Signal Centers Adult Day Services

Signal Centers, a Chattanooga nonprofit known for its disability and early childhood services, started Adult Day Services in 1978 when families of former preschool students needed an alternative to full-time home or institutional care for their adult children. The program follows a social model focused on arts and recreation, serving more than 60 individuals for over 40 hours a week, and uses person-centered care so participants choose how they spend their day. It runs in the Life Activity Building, which has a satellite studio of Signal's Hart Gallery, a sensory room and access to a nature playground, and the group goes on a community outing at least once a month. Google reviews for this listing mostly describe Signal Centers' children's services. It is licensed in Tennessee as an adult day services program.

An activity coordinator offers a calendar of programming that encourages movement, socialization and creativity, including art in the on-site Hart Gallery studio, time in a sensory room and outdoors, and monthly field trips to places such as the Hunter Museum of American Art and the Tennessee Aquarium. Signal Centers also offers caregiver support groups. Transportation through Tri-State Transportation is available for an added daily fee.

Signal Centers is at 109 N Germantown Rd, Chattanooga, TN 37411. Services are listed at $75 per day, with early care (7:30 to 8:30 AM), after care (3:30 to 4:30 PM) and transportation each $10 per day extra, and funding support may be available through CHOICES and the Family Support Program. Participants must be 18 or older, have a physician's diagnosis of a physical or intellectual disability, be able to self-toilet and fit within the program's 8:1 staff ratio; families must tour and attend an intake meeting. Call (423) 698-8528 or use the online inquiry form.