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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 452589" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>The reason I am asking these questions is there is a community type placement here in NC for specialty type clients. Well there are a couple of them but there is one we seriously looked into but I could never manage to access funding because it crossed too many border wars..sigh.</p><p></p><p>I will explain its set up and maybe you can then explain that to your "team" and they can find something similar out there.</p><p></p><p>This place was in a largely rural area and it was located on an area of probably at least 1000 acre's or so. The whole thing was fenced in around the entire property line somewhat like a military property. Wooded nicely. On this place were several types of family style group homes....There were also schools...middle and high school. I dont believe any children there were in elementary. </p><p></p><p>All the level 2 and 3 group homes were situated around each other on one street with a cul de sac. Then they sort of spike out toward another direction with the more intense level 4 homes on another street. Then they did have maybe two group homes combined behind a barbed wire fence that kids who still needed 24/7 locked monitoring. Those kids were working on moving down to level 4. </p><p></p><p>The goal was for these kids to move down to the best part...the apartments on the site. These were located near where the stores, school, laundry mat, play areas, etc were located. They were two bedroom small apts for roommate situations. A caseworker worked with each person on skills needed to live in the real world. They had to learn all sorts of things there and were taken on outings into real towns to learn skills with buses and taxi's and such. These kids had jobs in the town stores. </p><p></p><p>It really seemed to work for building independent living skills and working kids down from higher levels to the lower levels and out the door to real life without coming back home.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 452589, member: 1514"] The reason I am asking these questions is there is a community type placement here in NC for specialty type clients. Well there are a couple of them but there is one we seriously looked into but I could never manage to access funding because it crossed too many border wars..sigh. I will explain its set up and maybe you can then explain that to your "team" and they can find something similar out there. This place was in a largely rural area and it was located on an area of probably at least 1000 acre's or so. The whole thing was fenced in around the entire property line somewhat like a military property. Wooded nicely. On this place were several types of family style group homes....There were also schools...middle and high school. I dont believe any children there were in elementary. All the level 2 and 3 group homes were situated around each other on one street with a cul de sac. Then they sort of spike out toward another direction with the more intense level 4 homes on another street. Then they did have maybe two group homes combined behind a barbed wire fence that kids who still needed 24/7 locked monitoring. Those kids were working on moving down to level 4. The goal was for these kids to move down to the best part...the apartments on the site. These were located near where the stores, school, laundry mat, play areas, etc were located. They were two bedroom small apts for roommate situations. A caseworker worked with each person on skills needed to live in the real world. They had to learn all sorts of things there and were taken on outings into real towns to learn skills with buses and taxi's and such. These kids had jobs in the town stores. It really seemed to work for building independent living skills and working kids down from higher levels to the lower levels and out the door to real life without coming back home. [/QUOTE]
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