Staff Profiles

Keith A. Duclos- Founder, President
Keith brings both professional management training and diverse human service experience to the agency. Keith graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Science in Management and spent a couple of years working in the business field before making a career change to human services. After five years providing direct care and supervision in residential settings to adults with developmental disabilities, Keith went on to pursue his Master's degree in Human Service Management from the Heller School at Brandeis University. This experience afforded him the opportunity to develop and enhance his human service skills on a macro level. Since receiving his Master's degree, Keith has worked in the human service system gaining valuable experience with a variety of populations in diverse settings. In his career he has moved from program director overseeing several residential homes for adults with developmental disabilities up to his most recent position as the Director of Adult Support Services for people with severe and chronic mental illness. This role has included the supervision of fifty staff members and the management of care for eighty-two clients with disabilities.

Keith has also had the unique opportunity of living with an adult with developmental disabilities in a shared-living arrangement for the past nine years. Keith continues to share a home with a gentleman who has greatly improved the quality of his life with the assistance of Keith and his daily implementation of an individualized service plan designed and routinely adjusted to meet his changing needs.

Since graduate school it has been Keith's goal to found his own agency in the human service field, providing highly individualized services to people with disabilities. His primary objectives have focused on filling in the gaps normally found in supported living services due to the common "cookie cutter" approach often used in the field.