When, more than two decades ago, New Hampshire took the necessary and bold step of closing its institution for people with developmental disabilities, and helping individuals move back into community life, The Institute of Professional Practice was an instrumental part of that undertaking. We teamed with family members, state officials and other organizations dedicated to seeing that individuals could create for themselves meaningful lives, with the comforts of home, connections with friends, and ways to work, volunteer and contribute to community life.
Back then, The Institute offered day and residential services to many who had lived at the Laconia State School. In the process, staff honed their skills at helping individuals with challenging behaviors and complex medical needs live successfully in their local neighborhoods, often close to their families.
Today The Institute is acknowledged for its bedrock philosophy of respect, compassion, and commitment, and for the creative methods its seasoned staff have developed that enable enormously challenged children and adults to succeed. Our reputation of achievement is, in large part, due to the organization’s fundamental approach: services for each person are tailor-made to the individual. The Institute plans are built on and continually shaped by the person’s strengths, desires, resources, abilities and special needs. No plan that The Institute generates passes muster unless it is built and continually shaped around those personal attributes. Therefore, past failures are likely overcome and new abilities emerge that produce success.
IPP New Hampshire serves children and adults with autism and other behavioral challenges from its offices in Concord, Nashua and the Seacoast. The agency also outreaches to families, schools, and other professionals throughout the state who need specialized planning and assistance with difficult situations faced by individuals with disabilities.
The services that we offer state-wide include: 
- School-based Supports
- Outreach Assistance to Children and Families
- Behavioral Consultation and Training for Professionals and Parents
- Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI)
Services offered in the southern half of New Hampshire (Greater Seacoast, Greater Manchester/Concord, and Greater Nashua) include:
- Enhanced Family Care for Adults and Children
- Individualized Home Staffing Arrangements for Adults
- Parent-2-Child Autism Training Program
- Community-Based Day Options for Adults
- Community-Based Transition for Teens and Young Adults
- Twin Rivers Associates Day Program
The Institute’s successful track record is reflected in the comments of those who know its work well.
“I have seen IPP as a critical player in New Hampshire’s developmental disabilities system from the get-go. IPP has played an important role and worked well with others to meet the needs of individuals with complex issues in the community setting. They work particularly well with people with extreme behavioral and complex medical issues.”
- Matthew Ertas, Administrator, N.H. Bureau of Developmental Services