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Independent Living

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Direct Independent Living Services

• Strength/Needs Assessment
• Focused Life Skills Assessment
• Full Time Life Skills Coaching
• Transitional Living Plan 
       -  3-4 goals per quarter
       -  One exercise or more per week with the assistance of an In-House Mentor
       -  One documented individual meeting per week
       -  Completion of activities documented on level packet
       -  Transitional Living Plan updated each quarter/attached to Treatment Plan
           and submitted to Referring Agency

• Facilitates Life Skills Community Meeting once per month
• Encourages ownership of independent living issues through the weekly Pioneer Club.  This club addresses the leadership program and follows the established pro-social normative culture to transition students into independent living.  

Objectives

• Raise awareness of the need for transitional living preparation
• Improve counselors' ability to teach/instruct in independent living skill development
• Provide instruction and experiences to enable youth to exert control over their own lives and provide opportunities for youth to practice Life Skills in a "real world" environment
• Ensure that youth understand that acquiring Life Skills is a life-long process
• For youth to accept full responsibility for their own Life Skill mastery
• For youth to demonstrate regularly their learned Life Skills
• To empower youth to appropriately advocate for themselves while developing leadership skills
• For youth to actively participate in planning their present and future life After System Care

Assessment Tools

YES Academy will utilize "state-of-the-art" Life Skills Tracking, a strength based competency tool, to determine skill mastery in the following nine domains which include 30 Life Skill areas:

1. Career Planning
2. Communication
3. Daily Living
4. Home Life
5. Housing & Money Management
6. Self-Care
7. Social Relationships
8. Work & Study Skills
9. Work Life