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 Group Home care is provided for youth whose behaviors require greater supervision than that which
can be provided in Foster Care. The program promotes feelings of comfort, safety, and goodwill for parents, youth, and other
persons involved in the youth’s care. The care that is provided is empirically based upon the best and most current scientific
literature, and is tailored to the individual needs of the youth and the youth’s family.
Services are provided with a commitment to parents, families, and the community, and are individualized to each youth
and his or her family.
In order to maximize the likelihood of the youth’s success at home and in the community after services are
completed, services are provided in the most normalized environment possible, one that most reflects where and how the youth will
live after leaving the group home.
The purpose of the group home is to provide a stimulating, enriched, and positive therapeutic milieu in which the youth is systematically
and constantly taught how to maximize awareness and control of his/her emotions and behaviors. This is accomplished through planned,
strengths-based, ecologically-oriented, and systematically applied cognitive-behavior modification technologies aimed at helping the youth
develop the necessary and appropriate skills (cognitive/emotional/behavioral) required for community living and further integration into
mainstream life. Examples of those skills and abilities include, amongst other things: positive social interactions, appropriate problem-solving
techniques, greater academic success, and appropriate recreational choices, personal survival skills, and independent living skills.
In addition, parents of the youth are taught the same techniques which proved successful in shaping more adaptive behaviors with their children.
Through this partnership with parents, the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral gains demonstrated by the youth can be transferred into the home
environment, or foster home situation, which ever is most appropriate.
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