24 hour care...
Residential Services provide a protective home-like setting. It includes:
The primary purposes of the program are:
- ongoing evaluation
- Planning
- 24-hour supervision
- Coordination and integration of health or rehabilitative services
- Encouraging each individual to function at his greatest ability
- Intermediate Care Facilities (ICF-MR)
- Home and Community-based Services (HCS)
- Texas Home Living (TxHmL)
Residential services strive to:
- To furnish health and rehabilitative services to persons with mental retardation or persons with related conditions
- To assist residents to gain skills for increased independence
- To implement specialized and generic training, care and treatment
Program components are:
- Maximize social/emotional skills, domestic skills, self-help skills, vocational, financial and leisure skills
- Provide individual choice and self-management
- Provide self-determination and independence
- Prevent or decelerate regression or loss of current functioning status
Environment
- Serving infants, children, adults and the elderly
- Supervised residential care
- Community integration
- Recreational activities
- Professional treatment and training
- Safe, healthy, physical care
- Psychological services
- Nutritional services
- Physical and occupational therapy
- Speech therapy
Staff-assist each person to determine and meet individual goals, including:
- Residences in Smith, Henderson and Van Zandt Counties
- Homes are in residential neighborhoods
- Close to community shopping and recreation
- Attractive, beautifully landscaped and well-maintained
- Normalized home-like living situation
- Unit managers, assistant unit managers, direct care staff
- Psychologist, nurses, nutritionists
- Consultants such as speech, occupational and physical therapists
