Bellefaire's Independent Living Program teaches independent living skills and provides the individualized counseling and services necessary for clients to successfully transition from dependent adolescent to self-supporting young adult.
The program serves males and females, ages 17 to 23, who come from residential or community-based programs including foster care.To enter the program, the youth must be able to function in a work or educational setting, and family reunification efforts must be exhausted.
Service Description
Clients are required to commit to goals that include: family/community support, school, independent living objectives, and identified behavioral improvements. Each of these goals is further broken down into specific, measurable, time-oriented tasks.
Clients meet weekly with a case manager to discuss current issues and receive training in as many as 20 life skills.
Case Managers maintain contact with referring agencies, where applicable, regarding each youth's progress.
Treatment teams may include biological family members, foster family members, therapists, teachers, and others. Each client's individualized team meets every 90 days for a formal review of his or her progress.
Life Skills
Our extensive Life Skills curriculum includes such topics as: apartment management (including searching for an affordable apartment in a convenient location), health and nutrition, job preparedness, income tax instruction, effective communication, and social skills. Clients receive information packets, group lessons, and when necessary, individualized instruction.
To learn more, call Foster Care at Bellefaire JCB.
Cleveland area: 216-320-8518
Toll free: 800-205-8534
Or email infoFC@bellefairejcb.org
This project funded in part by the US Department of Health and Human Services, Children's Bureau, Adoption Opportunity Demonstration Grant #90 CO 0995, Adoption in Ohio's Heartland.
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