Aging Adult Supported Living
Our goal is to provide you with all the assistance and support you need to live your life the way you choose. We tailor our care to you by really listening to you – and to your family.
Your goals become our goals. Our professional, trained employees will ensure you have all the support you need to achieve them. As your advocates, we will collaborate with community resources to make certain you are healthy and safe. And we will also make sure you continue to feel confident and happy at home.
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Adult Supported Living Services
Service Alternatives, Inc. is committed to a vision of raising the quality of human services while lowering the cost to the public. Supported Living Programs give persons with developmental disabilities the opportunity to live in their own communities and manage their own affairs.
Human potential and community service are the products we consistently deliver at Service Alternatives.
- Focus on Customer and Community: Providing community based human services since 1983 has proven that quality of care can rise as costs to the customer are lowered.
- Staff Training: SA maintains its own full-time training department, stressing professionalism, competence, and client safety in all aspects of our work.
- Site Autonomy: All programs are built on a human scale with each program manager and staff member responsible for quality and efficiency.
- Individual Assessment: All the people we serve are professionally assessed and personally treated as individuals.
- We develop an Individual Service Plan (ISP) for each program participant.
- Therapeutic Milieu: Our goal is to create and maintain a safe and stable living situation with the optimal level of mainstream interaction for each person we serve.
- Consensus Decision Making: Each of our programs is continually reviewed and open to comment and consideration by staff, customer, and client family. Our goal is to make families full partners. Working hard to maintain close communication and cooperation with the State DDD and DCFS, schools and mental health services means improvements can be implemented with a minimum of delay.
Community & Employment Services
Community & Employment Services (CES) provides a multitude of services designed to support people in finding and keeping meaningful employment in their communities. Services are provided to people with a range of disabilities, as well as to people who are moving from reliance on public assistance to employment. Supports may include resource development, assessment of vocational skills and goal development, job development, work experiences, job coaching, employment retention support, volunteer placement and assistance to overcome barriers that prevent successful employment.
We pride ourselves on our ability to meet our customer's needs in an ever-changing social service environment. Services provided are person-centered, outcome based and a team approach is used in solving problems. We have built a reputation for serving people with the most challenging needs whether it is their disability or their socio-economic status that presents the difficulty for those individuals in obtaining and keeping employment. Our philosophy and belief is that no one is unemployable. It is our job to support people in finding their niche in society and the workplace.
Community & Employment Services provides the vital link between people with disabilities, families receiving Temporary Assistance, community resources and employers.
Specific Services include:
- Career Path
- Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR)
- Independent Living (IL)
- Department of Services for the Blind (DSB)
- Service to School Districts
- Private Pay
- Community Access
- Community Jobs Initiative (CJ)
- Intensive In Home Services (IIHS)
- Harbor Haven Crisis and Respite Childcare
- Nursing Home Transition Program
Children and Family Services:
SA/Children and Family Services provides a wide variety of services and support to children and families throughout the Pacific Northwest. During 2002, we proudly delivered over 12 million dollars worth of cost-efficient services to the people and communities of Washington state. We believe in the intrinsic value of family and its role as a strong foundation of society. Our services are: strength-based, family-centered, customer-driven, outcome-based and responsive to the needs of our local communities.
In our second decade of service to communities we are focusing on family preservation and reunification within a well developed structure of coordinated professional services. We strive to maintain the family structure or return a child to family living within as short of a time period as appropriate. Our primary goal is to empower families by building upon their strengths and increasing their resources, to help them learn to help themselves. Because we build our programs around diverse communities, no two Service Alternatives programs are exactly alike, but all share the same high standards which include:
- Family Support Teams: We bring together informal family and community supports and add coordinated professional services. Close attention is paid to the important role culture plays in the family and community. All people have the ability to learn and to grow and our role is to invoke positive change. This wraparound model of community support is the cornerstone of all our work.
- Focus on Outcomes: All of our work is based on an understanding that the lives of children and families are constantly growing and changing. Our programs direct this energy into attainable outcomes focused on achieving the least restrictive option. Generally speaking, the best outcomes are achieved when children live with their own families, or in an alternative family setting.
- Staff Training: SA maintains its own full-time training department stressing professionalism, competence, client respect and safety in all aspects of our work. All staff receive a high level of training and professional development.
- Individual Assessment: All of the people we serve are professionally assessed and treated as individuals. Safety of the child and family is always the top priority. Staff are highly diverse in their educational backgrounds and utilize a variety of theoretical orientations in working with families, depending on the family's individual strengths, learning styles and presenting needs.
- Consensus Decision Making: Our programs are continually reviewed and open to comment by staff, customer(s), and family support teams. Our goal is to encourage each family to participate as an equal partner. We strive to develop a cooperative working relationship with state government, schools, mental health services and other community partners as a means of implementing services in a timely manner.
Specific Services include:
- Family Preservation Services (FPS)/Intensive Family Preservation Services (IFPS)
- Staffed Residential Programs
- Group Care Programs
- Behavior Rehabilitation Services (BRS)
- S.T.O.P. Program (Solutions to Out-of-home Placement)
- School Consultation and support/private pay
- Regular Foster Care, Specialized Foster Care, Therapeutic Foster Care
Training and Development Services
Training and Development designs and provides training for all staff, foster parents, and identified community members. Training is recognized as a valued and necessary component to supporting participants in fulfilling his/her goals.
Training Sales and Support services are also offered to make trainings available to outside community members and agencies (i.e. school districts, corporations, mental health agencies, other community providers, state agencies). We feature the SECURE™ Crisis Management Seminar. Click here for more info...
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