Creative Community Living provides services for individuals with developmental disabilities. Our mission is to create an environment where everyone is valued and challenged to reach his or her full potential.
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FAMILY PHOTO -- Benjamin Gates is pictured with his parents, Kendall and Rachel Gates, during one of their visits to his home in Winfield. Click on the fall issue of the CCL Flyer, at right, to read about Benjamin's transition to CCL after living at the Kansas Neurological Institute in Topeka for 25 years. (Jane Sandbulte photo)
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DON'T MISS OUR CASINO NIGHT!! CCL will host its 10th annual Casino Night fund-raiser at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, March 3, in the Winfield Community Center. You will play games such as blackjack, roulette, craps, bingo, slot machines, Plinko and Wheel of Fortune using play money. Lots of prizes will be given away during the evening. Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the door. They are available at Winfield Pharmacy, Dillons and CCL's Meyer Hall, all in Winfield; and Sears in Ark City. All money raised will be used to pay for essential items and services for clients who lack the money to pay for them. For more information, call (620) 221-9431 or e-mail jsandbulte@cclccl.org.
About Us
Creative Community Living is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating an environment where everyone is valued and challenged to reach his or her full potential. Our goal is to help individuals enjoy more choices, independence, productivity and community inclusion. With those options, their lives can be changed.
Staff members help individuals enrich their lives by assisting with personal care, teaching life skills and coordinating community outings and activities.
Residences are located in neighborhoods of the south-central Kansas cities of Winfield, Arkansas City and El Dorado. Administrative offices and day centers are in Winfield and El Dorado.
CCL was organized in 1996 by parents and guardians of Winfield State Hospital and Training Center residents after the Kansas Legislature voted to close the hospital. At least 60 percent of the 14-member board of directors is made up of parents and guardians of individuals with developmental disabilities.
About 135 men and women currently receive services from approximately 280 staff members. Many of the individuals have extraordinary needs and require more services than typically provided by organizations serving the developmentally disabled. However, programs have also been developed to meet the needs of people with fewer disabilities.