Home-Based Partner Independence

Open Your Home. Share Your Life. Help Someone Belong.

The Neighbor Network of Northern Nevada (N4) is looking for compassionate community members who are interested in opening their homes to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities or elders who need daily support, connection, and a safe place to belong. Shared Living is more than renting out a room. It is welcoming someone into your home and everyday life—not as a patient, not as a project, but as a person who deserves dignity, independence, friendship, and community.

A Shared Living Provider, or SLP, provides daily support to someone who lives in the provider’s home. The person may need help with daily routines, community access, transportation, meals, appointments, health and safety needs, social connection, or learning skills to live as independently as possible. This is a good fit for someone who wants to make a meaningful difference from home and has the heart, stability, and experience to support another person as part of everyday household life.

Established in 2015, N4 is a growing 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission to connect people living in Northern Nevada for inclusive, community-based services, volunteer opportunities, and affordable transportation. We create a village of people and organizations through community activities, transportation services, a time exchange, and support programs for people with disabilities and older adults.

Shared Living is a home-based support model for someone who benefits from daily support but does not typically need a group home, facility-based care, paid 24‑hour shift staffing, or awake overnight staff. The person receiving services lives in the Shared Living Provider’s home and participates in ordinary household and community life. This may include sharing meals, attending family or community activities, learning home management skills, going to appointments, building friendships, and being included in daily routines.

For this recruitment campaign, N4 is especially seeking non‑family Shared Living Providers who are open to welcoming someone new into their home.

N4 is especially interested in recruiting community members who are retired from, currently working in, or experienced in fields such as:

• Health care, nursing, therapy, or medical support.
• Human services, social work, case management, or community support.
• Education, special education, or disability services.
• Behavioral health, caregiving, foster care, or aging services.
• Direct support, residential support, personal care, or related community-based work.

You may be single, married, partnered, an empty nester, retired, working from home, or living in a household with children. What matters most is that you have a safe and stable home, sound judgment, patience, flexibility, and a genuine interest in helping someone belong.

This opportunity may be a strong fit for people who:

• Have experience supporting people with disabilities, elders, or people with complex needs.
• Have extra space in their home and want to use it for meaningful impact.
• Believe people should live in real homes and be included in real communities.
• Are patient, open‑minded, flexible, and good at problem‑solving.
• Enjoy teaching, coaching, and encouraging independence.
• Are comfortable working as part of a support team.
• Can provide structure without being overly controlling.
• Want meaningful connection in their home and daily life.
• Understand that support is about dignity, not doing everything for someone.

N4 is recruiting Shared Living Providers across 12 counties in Northern Nevada:
Washoe, Carson City, Storey, Douglas, Churchill, Lyon, Humboldt, Elko, Pershing, White Pine, Lander, and Eureka counties.

Depending on the person’s needs, interests, and support plan, a Shared Living Provider may:

• Provide a safe, stable, welcoming home environment.
• Encourage independence by teaching, coaching, and supporting rather than simply doing for.
• Help with daily routines such as meals, hygiene, dressing, laundry, cleaning, and household chores.
• Support…