Group Home
Our pre-independent living, community based group home houses 12 young men between the ages of 16 and 22 who are preparing to leave state custody. Residential caregivers are on site 24 hours a day, seven days a week to provide structure and guidance. The house provides a stable, safe, and supportive environment for the young men to come home to, while also allowing them to integrate into the community.
Youth are evaluated according to a natural consequence system, where privileges are granted based on age, responsibility, and in proportion to the trust they have earned. The young men are also encouraged to spend time in the community in order to learn how to appropriately interact with others and follow community standards.
Each young man in the program is paired with an advocate, a staff member assigned to assist and counsel him on all aspects of his life. Advocates meet weekly with their assigned youth and help them with a variety of tasks; advocates might take the youth clothes shopping, help them search for jobs, or help them put together a schedule for the upcoming week. In addition advocates and youth often spend time together just hanging out, watching movies, or going out to eat.
All of our activities at the group home are aimed at the ultimate goal of self-sufficiency for the youth. The formal and informal day-to-day lessons being taught by staff are supplemented with workshops designed to teach specific life skills.
A weekly anger management and substance abuse group is also offered and youth are required to attend for their first sixteen weeks at Rediscovery.
To be eligible for the program youth need to be between 16 and 20 year old males, approved for at least group home level care and be able to be safe in the community. If a youth has a prior history of sexual offending or fire setting they need to have successfully completed treatment and be a low risk to re-offend as our group home is located in an elementary school zone. All youth in the program should be able &willing to obtain a job, follow an educational/vocational plan and attend therapy.
