Supporting Choices, Enhancing Lives, Fulfilling Dreams.
Our Mission
The mission of Journey Found is to provide behavioral, residential and other support services to individuals of Connecticut with pervasive developmental disorders and intellectual disabilities to enable each to become what they are capable of being.
Our Vision
To fulfill our mission, we strive to provide a supportive and caring environment where individuals with special individualized needs are treated with respect and with dignity and are offered opportunities to function as productive members of their community. We are committed to the pursuit of excellence and innovation by implementing the highest standards in behavioral therapies, rehabilitative services and residential care. continuously educating our staff about best practices and creating a work place where creativity and innovation are encouraged and rewarded.
Philosophy & Values
Journey Found has committed to pursuing organizational and systems change that will result in clearly person-driven services, not only within Journey found but also in the state. Our values are: Support, Respect, Excellence and Community.
To fulfill our mission, we strive to provide a supportive and caring environment where individuals with special individualized needs are treated with respect and dignity and are offered opportunities to function as productive members of their community.
We are committed to the pursuit of excellence and innovation by implementing the highest standards in behavioral therapies, rehabilitative services and residential care, continuously educating our staff about best practices and creating a workplace where creativity and innovation are encouraged and rewarded.
Our History
We exist because we care about our people. We will continually innovate and endure for the same reason.
Journey Found was incorporated by a committed group of guardians on May 16, 2013, to provide continuity of care to 51 individuals previously served by another provider. When that organization opted to no longer do business with the state of CT after 16 years of providing services, Journey Found was created to assume contracts and services on July 1, 2013, with no disruption for those enrolled in the programs.
This odyssey not only preserved services for those 51 individuals and jobs for the 192 staff but also began a much-needed process of culture change and values clarification. The organization went from a top-down, compliance-focused structure (with senior leadership remote to the process and located in a neighboring state) to a vision-driven agency committed to quality and governed by families.