"We Make Lives Better"

"How we got started....."

Scott Appalachian Industries was started by Mr. Larry R. West in 1984, along with the support and understanding from his wife Bonnie, who grew up with a profoundly disabled older brother. With now numerous additional staff, Scott Appalachian Industries continues to look for new, creative, and better ways to serve increasing numbers of citizens with disabilities. Scott Appalachian Industries has experienced successful, steady, challenged growth now for more than 20 years. The agency today provides supportive services in the community, agency, workplace, and in the home. Services range in complexity from a simple counseling session with a counselor to 24 hour supports from a "team" of Direct Care Providers.

Scott Appalachian Industries was established and chartered as a public, non-profit function of Scott County on June 28th, 1984. It is an effort to provide a growing, expanding and maturing program of services for the handicapped citizens of all ages in Scott and surrounding communities, and discriminates against no one because of age, race, sex, creed, handicap, or national origin.

Once an application is made at SAI, persons are served when and if background information implicates services are appropriate. Services are individualized and may vary vastly in scope and quantity from one service recipient to another. In general, the agency seeks to serve anyone who qualifies, but whose participation is mutually beneficial to self, other individuals being served, and the agency’s mission. The agency operates under a policy of normalization. An oversimplified explanation of normalization is both quality mature treatment of and promoting quality mature reactions from a person who has reached a mature age. Scott Appalachian Industries strives to promote development of socially preferred and life enhancing qualities and opportunities for citizens.

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