Imagine!

 

Technology Solutions for Consumers
SmartHome
 

 

 

  

The mission of Imagine! is to create and offer innovative tools and supports that allow our consumers to live fulfilling lives of independence and quality. One way we do this is by providing assistive technology to consumers that helps to diminish or eliminate environmental barriers.

Below is a list of just a few of the ways we are using assistive technology to improve the lives of the people we serve.

 
Consumer Technology Outreach Program (C-TOP)

Imagine!’s Consumer Technology Outreach Program (C-TOP) has granted consumers and their families more than $40,000 in fund to purchase technological devices designed to improve their quality of life. The funds have been used to purchase items including laptop computers, educational CD-ROMs and voice box devices for consumers who cannot communicate verbally.

For a story on how this grant positively impacted one of our consumers, click here

 
  SmartHome

In 2005, Imagine! launched one of its most ambitious projects ever - the development of two SmartHomes in Boulder County. The SmartHomes will incorporate cutting edge residential technologies to enhance the quality of life for clients, augment the effectiveness of staff as caregivers, and provide cost and energy savings for Imagine!.

The SmartHomes will provide permanent housing for individuals with physical, cognitive, and developmental disabilities. As the first such homes in the nation, the SmartHomes will serve as a model for the future of residential care for people with cognitive disabilities. In addition, creating this new way of providing residential services has enormous potential to impact groups of people with related concerns (dementia, autism, chronic mental illness, Alzheimer's) through partnerships with other agencies.

The SmartHomes will be the culmination of Imagine!'s years of research in the field of assistive technology, visits to demonstration sites in Oregon, Florida and Indiana, and extensive interface with the University of Colorado's Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities.

Click here to see a video about our SmartHome.

Visit the Imagine! SmartHomes website.

 
  Tech PCA

Imagine!’s Tech PCA (Personal Care Alternative) home in downtown Boulder was specifically designed and renovated for people with significant developmental and physical disabilities. Residents who might otherwise live in a nursing home or hospital setting are given the opportunity to live in a close-knit community in a warm, family style home. Comprehensive medical care utilizing state-of-the-art equipment is provided without compromising social and recreational opportunities within the community.