
Experience a better day, every day
Better Day Residential Care is a licensed supervised living home in Durham, North Carolina for three adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We provide twenty-four hour support, help with daily living, medication administration, and the everyday backing a person needs to work, worship, see family, and take part in their community. This is a house on a residential street, not a facility. It is home to the people who live here.

MISSION STATEMENT
Better Day Residential Care supports three adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live full, ordinary lives in a real home in Durham. We provide twenty-four hour support built around each person's own goals, preferences, and pace — teaching skills rather than doing things for people, offering real choices rather than routines, and treating every adult we serve as an adult. Our purpose is not to manage people. It is to help each person live the life they choose, with the support they actually need and no more than that.
OUR VISION AT BETTER DAY RESIDENTIAL CARE
We believe an adult with an intellectual or developmental disability should have the same ordinary life anyone else expects: a room of their own arranged the way they like it, choice about food and clothes and how to spend a Saturday, privacy, friendships, work if they want it, and the dignity of being asked rather than told. Our job is to make that possible with the right amount of support and not one bit more.
We are a restraint-free program. We do not use seclusion, physical restraint, isolation time-out, protective devices, or medication to control behavior. When someone is having a hard time, our staff use de-escalation and the supports that person's own plan says work for them.
ABOUT BETTER DAY RESIDENTIAL CARE
Better Day Residential Care is licensed by the North Carolina Division of Health Service Regulation as a supervised living facility for adults with developmental disabilities, license category 5600C. We serve three adults age eighteen and older who have an intellectual and/or developmental disability and need twenty-four hour support.
Every person who lives here has a person-centered plan built with them, not for them. Staff are trained before they ever work alone with a client, in client rights, confidentiality, supporting adults with I/DD, de-escalation, medication administration, CPR, and first aid. We are a small home by design — three people, not thirty — because support that fits a person cannot be delivered at scale.
"Choosing Better Day Residential Care was the best decision for our family. The staff's dedication and warmth created a truly nurturing home for my mother. We're so grateful for their compassionate care."
Sarah J., Daughter of a Resident

Contact Us
Better Day Residential Care
301 East End Ave
Durham, NC 27703
Office hours
Mon - Fri: 9am - 5pm
Saturday: 10am - 2pm
Sunday: Closed
Get in touch
Phone: 919-364-0593
Email: admin@betterdayrescare.com