Requirements

  • Butte and Shasta County residents
  • Medi-Cal eligible
  • Adults 18+ with a developmental disability
  • Must be a Far Northern Regional Center client

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Overview

Friendship Circle is a social recreational program designed to assist adults with developmental and/or intellectual disabilities acquire the skills necessary to enhance their social lives while developing and maintaining a circle of compatible friends. The program's emphasis is on self-determination, responsibility, and independence so that an individual can meet their own social needs. 

County/Counties served

  • Butte County
  • Shasta County

Languages spoken

  • English

Payment type

  • Payment not required

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