Services
Behavior Management Day Program Services
Through a committed implementation of the following features, the daily program environment is enriched with meaningful material and social reinforcers. This, along with providing necessary training and supports, offers a unique way for individuals to experience success as they move towards a desirable future of their choosing.
Staffing ratio
CSP provides a behavior management staffing ratio of 1:3 (meaning 1 staff to 3 clients).
Program curriculum
The program curriculum is driven by the needs, desires and preferences that each individual has identified as meaningful and valuable to them. The program curriculum is designed to achieve CSP’s goals of providing the supervision, training and supports that these individuals need so they can participate in community life as they choose.
CSP’s curriculum of Community Integration and Self-Advocacy is wholly conducted in the community, where the activities pursued by program participants are similar to those that non-disabled adults would pursue.
CSP provides our program participants with program funds for community integration and self-advocacy pursuits. This includes funds for community access, including social activity expenses and training activity expenses. Other program fund supports may be developed that facilitate or contribute to a given client’s Quality of Life needs or objectives and provide access to a variety of teaching / learning environments.
The program participants’ daily and weekly routines develop around maintaining community relationships that they value, frequenting favorite sites, doing other activities that are of common interest and accomplishing individual to-do lists for the day.
CSP participants are deeply involved in making the choices that provide the supports they need to access the community and engage in social and community interactions in a positive manner.
Schedule of programming activities
The specific schedule of daily activities is driven by the program participant’s input and desires, with coordination, assistance and structure provided by staff. All schedules and locations of activities are chosen by the participants throughout the program day and will be flexible to honor the individual and group needs, desires and choices.
Each day, individual clients and groups of clients choose the activities they want to pursue. They name, or otherwise communicate what activities they want to do. Program participants engage in group planning activities with their small groups every day in order to negotiate with group members how the day will go.
Programming occurs while the program participant is pursuing activities of his/her choice in the community.
Typical daily schedule
8:00– 9:00 Transportation to central meeting locations
9:00–10:00 Large group organization and planning, counseling, relationship building
10:00–11:00 Individual small group planning of activities
11:00–2:30 Carry out the planned activities for the day
2:30–3:00 Transportation to end of day destinations: residence, bus stop, and other
pre-arranged and approved end-of-day destinations
Location in which programming occurs
CSP does not have a building. All activities occur 100% of the time in the community.All locations for programming opportunities are client-driven and are chosen by the individuals being served. Programming occurs in the natural environments within the community: store, restaurant, library, bank, bus, dentist office, social security office, park, ball court, movie theater, flea market, post office, fitness club, neighborhood, community campus, etc. Service is typically provided in Santa Rosa (Sonoma County) and is sometimes provided in neighboring cities if the group decides to go to these locations.
Door to Door transportation
CSP is additionally vendored to provide transportation to and from the program. This curb-to-curb transportation support is provided by familiar, caring day program community trainer staff who work with the participants throughout the day.
These staff have the opportunity to become acquainted with each individual's home environment and build working relationships with home staff, family, or the unique living situations, routines and needs that are relevant to each person.
Participant’s behavioral needs and preferences are integrated into our transportation supports, and flexible arrangements can be made to accommodate special circumstances such as homelessness, frequent residential moves, mental health emergency placements, hospitalizations, roommate squabbles and last-minute arrangements.
Our transportation services and how they are deeply integrated into our overall Behavioral Management Day Program service delivery.
The logistics of our a.m. pick-up support are geared toward meeting the needs of the individuals being served rather than toward pick-up location or optimal route fixing. And our afternoon take-home support time is completely individualized, as the 15 or more groups of vehicles do not meet up again at a common location.
Our transportation support serves to meet increasingly various, client-valued, essential, recognized needs and desires, which significantly enhances participation and sustains a unified support service that seamlessly extends throughout the program day.