To provide training and support to strengthen community-based living while living in their own apartments or family homes. These services include but are not limited to support usually associated with difficulties recognizing safety issues (such as responding to a fire or using a telephone; assistance to identify and undertake new hobbies; accessing community services; learning appropriate behavior or recognition of community norms, or with relationships and expanding circles of friends.
To provide skills training in the environments where the individual will live, work, recreate, and use the skills. These services include but are not limited to budgeting, shopping, paying bills, and assistance with household tasks such as cooking and cleaning.
To ensure that individuals understand that they are capable of learning skills for improving personal or group power – staff assists individuals with developing assertiveness skills, self-awareness skills, improving self-esteem, decision-making and judgment skills, and socialization.
To facilitate community relationships through various methods of advocacy and one-to-one consultation: linking individuals to support groups, vocational and educational opportunities, and spiritual base organizations; leisure and recreational activities to include outings to sporting activities, parks, and religious services; encourage family outings;
To monitor health and physical condition and provide assistance as needed with transportation, personal care, and activities of daily living – these services include but are not limited to transporting clients to appointments (medical, dental, day support, outings, etc.); assist in personal care to include basic hygiene, shopping, appropriate etiquettes, taking care of laundry, preparing meals, house cleaning, etc.
To empower the individual to realize personal freedoms, individual rights, and responsibilities – these services include but are not limited to training/support relative to basic civil and human rights; morality, values, and ethics; self-esteem building; assertiveness training.
To include each person/family in the development of their person-centered plan from assessment through discharge and everything in between.
To help individuals understand that they have free choices and can act without external guidance -these services include but are not limited to training/support relative to basic civil and human rights, morality, values and ethics, and healthy decision-making.
To empower individuals to exercise control over their lives, including their illness – actively involving individuals in the treatment planning process and training/support relative to basic civil and human rights, morality, values and ethics, self-esteem building, assertiveness training, and healthy decision making.
To help individuals gain the ability and capability to adjust to misfortune or change – an emphasis of this goal will be the individual’s participation in crisis planning.
To assist in facilitating the growth of individuals’ decision-making power. This is expected to be accomplished through role-playing, modeling, storytelling, the use of scenarios, and the ongoing processing of real-life experiences.
To help individuals gain access to information and resources for making healthy decisions – this will be accomplished through psycho-educational groups and the media (videos, books, pamphlets, and storytelling and processing of real-life experiences).
To help individuals understand that they have a right to be assertive and encourage them to think positively relative to their ability to change – this will be accomplished through psycho-educational groups, the media (videos, books, pamphlets, and processing of real-life experiences).
To assist individuals in developing positive self-images and overcoming stigma – this will be accomplished through individual and small group discussions, role modeling, multimedia processing to include storytelling, self-reflections, and unconditional positive regard.
To facilitate moral development relative to right and wrong – storytelling, modeling, individual and small group discussion, and processing real-life and fictional life experiences.
