About

In 1971 the Utah Association of Rehabilitation Facilities was developed to assist rehab providers in organizing around the issues that faced community rehab organizations. In 1983 the Community Residential Providers Association was formed to assist primarily residential business in addressing their needs. In the late 80's the two provider organizations came together and formed our current member organization, the Utah Association of Community Services.

Today, we are a 501(c) (6), membership organization with a primary objective to make optimal safe services available that improve and enhance the quality of lives of people with disabilities. Charlie Luke is our Executive Director. We are over 40 individual small and large businesses that contract with the Division of Services for People with Disabilities to provide community supports to over 5,000 people in 400 program sites across the State. We collectively employ approximately 4,500 staff to provide these services.

The Department of Human Services, Division of Services for People with Disabilities has a budget of just less than 2 million dollar and our members annually represent approximately 95 million or 83% of that budget. Many of our member organizations also contract with other Divisions within Human Services, such as Juvenile Justices and Family & Children Services. A number of us contract with other state agencies, Division of Rehab and Workforce Development, and also hold contracts with cities and counties. Many of our members also provide services in other states such as Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona.

We bring thirty five years wealth of expertise, knowledge and experience to our partnership with the Department of Human Services.