Good Space
Making a Difference in the Lives of Others
Good Space
About Our Services at Good Space
Supervised Visits
is primarily a site-based service provided in order to facilitate contact between children in out of home care and their biological parents, relatives or significant others, to monitor this contact and to report on the contact to DCF social workers. All sites must be approved by the local DCF Area Office. Supervised visitation can also be provided in alternative, more normalized community settings as part of a reunification plan and as approved by the DCF Area Office.
Community Based Life Skills
are a set of skills learned by teaching or by direct experience. These skills are used to handle problems and questions commonly encountered in daily life from adolescence through adulthood. A community based services model focuses on the development and enhancement of the participant’s knowledge of essential life skills to promote preparation for adulthood and self-sufficiency. Through program design and content, the model goal is to support and maintain a youth’s connection with the community as the youth mature. This service, through the use of the DCF approved Learning Inventory of Skills Training (L.I.S.T.) assessment tool and experiential learning approaches, provides youth with a set of skills necessary to assist in their transition from DCF care to self-sufficiency. This service includes an individual life skills assessment, followed by individualized and small group experiential learning opportunities. This service is intended as a component of a comprehensive case plan. As such, the individual providing this service is expected to collaborate with other service providers toward the implementation of the child or youth’s individual case plan.
SS Mentoring
Support Staff is a service designed to address the individualized needs of a child or youth in the community who may be exhibiting mild to moderately challenging behaviors in the home, in school or in the community. This service provides a range of life supports focused on making positive decisions and behavioral choices; assisting with attaining social and emotional gains; connecting with positive peer and other community supports and reinforcing success in school. These individualized supports are provided by paid, trained and supervised individuals. This service is provided for up to five (5) hours per week per child or youth and includes a combination of structured and enrichment activities consistent with identified treatment plan objectives. In order to emphasize consistency and relationship building, it is expected that the same staff person will continually provide this service during the course of care. This service is intended as a component of a comprehensive treatment plan. As such, the individual providing this service is expected to collaborate with other service providers toward the implementation of the child’s or youth’s individual treatment plan.
TSS Mentoring
Therapeutic Support Staff is service designed to address the individualized needs of a child or youth with complex behavioral health needs. These children or youth have a current diagnosable behavioral health condition that results in moderate to acute functional impairment which substantially interferes with, or limits the child’s or youth’s role or functioning in family, school, or community activities. This service is intended for children or youth whose level of functioning puts them at risk of entering a residential level of care, disrupting from their home or foster placement, or for children or youth who are being discharged from residential treatment or a more acute level of care. These individualized supports are provided by paid, trained and supervised individuals. This service is provided for up to eight (8) hours per week per child or youth and includes a combination of structured and enrichment activities consistent with identified treatment plan objectives. For children or youth discharging from residential treatment/congregate care, the service is provided for up to two (2) visits for no more than one (1) hour per visit prior to discharge. In order to emphasize consistency and relationship building, it is expected that the same staff person will continually provide this service during the course of care. This service is intended as a component of a comprehensive treatment plan. As such, the individual providing this service is expected to collaborate with other service providers toward the implementation of the child’s individual treatment plan.
Mission Statement
To positively impact the lives of everyone we serve by assisting them to meet their individual goals.