a range of programs, including many in-home services, from eight community offices and 10 residences, to thousands of families in 150 communities across southern New England.

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Kennedy-Donovan Center is committed to the provision of all services necessary to meet the needs of the program recipients. Kennedy-Donovan Center Day Habilitation will provide medical oversight, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy on site. Participants will be offered developmental skills training in the following areas: sensory-motor development, communication development, social development, independent living development, affective development and behavior development.
The program will also draw upon the extensive resources of the New Bedford area for a variety of enriching activities to allow participants to have their skills training needs addressed in natural settings to facilitate opportunities for increased participation in their community. As an example, clients choosing to go out to lunch to a local restaurant will work on social, communication and independent living skills in the context of a naturally occurring community activity that serves to strengthen their ties to their home community.

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