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About Our Services
Foster Care - Guide Home Program
Program Description
The Guide Home Program of Youth Homes, Inc. places juveniles, coming
out of the State’s Correctional Institutions, into individual
placements with adult individuals or childless couples who act as
surrogate parents and guides to these older adolescents who are
attempting to transition from successful institutional stays into
productive, positive community lives. The program aims to assist
these youth through supported living, guidance, mentoring, counseling,
life skills development, community resources, educational opportunity
and relationships at a level they can accept.
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Program Structure
In the Guide Homes, these youngsters receive:
- Consistency in the form of structure and approach; designs derived
from and coordinated with the programs they are emerging from,
successfully, in our State’s Correctional Institutions;
- A safe, stable environment living in a family-like setting;
- Mentoring from the adults in their lives, as well as specially
assigned and trained program mentors;
- Continued treatment in the community through access to and
the use of trained, specialized community therapists;
- Individual therapy twice a month; more when necessary and appropriate;
- A highly coordinated system and structure of people and resources
to aid in the transition back to positive community living through
a team approach; and,
- Access to community resources, including attendance at schools
and involvement in community service projects.
Placement Criteria
- Males and females are both accepted into this program.
- They must be successfully completing a stay at Pine Hills Youth
Correctional Facility for juvenile males and Riverside Youth Correctional
Facility for juvenile females.
- We target those between the ages of 15 and 18 and appropriate
to an open setting in the community.
- They must be recommended by State Institutional Staff and accepted
by Youth Homes Staff as appropriate to a Guide Home placement.
For more information about admitting a youngster into the
Guide Home Program contact:
Sally Stansberry, Director of Operations
PO Box 7616, Missoula, MT 59807-7616
Phone: 406-721-2704 ext. 225
Fax: 406-721-0034
sstansberry@youthhomes.com
For information on becoming a Guide Home contact:
Bill Neaves, Family Developer
P.O. Box 7616, Missoula, MT 59807-7616
Phone: 406-543-7792 ext. 204
Fax: (406) 543-0356
bneaves@youthhomes.com
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