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Our Treatment Philosophy
Mission Statement
Too often, the 'system' lacks a true recognition of a child's needs, which furthers any damage that began in the biological home. Jen's Place wants to offer an environment that is based on normalizing versus pathologizing, nourishing, encouraging, supporting, stimulating and strengthening capabilities as part of a treatment program.
It is the mission of Jen's Place, with each and every child we work with, to provide the child with an environment in which he or she now belongs. The mission intends to assist each child to identify his or her own capacities, their own talents, their own resiliency, their own strengths and ability to successfully address the struggles they face.
Jen's Place will do this by providing children with an environment that empowers and promotes change and motivation. This environment is one that includes families, neighborhoods, schools and community. Each child will have a sense of possibility and will feel that they are more capable of managing the different life experiences confidently and productively.
It is our objective to:
1. Provide a nurturing environment to youth, ages 11-17 years old that are in the care and custody of a Children's Aid Society.
2. To provide a multi-faceted approach to group care that meets each individual youth's, physical, emotional, cognitive and social needs in order to promote positive and productive growth in each of these developmental domains.
3. To provide a family type environment to children in care and to include them in normal day-to-day activities to remove any evidence of differentness.
4. To provide care that is based on strengths rather than deficits. To ensure that programming in individual to the child so the fit between the child and the expectations is beneficial.
5. To work with the child's supports, including family, schools, community, etc. to ensure the development of a cohesive and feasible treatment plan.
6. To have each child actively participate in their community so that they may have experiences that promotes identity and long-term goal formation.
7. To ensure that strategies for managing behaviour are therapeutic rather than reactive and punitive. Behaviour management techniques will be intended to reduce social isolation and attachment difficulties. They will be humanistic and individualistic, authoritative rather than authoritarian or based on power over.
8. To support and guide youth in their endeavor towards participating successfully in the adult world.
9. To create a positive sense of self-esteem and self-efficacy so that each youth is confident in themselves and trusting in others.
10. To establish pathways that encourages valued adult characteristics such as self-reliance, independence, positive group membership and constructive community participation
27 Victoria St East, Suite 207, Alliston, Ontario L9R 1T9
• Tel: 705-250-2233 • Fax: 705-250-3344 •
E-mail: [email protected]
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