One of the greatest fears for parents of children with disabilities is what happens when they become adults.

It's a time that families often call falling off the cliff of services their child's been receiving.

While a new facility in Paramus is able to meet the needs of more adults with disabilities, and Raven Santana visited this massive new space to see the smiles on their faces.

Is there a picture in the screen?

No.

I think it's next weekend.

Is it this weekend?

Get out of here.

Really?

I better get ready.

Picnics, recreational time therapy, you name it.

Steve Setteducati, CEO of New Concepts for Living, says he's got it all in this 81,000 square foot state of the art facility that caters and serves adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Through the support of the New Jersey Division of Developmental Disability, the nonprofit is able to offer all these services for free.

When I walked through this door, I started to tear up because so many people look at our children and don't and don't think that they deserve the best.

And this is the best to come here to see how many things they put in place for him and the trips and the amount of care.

New Concepts also provides community residencies and offers transportation for patients to the day programs held at the facility.

Many of whom have a variety of different conditions, including Autism, Down Syndrome and other rare conditions.

New concepts is amazing.

The compassion, the care, the dignity that they have for their medically fragile and their individuals with disabilities is unsurpassed.

And so new concepts of living runs group homes are community residencies at group homes is what they're known by for special needs adults.

These are adults who are 21 and over.

They've aged out of the systems.

The education system goes to 18.

Then from 18 to 21 is a different program and then they're kind of out of that system and they're the guardians.

The parents are looking for some sort of a future for their loved ones.

They need help with their ideals.

It's just the daily living skills they need, help toileting, or it could be total care.

Those are the high need individuals who are low functioning, and that is a program in of itself.

There's nine work rooms in this program for those types of individuals, and then there's low need.

These are people with who are higher functioning but who are on the spectrum, and that is a different level of care.

That's I think there's six wharf rooms for the the the lower need, higher functioning individuals.

And then there's a medically fragile that I just spoke about and there's four work rooms for them.

As you can see, we have a nurse's station.

We have, you know, we have trach systems in the ceiling, in the bathroom to help with those.

My son had some challenging behaviors where he was getting very aggressive and violent.

I did look at new concepts for a living a couple of years ago in the Rochelle Park, and I loved it.

I just loved everything about it.

How they accommodated Ryan when he came in, they took him to the sensory room.

In addition to unique rooms like recreational and life skills like this one downstairs, participants can also take advantage of occupational speech and physical therapy rooms.

Upstairs.

There's a great need for occupational, physical and speech therapy.

This is occupational and physical therapy.

In this room we have a suite, a speech therapy suite in the back.

There's a great need for it.

There's a great demand set it.

Setteducati, who has been the CEO since 2016, says the new site replaced a former Barnes Noble's and is about eight times the size of their former home in Rochelle Park.

Currently, its staff with 110 employees and 80 participants, the oldest resident at one time was 90, he says.

To an extent at a certain time we take them into our program and perhaps into our homes.

And, you know, we can tell them that, you know, we've got it from here.

You don't have to worry as much anymore.

Setteducati, says they have about 300 people on the waiting list for their Paramus location.

He now hopes to bring a dentist and a general practitioner to the facility as well.

For NJ Spotlight News, I'm Raven Santana.

And support for the medical report is provided by Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey.

An independent licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.