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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, while tailored to the individual
needs of the youth and the youth's family. Services are individualized to each youth and his or her family with a commitment to parents,
families, and the community.
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: positive social interactions, appropriate problem-solving techniques, greater academic success, 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.
Through partnership with the parent(s), the cognitive, emotional and behavioral gains demonstrated by the youth can be transferred into the
environment that is deemed the most appropriate, whether that is a home environment or foster home situation.
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