30-03-2025
Alpha Opportunities Inc. opening new residential habilitation group home
Mar. 29—Editor's note: This story and accompanying photo are advertorial content in the 2025 "Moving the Community Forward" special section of The Jamestown Sun.
JAMESTOWN — Alpha Opportunities Inc. recently opened a second residential habilitation group home to serve clients, said Mallory Everson, executive director, and plans to open another one in April.
"Last December, we opened an all-men's residential habilitation group home on the southwest side of Jamestown, and six gentlemen live there," she said.
The third home will be located in northeast Jamestown.
"It will originally open as a four-bed home for women for residential habilitation but it will be expanded to having six people (women) living in the home," Everson said.
Alpha Opportunities Inc. is a nonprofit organization providing person-centered services to people with developmental disabilities over the age of 18, Everson said.
In addition to the residential habilitation group homes, it also operates two intermediate care facility group homes for people with higher needs, she said.
Residents have their own bedroom in residential habilitation group settings, Everson said. They make their meals together, go grocery shopping together and are encouraged to help with cleaning and maintaining the home, she said.
They also have 24/7 staffing support, Everson said, including help with transportation and teaching them skills needed to live in that apartment setting on their own.
"They go out in the community, some of them work jobs, some attend the day program (Alpha provides)...," she said.
Everson said the goal of a person in a residential habilitation group program is to build skills and gain independence to move into an apartment and be successful in the community.
Alpha Opportunities supports 54 people in the community, Everson said, including 22 who live in their own apartments. There are 38 individuals currently in its day program.
Alpha Opportunities has 87 employees, Everson said.
She said there is a high need for more group home facilities to support people and it can be difficult to open one when everyone is looking for employees.
"It makes it very challenging for a provider to expand and to grow," she said. "However, Alpha has now been able to have this impact on the community of Jamestown two times in the last about year and a half. And so I think that's a huge asset for the community to be able to have a provider that is flourishing enough to offer these services to more people that need them."
She said the referral list is very long in North Dakota for those looking for services.
"I think Jamestown is very lucky," Everson said. "They're a very good community. Alpha's been around since the '80s and the community is very welcoming for what we do and the people we support. We have a lot of people that work in different businesses here in the community and the community has been a very big supporter of Alpha. And so any chance that we can to be able to enhance our services in the community and provide something back to the community, we're really trying to focus on that."
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