Philosophy of Care

Our dedicated staff provides help to children, adults and families by:

Offering Grace
Since we have been wonderfully saved by grace, we are called to offer a grace-filled culture to others:

• We accept each person as a special child of God
• We provide a community of nurture, respect, and protection
• We offer hope for the future through praise, encouragement, and approval
• We encourage risk taking in a forgiving environment that allows for failure
• We give and ask for forgiveness as God has forgiven us
• We apply various modalities of treatment that best meet and maximize individual treatment needs and experiences
• We celebrate the successes achieved

Promoting Healing
Since we have been restored by God, we are called to promote the healing of others:

• We provide a safe environment free from overt or implied threat
• We model integrity, fairness, and acceptance so that clients can learn to trust others and themselves
• We demonstrate empathy towards other’s situations, feelings, and motives that may differ from our own
• We offer opportunity to examine past hurts, looking forward to repairing, restoring, and developing relationships
• We provide a structure for daily living that nourishes the client’s ability to succeed
• We believe that as clients experience success their self knowledge, self management, and self confidence grows
• We believe all clients have strengths, hopes, and dreams that can be utilized to overcome obstacles in their lives
• We recognize the full impact of trauma on a client’s life and seek to avoid further, repeated, or re-enacted trauma

Encourage Learning
Since we have been given the God-given gift to learn, we are called to encourage this gift in others:

• We inspire clients to be all that they can be physically, emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually
• We provide growth opportunities in academics, recreation, and experiential learning,
• We model attitudes and behaviors that encourage the development of positive morals, ethics, and values
• We teach personal accountability that requires taking responsibility for ones actions and ones commitments
• We assist clients to develop competency in life skills necessary for healthy and productive living

Additional Principles
(what our treatment/care environment is not)

• Coerced compliance is not a primary treatment goal
• Group consistency in keeping program rules is not a primary objective of treatment
• Giving consequences to behavior is not a primary teaching tool
• Consequences are not program driven but are subject to individual treatment needs
• Staff will not seek to win power struggles with clients that negate growth-producing discipline and learning
• Shame is never used as a method of intervention to gain cooperation or compliance
• Disobedience is not automatically misinterpreted as being deliberately willful, planful, or manipulativeStaff will not engage in re-enacting the client’s past history of rejection and trauma
• Treatment will seek to be non-physical, non-invasive, and non-restrictive unless physical safety is threatened