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Transitional Living
Stamford, near Norwalk, where CTL also has an
office. Tran lives in East Windsor.
Farmer kept his full-time job at DSS until
CTL grew to about 50 clients and 50 employees.
"That was a really long, difficult journey,"
Farmer said of balancing full-time jobs while
starting a new company.
Tran found a new job after re-uniting with
Farmer in 2012, working as a neurophysiolo-
gist for Safe Passage Neuromonitoring, a
position he loves and continues to maintain
as he works with Farmer to build CTL. His
job is to monitor brain and spine surgeries
and help doctors avoid nerves.
"It's like another set of eyes" for the doc-
tor, Tran said.
CTL has grown to about 150 clients and has
118 employees, roughly split between full and
part time. Clients are spread throughout the
state, with the exception of the northwest corner.
The company has also begun serving clients
in Colorado and Massachusetts and has visions
of continued expansion, said Neil Connors,
CTL's business manager and lawyer, also 30.
The company's on track for about $1.8 mil-
lion in gross revenue this year, up from $1.2
million last year, $500,000 in 2014 and $50,000
in 2013, Farmer said.
About 99 percent of CTL's patients are on
Medicaid. A few are on private insurance, a
segment the company seeks to grow.
Aside from care assistance, CTL also is
certified for prevocational services, such as
resume preparation for waiver clients, that
are Medicaid reimbursable, and for vocation-
al services for on-site job training of people
with disabilities. CTL would welcome an
employer partner for the latter.
"That's one of the more progressive poli-
cies here in Connecticut," Connors said.
"Rather than just pay for folks to get care,
they'll also pay to have us train them to make
a resume, train them to use Microsoft Office
Suite," Connors said. "That can be done any-
where, at their homes or in the library."
CTL, as its name, Center for Transitional
Living, suggests, also hopes to add physical
centers to its business — places where clients
can learn, socialize and connect to their com-
munities, Tran said.
"Eventually, we want to start doing day pro-
grams so our individuals that we do take care
of, they actually can go to a place … where they
can either do some activities, prevocational
work, or we can teach them how to do things,
or apply for services, or even have a recreation-
al area for them," Tran said.
CTL would like to bring those services into
centers across Connecticut and other states in
which it operates, Connors said. n
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