Service Overview
Service Goals
- To provide a residential service that respects the rights of each individual child and his/her family, honours their strengths and strives to meet their emotional, spiritual, physical, intellectual, environmental and cultural needs.
- To restore the child’s sense of safety and trust in adult caregivers through consistency and a predictable environment.
- To help stabilize the child’s behaviour though improved neurological functioning stimulated by trauma informed interventions.
- To assess the child’s functional ability through planning, identifying and addressing areas for growth.
- To assist the child and caregivers to gain insight into his/her trauma triggers and work towards learning new behaviours and coping skills.
- To identify and build upon the child’s (and family’s when appropriate) strengths and abilities in a positive manner.
- To enhance the child’s self concept.
- To improve the child’s ability to interact positively with others and form healthy relationships.
- To ensure each child has a meaningful educational placement.
- To support the permanency plan for each child.
- To provide aftercare through informal support to the child and his/her family as programming responsibilities permit.
Service Activities
Services provided include:
- A warm, nurturing, and safe environment.
- Trained professional youth care team with a high level of affect management skills, trauma assessment skills, attunement skills, non violent crisis intervention skills, as well highly developed verbal intervention skills.
- Case management in consultation and tandem with the agency social worker.
- Development of an individual treatment plan including clearly defined and measurable goals which are assessed quarterly.
- Preparation and submission of quarterly reports detailing the child’s activities and progress.
- Clinical support and guidance in the development of treatment goals, crisis prevention planning and intervention strategies for each child.
- Clinical direction and support to the youth care team to assist them in developing therapeutic in the moment interventions.
- Groups on modulation, skills streaming, moral reasoning, anger reduction, and life skills.
- Experiential recreation programming based on HIGH FIVE® Principles including the use of community based resources.
- Making and attending dental, medical, and therapist appointments.
- Support for children to engage in summer camping programs.
- Consultation with Community Mental Health when more intensive therapeutic intervention is required.
- Daily educational support and liaison with community schools.
- Intensive day programming for non school hours and for children who are in transition into community school placement.
- Family support and consultation regarding behavioural interventions.
- Nutritionist approved meal planning.
- Administrating and monitoring medication regimes as prescribed by medical professionals.
Service Outcomes and Indicators
- Increased knowledge of the traumatic responses presented by each child.
- Increased awareness of supportive interventions that reduce traumatic stress responses.
- Improved coping behaviour in the home and community setting.
- Increased sense of safety evidenced by developmentally appropriate attachment indicators.
- Improved ability to develop positive relationships.
- Increased capacity for reciprocal play.
- Increased capacity for collaborative problem solving.
- Increased ability to integrate thinking, feeling, and doing.
- Increased ability to regulate emotions.
- Decrease in frequency of fight, flight, and freeze response.
- Improved relationship with family members.
- Regular school attendance.
- Improved academic competency and social behaviour in the school setting.