Transitional Living Services
"A Stepping Stone to Independence"
Program Description
Hogares offers a home setting for youth to facilitate their shift from dependence on care by others to care of themselves. Previously residing in an emotional/behavioral treatment setting, they are at a crossroads. This is a particularly vulnerable stage in life, that of transitioning from youth to young adult. They have limited housing resources, few funds and insufficient self-care skills. Within settings designed for safe co-ed living, staff oversees the living environment, trains and facilitates access to community resources and skill development. A successful discharge from Transitional Living Services (TLS) means that a youth now possesses the skills to secure a living space of their own and manage their lives successfully.
Model is not actual Hogares client.
Prior behaviors requiring treatment services may have included:
- Verbal and physical abuse and threatening behavior
- Drug involvement
- Running away
- School truancy and dropout
- Inappropriate sexual behavior/aggression
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Self-abuse
- Behaviors that led to involvement with the law
Services are all encompassing
- A safe learning environment
- A short-term program (6 to 12 months)
- A network of support
- House rules to include curfew
- Approved visitors
- Awake staff through the night
- Staff assistance in skills for living
- Skill specific sustained training classes
- Case Management services
- Individual therapy if the need is identified
- Coordinated services
- Freedom to leave
To accomplish personal freedom and live successfully as adults behavior change can be sustained through:
Skill development
Effective communication
Awareness and use of community resources including but not limited
to:
Department of Labor
New Mexico Career Network and their New Mexico Job Hunters Guide
Medicaid enrollment and benefits
Health care, immunizations, screenings
Educational goals:
Completing high-school or GED
Investigation of higher education (college, TVI)
Scholarship or grant applications
Enrollment
Model is not actual Hogares client.
Job seeking skills:
Discovery of employment options
Filling out applications
Interviewing practices
Sustained employment
Money management skills:
Checking account
Balancing checkbook
Budgeting funds
Transportation:
Use of public transit system
Safe Ride and other options
Involvement in structured daily living:
Time management
Meal planning, grocery shopping and cooking
Shared household responsibilities (indoor, outdoor)
Room care
Laundry care of own personal clothing
Grooming skills
Growing confidence and self-respect:
Able to verbally represent themselves and listen well to others
Taking responsibility for themselves
Engaging in empathy and respect for others
Formulating their own boundaries and adhering to the boundaries
Living chemically free, attending AA/NA meetings
Improving positive choices and decision making skills
Engaging in positive social encounters
