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The five program domains at St. Rose Center are Living, Personal, Social, Achievement and Community.  We are a community from which to safely practice optimism of self, others, and the environment.  This occurs through sharing time and attention with individuals one-on-one or in small and large groups.  We encourage responsiveness in learning opportunities within the training program such as enjoyment, observation, interest, caring, orderliness, patience and direction.

 

St. Rose Center believes the whole person grows and develops intellectually, emotionally, physically, economically, civically and religiously.  We feel that given the provision of least restriction, our secure and structured atmosphere becomes a breeding ground for the development of life quality, satisfaction, and dignity.  The individuals served come to accept and believe in natural laws that include order, tolerance, charity and respect.  We approach self-sufficiency and awareness through consciousness of life and life processes.

 

For most of us, life is sensing, feeling and thinking.  However, we can become more exceptionally aware and present.  Dispositions affect our mental processes.  For example, we might look with fear, sadness and anger, or with joy hope and thanks giving.  Positivism is a well nurtured disposition developed with care.  Although, some individuals are predisposed to favorable dispositions and can expand through them; others need assistance in defining goals, objectives and outcomes.  Individuals are challenged to think in general and believe in their rights and responsibilities specifically.  The response of the treatment is that individuals become more interested in their surroundings and find themselves choosing more uniquely. 

 

The varying day by day experiences at the center allow individuals to know trust.  Trust is a gatekeeper between idleness and movement.  Trust allows support and strength where we might otherwise feel inept.  With support, we can safely step out onto fields of what is known and what is unknown.  We can help to restructure commonly misconceived patterns; we look for working avenues of knowledge that may be new or dormant.  We model bridges to new characteristics and roles that work in adulthood.  Through willingness, the individual’s talents emerge to decipher how “things” ought to be.  Independence develops through the individual’s recognition of self discipline, effort and success.  Mind puzzles give way to confidence, competence and a sense of empowerment.  The individual freely breathes in accomplishments, builds healthy relationships in the community and matures in love and spirit.

The Living Domain includes the program areas of Self Help and Living Skills. In Self Help the individuals are assisted in several areas such as cause and effect relationships. This is basic sequencing where the individuals learn how what just happened affects the next, or to predict what will happen next. Object relation is another task learned. This is learning about the individual’s identity through intra-psychic, interpersonal and group experiences. The task of tolerance is a matter learned of accepting self and the differences of others. Life Skills include home management. In home management, individuals learn care of materials, supplies, and tools. Through skill development and direction the individuals are prompted to become familiar with technology and encouraged to choose life styles that are suited to their independence. The individuals learn respect.

The Personal Domain includes the program areas of Health/Safety/Science (H/S/S), personal responsibility, physical fitness and motor skills. In H/S/S, individuals are assisted in reality orientation which is a structural form for individuals who are confused or disorientated in identity, time/place orientation, and in need of consistency in safety or other daily routines. The individuals gather, analyze, and respond to information in their environments. In Personal Responsibility, individuals learn how to think critically through forms of analysis and synthesis. They are reinforced to better their self-image and self-control through completion of tasks, conflict resolution, handling of emotions and goal setting. Physical fitness includes loco and non-locomotors skill by participation of various athletic means. Motor skills assist the individuals to learn through imitation, differentiation and object permanence which is the ability to know objects are there for them (including people), when they are not there physically. With the help of prompts and cues, individuals practice trust.

The Social Domain includes the program areas of Social Responsibility and Speech/Communication. Social Responsibility develops around skill building in inter-personal relations and comprises of listening, respect for others, sharing, accepting differences, communicating, peer pressure, reputations, and development of roles as individuals, peers, family members, neighbors, and community liaison. The individuals practice self-advocacy and self-determination amongst others who are similar or different. Speech/Communication involves the imitation of auditory and verbal stimuli, pre-speech, receptive and expressive language, articulation, and word recognition, identification of images, discussions and speech making.

The Achievement Domain includes the program areas of Functional Math/Money, Functional Reading/Writing, and enrichment. The first of the two functional areas prepare the individual for relationships and concepts, time management, and budgeting processes. The second functional area assists in developing comprehension, resource, symbols, self presentation and publishing. Enrichment includes services, celebrations and holiday programming and general interests such as crafts, decorating, leisure activities, singing and dance. Each of these program areas develop and encourage self-resourcefulness, wonder and awe. It is a swelling of pride of not only themselves, but in their relationship to God.

The Community Domain includes the program areas of Community Knowledge, Work Readiness, and Community Placement. During events of Community Knowledge, individuals become aware of a broad range of values, equity, dignity, interdependence, resourcefulness and enjoyment.  Vocational readiness teaches skill building in many goals such as speed, accuracy, confidence, order, concentration, self control, production, effort, efficiency, attitude, boundaries, and work ethic. Community placement is an orientation of all the above toward acceptance of self in a larger scale working environment of unlimited potential, and then the individuals have opportunities of returning to contribute and integrate with external and internal life-learning processes found and shared at the Center.  The circle of persons becoming rejuvenates itself as a gift of eternal friendship and camaraderie to one another.  It is the sense of belonging.