The Hart-Supported Living program is for Kentuckians with disabilities to request funds for supports so they can live in their homes and communities and avoid institutionalization. The law, KRS 210.770 defines it as the following:
The Hart-Supported Living Program means grants that provide a broad category of highly flexible, individualized services that, when combined with natural unpaid or other eligible paid supports, provide the necessary assistance to do the following:
- Provide the support necessary to enable a person who is disabled to live in a home of the person's choice which is typical of those living arrangements in which persons without disabilities reside;
- Encourage the individual's integrated participation in the community with persons who are members of the general citizenry;
- Promote the individual's rights and autonomy;
- Enhance the individual's skills and competences in living in the community; and
- Enable the individual's acceptance in the community by promoting home ownership or leasing arrangements in the name of the individual or the individual's family or guardian.
Any Kentuckian with a disability as defined by the Americans with Disability Act is eligible to apply for funding. Specifically, the statute for Hart-Supported Living, KRS 210.770, defines what is meant by person with a disability.
You (and/or your family, friends, and the people who support you) should consider applying for Hart-Supported Living funds if you meet the definition and you want to:
- Live in a home of your choice that is typical of the homes where people without disabilities live;
- Participate in your community with all members of the community;
- Decide for yourself what supports and services you need to live in the community; and
- Arrange for and manage your own supports.
Hart-Supported Living funds do not support:
- Segregated living models such as any housing situation which physically or socially isolates people with disabilities from general citizens of the community;
- Segregated programs or activities which physically or socially isolate people with disabilities from general citizens of the community;
- Congregate living models such as any housing situation which groups individuals with disabilities in an enclave within an integrated setting;
- Any model where the individual, as an adult, does not have maximum control of the home environment commensurate with the individual's disabilities; and
- Any single living unit where more than three people with disabilities live.
Region I – Four Rivers
Wendy Brooks
425 Broadway, Suite 203
Paducah, KY 42001
Phone: (270) 442-5088
Counties: Ballard, Callaway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Livingston, McCracken, Marshall
Region II – Pennyroyal
Dana Walters
PO Box 614
Hopkinsville, KY 42241
Phone: (270) 885-1601
Fax: (270) 887-9221
Counties: Caldwell, Christian, Crittenden, Hopkins, Lyon, Muhlenberg, Todd, Trigg
Region III – River Valley
Sarah Alcorn
1100 Walnut St.
PO Box 1637
Owensboro, KY 42302
Phone: (270) 689-6730
Counties: Daviess, Hancock, Henderson, McLean, Ohio, Union, Webster
Region IV – Lifeskills
Renee Hudson
P.O. Box 6499
Bowling Green, KY 42102-6499
Phone: (270) 901-5000, ext. 1326
Counties: Allen, Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Hart, Logan, Metcalfe, Monroe, Simpson, Warren
Region V – Communicare
Angela Peters
320 Ring Road
Elizabethtown, KY 42701
Phone: (270) 769-3377, ext. 17
Counties: Breckenridge, Grayson, Hardin, Larue, Marion, Meade, Nelson, Washington
Region VI - Seven Counties
Betty Pike
3717 Taylorsville Road
Louisville, KY 40220
Phone: (502) 459-5292
Fax: (502) 287-0607
Counties: Bullitt, Henry, Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby, Spencer and Trimble
Region VII – North Key
Janet Thiess
1201 S. Fort Thomas Ave.
Ft. Thomas, KY 41075
Phone: (859) 781-5586
Counties: Boone, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton, Owen, Pendleton
Region VIII – Comprehend
Mary McDaniel
741 Kenton Station Road
Maysville, KY 41056
Phone: (606) 759-7161
Fax: (606) 759-4895
Counties: Bracken, Fleming, Lewis, Mason, Robertson
Region X – Pathways
Caryn Turvey
PO Box 790
Ashland, KY 41105-0790
Phone: (606) 329-8588, ext. 4072
Counties: Boyd, Carter, Elliot, Greenup, Lawrence, Bath, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Rowan
Region XI – Mountain
Kathy Ryan
104 South Front St.
Prestonsburg, KY 41653
Phone: (606) 886-4326
Counties: Floyd, Johnson, Magoffin, Martin, Pike
Region XII – Kentucky River
Vicky Hudson
115 Rockwood Lane
Hazard, KY 41701
Phone: (606) 436-5761, ext. 7277
Counties: Breathitt, Knott, Lee, Leslie, Letcher, Owsley, Perry, Wolfe
Region XIII – Cumberland River
Barbara Barton
PO Box 568
Corbin, KY 40702
Phone: (606) 528-7010
Counties: Bell, Clay, Harlan, Jackson, Knox, Laurel, Rockcastle, Whitley
Region XIV – Adanta
Tonya Hignite
259 Parker’s Mill Road
Somerset, KY 42501
Phone: (606) 679-4782, ext. 2027
Counties: Adair, Casey, Clinton, Cumberland, Green, McCreary, Pulaski, Russell, Taylor, Wayne
Region XV – Bluegrass
Keith Brockman
3161 Custer Dr., Suite 8
Lexington, KY 40517
Phone: (859) 272-7483, ext. 270
Counties: Anderson, Bourbon, Boyle, Clark, Estill, Fayette, Franklin, Garrard, Harrison, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison, Mercer, Nicholas, Powell, Scott, Woodford