Consumer Support Services

The company was set up in the beginning as a consulting company to assist residential providers and County Boards of Developmental Disabilities with technical assistance in providing residential services to individuals diagnosed as having mental retardation or some form of developmental disability. The co-founders had diverse experience in the fiel... d of services to handicapped individuals and intended to continue their present vocations on a regular basis and work with CSS on a part time basis. Dan Swickard, was the President and owner of Community Living Concepts, Inc., a small residential provider serving thirty-six (36) individuals in Newark, Ohio in ICF/MR (Intermediate Care Facilities for the Mentally Retarded) group homes. Aside from having this ICF/MR services background he had also served as a County Board Superintendent and a Special Education teacher prior to getting into the residential services business. Randy Nipps, a Certified Public Accountant, was founder and President of the accounting firm of Nipps, Brown, & Andreas, Inc. The accounting firm exists today under the name Nipps, Brown, Hennebert & Collins, Inc. located in Columbus, Ohio. His firm provided accounting and consulting service to long-term care facilities (Nursing Home and MR/DD) throughout the state of Ohio as well as general business accounting services. His firm provided accounting and consulting services to the company that Mr. Swickard worked for and when Mr. Swickard started Community Living Concepts, Inc. was engaged as their accounting firm. Given their individual backgrounds and reputations in their fields of expertise the group, now known as Consumer Support Services, Inc. now moved forward seeking contracts to providing assistance to others in the field as they had planned. One of CSS's first client was an established firm in Trumbull County at the request of the local county board. That company was having numerous administrative problems as well as staffing and day-to-day operations problems. CSS partners and other ...Read More