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Adult Habilitation
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| Older Adult Day Program & Group
Living |
The ARC Habilitation Day program management team currently
is Rickie Merritt, Maddie Rosenblatt, Jody Ellis, and Natalie Lodes. Pictured
at the right are Karen Linforth, Coordinator of Community Living, Jody Ellis,
Director of Habilitation Services, and Natalie Lodes, Coordinator of Habilitation
Day Programs.
ARC Broward's Older Adult Program accommodates
seniors with disabilities who are seeking residential and/or day programs
that offer them opportunities for community participation, recreation, and
socialization that is not labor intensive. ARC Broward provides specialized
supports to individuals with developmental disabilities who are over the
age of 55 or who are experiencing precocious aging. The program operates
from 8:30am to 3:30pm Monday through Friday. On site support staff includes
nurses, social service specialists and behavior specialists, as needed.
The purpose of the Older Adults Program is to
provide individuals with retirement choices/options so that they will have
an opportunity to enjoy a rich, satisfying and meaningful quality of life
as they are aging. Supports are also provided in community-integrated settings
that support individuals in valued roles in the community, are age and culturally
appropriate, increase the individuals' ability to control their environment,
encourage the development of friendships and emphasize community inclusion.
Supports are person-centered based upon individual
choices, preferences, interests, abilities and needs. Each individual receives
an initial and subsequent annual assessment of his/her preferences, interests,
abilities and needs. The individual participates as a key member of his/her
interdisciplinary team to develop yearly Person Centered Plans that include
goals and objectives for the upcoming year. Individualized active treatment
plans are developed and implemented to optimize adaptive functioning and
maintenance of skills. Psychiatric care plans are implemented, as necessary,
to promote safety, comfort and stability of individuals' mental health.
Additionally, assistance is provided as needed for self-care activities (e.g.
toileting, feeding, and medication administration). Individuals are presented
with a "menu" of service alternatives and are assisted by their support teams
to "design" their supports by selecting desired services/activities. Several
activities are offered concurrently to allow for individual choice. |
| Community Participation Program |
This program provides opportunities for individuals
with disabilities to experience community inclusion and to identify occupational
options through community activities. ARC Broward provides specialized supports
to individuals who display deficits in basic personal hygiene skills and
who lack the ability or interest to prepare for integrated community employment.
The purpose of this program is to provide the participants with needed assistance
and support and greater skills and competencies in order to optimize adaptive
functioning and enhance opportunities for social integration. Supports are
provided at ARC Broward's premises and in community-integrated settings.
These supports are designed so that individuals develop valued roles in the
community. They are also age and culturally appropriate and increase the
individuals' ability to control their environment, encourage the development
of friendships and emphasize community inclusion.
The program operates during the weekdays between
the hours of 8:30am and 3:30pm. On site support staff includes nursing, social
service specialists, behavior specialists and a Certified Behavior Analyst.
Treatment is provided within the context of structured and meaningful daytime
activity aimed at maximization of optimal social and behavioral functioning.
Within the first thirty days of enrollment, each individual receives an initial
comprehensive functional assessment of skills and behaviors and participates
as a key member of the Support Team in the development of a Person-Centered
Plan that includes the identification of goals and objectives. Every year
thereafter, assessments are conducted and Individual Program Plans are reviewed.
Treatment Plans addressing the formal objectives are reviewed, analyzed and
modified, if needed, at least monthly. Individuals are presented with a "menu"
of service alternatives and are assisted by their support teams to "design"
their supports by selecting desired services/activities. Several activities
are offered concurrently to allow for individual choice. |
| Intensive Behavior Supports
Program |
Provides opportunities for individuals with
behavioral challenges to work on pre-vocational skills and training as well
as participate in various activities in a classroom setting. The purpose
of this program is to provide the participants with greater skills and
competencies and control or eliminate problem behaviors in order to optimize
adaptive functioning and enhance opportunities for social and vocational
integration.
The program provides day treatment during the
weekdays between the hours of 8:30am and 3:30pm. Support staff includes on-site
nursing, social service specialists, behavior specialists and certified behavior
analysts. Treatment is provided within the context of structured and meaningful
daytime activities aimed at maximization of optimal social, behavioral and
mental functioning.
Within the first thirty days of enrollment in
the program, each individual receives an initial comprehensive functional
assessment of skills and behaviors and participates as a key member of the
Interdisciplinary Treatment Team in the development of a Person-Centered
Program Plan that includes the identification of goals and objectives. Each
objective is addressed through formal behavior programs utilizing behavior
analysis techniques and procedures. Every year thereafter, assessments are
conducted and Person-Centered Plans are reviewed. Short-term treatment programs
addressing formal objectives are reviewed, analyzed and modified, if needed,
at least monthly. |
| Community Living Services |
ARC Broward offers a variety of residential
opportunities for adults with disabilities. These range from group home living
in the community to situations where men and women live on their own in their
own home or apartment. ARC Broward also operates an Intermediate Care Facility
(BARC Housing). The varying degrees of supports and services allows individuals
to select the type and intensity of services and supports that meet their
unique needs.
Supported Independent Living provides
individualized supports to assist adults to live in their own homes in
communities of their choice throughout Broward County. Staff members provide
training, assistance or support coordination in all areas of independent
living, including but not limited to home and community safety, medical/health
care, personal care, homemaking, financial management, community mobility,
social, recreation and leisure and case management. Staff members also provide
emergency on-call services 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Habilitation
Services support staff includes nursing, social service specialists, behavior
specialists and a Certified Behavior Analyst, as needed. Within the first
thirty days of enrollment, each individual receives an initial comprehensive
functional assessment of skills and behaviors and participates as a key member
of the Support Team in the development of a Person-Centered Plan that includes
the identification of goals and objectives. Every year thereafter, assessments
are conducted and Individual Program Plans are reviewed. Treatment Plans
addressing the formal objectives are reviewed, analyzed and modified, if
needed, at least monthly.
Small
group homes for three to six individuals are located in
single-family neighborhoods throughout the Broward County area. Individuals
are provided with room and board and residential habilitation (training and
education). ARC Broward provides constant supervision to the residents of
the homes 24 hours per day, 7 day per week. Examples of the services, training,
assistance and supervision provided to the individuals who reside at the
group homes include active treatment/residential habilitation,
social/recreation/leisure, financial management, transportation, personal
care, homemaking, case management/social services and accessing medical/health
care.
Intermediate Care Facility BARC Housing,
is located in Davie, Florida. It provides a comprehensive array of intensive
specialized services, including but not limited to nursing, dietary,
pharmacological, psychiatric, psychological, behavioral therapy, physical
therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy to thirty-six (36) individuals
with developmental disabilities who also have severe behavioral challenges,
psychiatric disorders and/or significant functional skill impairments.
Additionally, individuals receive training, assistance, supervision or support
in areas such as health, social, leisure, recreation, personal care,
transportation, finances and homemaking to ensure that all of their needs
are met 24 hours per day seven days per week.
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Presently, a collaborative effort between ARC
with the Humane Society has pet therapy sessions for the consumers in the
Habilitation Day Programs. Consumers spend time with Cody, the therapy dog.
Therapeutic use of pets provide comfort and bring out our nurturing instinct.
They make us feel safe and unconditionally accepted. We can just be ourselves.
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