About Us

The Day Spring Community:
Empowering | Committed to Excellence | Innovative | Accountable

Empowering

Day Spring empowers adults with mental retardation to be all they can be!

We provide quality residential services and supports to an ever-expanding population, currently serving 44 adults and their families.

Committed to Excellence

Day Spring is respected and credible... well-known for quality social services and business practices, with a strong, committed 19-member Board of Directors.

Superior staff retention rate: our dedication to excellence inspires Day Spring's well-qualified and dedicated staff members who are compensated for outstanding performance.

Meaningful days... committed to meaningful work/activity, Day Spring ensures that each resident participates in 20 hours of meaningful activity per week.

Day Spring Meaningful Day:
45% Competitive Employment
27% Sheltered Employment
21% Community Habilitation
7% Volunteering

Innovative

Responsive and growing, Day Spring is driven by the needs of current residents and families, as well as listening to the needs of the people looking for quality residential opportunities.

Maximizing the gifts and potential of all Day Spring community members—residents, families, staff, administrators, board members, sponsors and friends—are not dependent on any one funding source.

Accountable

Incorporated in 1992, began service to residents in 1994; Since that time Day Spring has participated in annual financial, program, and housing audits. Oversight to Day Spring programs and services is provided by Office of Investigator General through License and Regulation, local comprehensive care center (SCS), Medicaid, Department of Mental Retardation and Housing and Urban Development.

Cost Effective Program
$95 per resident/day
$1.5 million operation in FY2007

Invested in the larger community. Day Spring residents contribute time and talent to over twenty locations in the Louisville Metro Area.