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Creating a homelike environment designed for healing, learning, and growing. The new facility will allow us to provide residential services to our full licensure of 96 children, rather than only the 60 we can accommodate now. What does that mean? It means we won’t have to turn any child away.
The design will ensure privacy for children with complex medical and behavioral conditions. The distraction-free environment will increase the comforts of home and decrease negative behaviors.
The facility will provide more space in bedrooms for needed medical equipment and children will be kept safe through the use of specialized building materials.
From sun up to sun down, children in our residential halls are constantly on the move. There’s breakfast, school, recess, therapy, and more. It’s about guiding each child towards the skills they need to live their best life.
One of those children is Kari. There was no stopping in her day, but throughout it all she smiled, laughed, and graciously allowed us to follow her to experience residential living at LifeScape.
Music, video games, and a whole lot of attitude! Ty might be all smiles and living his best life, but it’s been a long road. Once, given a zero chance to life after receiving a severe head trauma at 16, he has grown into an amazing young man.
Thanks to the collaboration of speech, physical, and occupational therapists, Ty shows improvement every day. He enters the residential halls with his signature “hey, hey, hey” greeting and acts as the big brother to many of the younger children supported in the Intermediate Care Facility.
The Children’s Residential Intermediate Care Facility or ICF, is for individuals up to 21-years old with Intellectual Disabilities (ICF-IID) who need 24-hour supervision for behavior and/or medical care.
Our goal-supporting spaces, exceptional caring team members, community involvement, and recreational activities creates an inviting living place to empower children and young adults to live their best life.
Behavior and medical support technicians provide care for our residents and are backed by case managers, nurses, behavior analysts and specialists, psychologists, speech-language pathologists, occupational and physical therapists, dieticians, and other experts who specialize in caring for young people with various needs.
There are four halls: Austin, VanDemark, Morrison, and Holmes.
Austin Hall is for children with physical and intellectual disabilities, including cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injuries, autism, seizures, feeding difficulties, and other medically complex needs.
Children with intellectual and behavioral challenges, including autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disorders often co-occurring with medical health care needs, reside on VanDemark, Morrison, and Holmes Hall. These halls provide more intensive behavioral supports for those individuals who need more specialized treatment.
Children and young adults living in the residential setting typically attend LifeScape’s Specialty School. Each of our classrooms are staffed with special education teachers and teaching assistants. Year-round education is provided for residential students from ages 3 to 21. Every student has their own interdisciplinary team that works together to create and implement a learning plan for their specific social, behavioral, and academic needs.
