Community Options Inc. offers permanent housing in staffed group homes for those of our most vulnerable citizens: those with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Some have aged out of their family home; others have languished in institutions; those who are lucky now have the security and the benefits of living in a house or apartment and the chance to live independent lives.

Diane D’Orazio is state director for the southern half of New Jersey encompassing Mercer, Ocean, Burlington, Camden,…