Eight programs. One life.
Residents choose what they take part in. Everything here exists to make living independently actually work — not to keep anyone busy.
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A furnished one-bedroom apartment, 618 square feet, with a door that locks and a key that belongs to the resident.
Residents fill it with their own things and have friends over. Utilities, high-speed internet, and fourteen meals a week are included. Past the front door: a community kitchen, a lounge, an indoor recreation room, a multipurpose room, an outdoor patio, a sports court, and a splash pad. Staff are on site 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The apartment is the point. Everything else is what a person walks out into.
Coaching & Life Skills
Every resident works with a life coach, and the plan is written with them — which is why no two look alike.
Together they set goals, build routines, and work through the ordinary machinery of an adult life — schedules, appointments, laundry, groceries, the things nobody teaches you on purpose.
It starts before move-in. Ahead of the trial stay, a life coach sits down with the resident and their guardians to go through what they can already do and where they need help, then writes the accommodation plan that covers the trial stay and the first sixty days.
Life coaches report to Kady McCarthy, the Resident Experience Director, who spent eleven years as a special educator before taking the role.
Employment & Vocational
Work, school, or volunteering — the resident chooses, and the ride is handled.
Employment readiness coaching and job training are part of what room and board covers. With a life coach, that means building a résumé, finding openings, practicing interviews, and walking into the real one alone.
Some work in the community — barista, preschool assistant. Others volunteer or take classes.
Employment rate stat — held pending the 80%-vs-21% reconciliation with Lauri.
Health & Well-Being
A Registered Dietitian on the staff, a sports court and a splash pad, and a dog on the team.
Jessica Wotruba, a Registered Dietitian, leads nutrition at Treasure House. She builds a personalized plan with each resident one on one, teaches workshops on food choices and physical activity, and sets the menus behind those fourteen meals a week.
Fitness has a staff member of its own. Murphy, a certified service dog, was first trained to work with medically complex children; his job at Treasure House is getting residents moving.
Financial Literacy
Keeping a budget. Ordering groceries. This is where independence gets practical.
Planning ahead and spending on purpose. Residents work on it the way they work on any other skill here: with a coach, on their own terms, before it becomes a problem.
Directional — pending confirmation that this exists as a named program.
Transportation
A twenty-mile radius. The least glamorous program here, and the one that makes half the others possible.
That covers work shifts, medical appointments, classes, volunteering, and whatever else in a week happens off the property. Community assistants handle the day-to-day of getting people where they're going.
The service is supported in part by Federal Transit Administration Section 5310 funds, administered through the City of Phoenix Public Transit Department — which is also why Treasure House publishes a Title VI plan.
Recreation & Community
A full calendar, and residents pick from it.
Fitness, music, theater, arts, volunteering, game nights, sports. Group outings, trips to cultural events around the Valley, and events Treasure House puts on itself.
This is where the friendships come from — the kind that make a resident turn down a weekend at home.
Self-Advocacy
Speaking up for yourself, so a parent doesn't have to be your voice forever.
Asking for what you need, saying no to what you don't, and being heard when you do. It runs underneath every other program on this list.
Three residents currently sit on the Treasure House Young Professionals Board — raising money and planning events alongside the people who fund the place they live.
The best way to understand this is to walk through it.
We're full and the waitlist is open. Openings go to the best fit, and that starts with an inquiry and a tour.