SUPERVISED RESPITE
Respite
Respite services are guided by individualized treatment plans that identify a family's own strengths, needs, objectives and treatment goals they can achieve. At Four Directions, Respite Services are intended to meet the needs of families when they lack the resources and natural supports to address the behavioral challenges of raising their children.
Respite care can be:
- Temporary or scheduled on-going Respite that includes:
- Intensive Life Skills mentoring workshops for the client
- A safe environment, meals, snacks and behavior management
- Enable parents/guardians time to :
- Acquire additional skills to meet their child's behavioral health needs
- Utilize the time to meet their own personal needs so that they are re-energized and committed to success in achieving their child's treatment plan goals.
- Work with the Child/Family Team to develop a safety plan
- Eliminate the need for long-term out-of-home placement
- Utilized to wrap services around a family to provide more than just a cool-down period. Clients will work on:
- Coping skills to learn how to self-regulate impulsive behaviors
- Healthy self-esteem
- Age-appropriate social skills to improve interaction