Youth Treatment and Family Support Services
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Youth Case Management: Youth Case Management Services offer families, children and youth needed assistance to coordinate and obtain other community resources and services that will enhance the child's or youth's ability to remain with family and to participate fully in the community. The case manager also helps to empower parents to effectively advocate for their children and to use their own strengths and natural supports to accomplish goals.
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Family Support Services:
Family Support Services offer families parenting education, skill building activities for children and youth, one-to-one therapeutic aides, counseling, children and youth groups, and respite. Services are individually designed by the family and their intervention team (a clinician, treatment specialist, treatment technician, and other community-based professionals) and implemented through a strength-based action plan. Services are provided in the family's home and in the community, as needed, seven days a week. Emergency program support is available 24 hours a day.
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Therapeutic Foster Care:
Therapeutic Foster Care offers daily care and residential services in a therapeutic environment for children and youth. The foster parents are professional caregivers who provide individualized supports for children or youth residing in their home based on a strength-based action plan.
In addition, a clinician, a treatment specialist, and a treatment technician provide support to the child or youth and the foster parents as the action plan is implemented.
- Contact: , Therapeutic Family and Foster Care Coordinator
Phone: 656-0928
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Intensive Youth Residential Group Home Services: Our services are designed for youth with severe emotional disturbance who need a normalized, integrated home-like living environment. There are two homes in Kalispell, with four male children living in each home, who attend local schools and are involved in the community life around them. Daily care and residential services are provided, including close supervision, needed structure and individualized supports based on each youth's strength based treatment plan. Youth participate in skill building activities, both individual and sessions and therapeutic groups, and community activities. Family involvement is encouraged. When discharged, youth transition from a therapeutic group home to therapeutic foster care, transitional living or family support services. .
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Adult Day Services
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Intensive Adult Habilitation: This service provides training to adults who are not ready for vocationally oriented programs. Many individuals have few self-help skills. Some may have physical handicaps, and others, extremely challenging behaviors. Higher staff ratios exist to meet more intensive training needs. The goal is to prepare individuals to move to vocational services.
| Work Services:
Most of the adults we serve are actively involved in work services. A.W.A.R.E.’s Work Services Center provides a range of programs from work readiness, job skill training and production, and individuals are paid according to their efforts. The goal is to prepare individuals for supported or competitive employment. Work services currently revolve around A.W.A.R.E. recycling, mobile work crews, and enclaves.
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Adult Residential Services
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Intensive Community Home:
This home serves adults who may be challenged as the result of a lack of ability in the area of self-help skills and have developed behaviors as a means of coping.
More intensive training is provided and higher staff ratios exist. The goal is to prepare the individuals to move to a less restrictive residential environment.
| Adult Group Homes:
A.W.A.R.E. adult group homes are capable of serving eight adults. Training is provided in independent living skills such as home safety, cooking, housekeeping, leisure and recreational skills and money management. The goal is to enable individuals to live more independently within this supervised environment.
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Supported Living/Community Supports: Supported living provides a specialized array of services and supports that promotes individual choices, independence and safety in integrated environments in the community.
| Supported Employment:
A.W.A.R.E. supported employment services provide job placement for individuals in the community. Our service assists persons with disabilities who require ongoing support on and/or off the job in order to choose, obtain and retain paid employment in integrated settings. Job training and “follow along” services are provided. Support and assistance to employers is a key element.
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