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.