|
About Our Services
Group Home - Tom Roy Youth Guidance Home
Program Description
The Tom Roy Youth Guidance Home offers care, guidance and supervision
to older adolescents, age 15 –18, placed in the public foster
care system who are not able to be in a family but need to learn
transitional living skills for successful emancipation. The issues
that these young people face may range from failure to find permanence
in a family to chemical abuse to emotional turmoil. For each youth,
the staff creates a comfortable, home-like environment where they
can assess individual needs and create a service plan that will
help the youth discover healthy interests, develop skills, work
on relationships and cultivate on-going support systems to ultimately
become a healthy, adult member of the community.
 |
| The Tom Roy Youth Guidance
Home is an eight-bed coed home in a rural neighborhood near
Big Sky High School in Missoula. |
Program Structure
At the Tom Roy Youth Guidance Home, youngsters receive:
- A safe, stable and creative environment with a Program Director,
five full-time youth care workers and a Home Manager;
- Weekly group therapy sessions fostering critical thinking and
relationship building;
- Transitional living skills development featuring a curriculum
focusing on work ethics, basic living and relationships;
- Trained and skilled staff to provide individual mentoring and
tutorial for accomplishing individual goals;
- Access to an employment network, work placement agencies and
evaluation of career interest for development opportunities;
- A structured daily program, including school and recreational
activities, with a privilege system that teaches social skills,
encourages positive behavior and advocates personal responsibility;
and
- Access to community services, including education, employment,
recreation, culture, therapy and health care.
Placement Criteria
Youth are referred to the Tom Roy Youth Guidance Home through Child
and Family Services, Youth Court Probation, Youth Drug Court Services,
Juvenile Parole, and Turning Point Drug and Alcohol Services. Appropriate
referrals include youngsters, ages 16 to 18 (on some occasions a
15 year old might be appropriate for placement), who are approaching
emancipation without benefit of a stable family situation or family
placement and/or need to develop skills for their pending emancipation
into adulthood. Youth may be facing legal, emotional, social or
learning issues.
Contact Information
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
Melissa Arno, Program Director
2824 W. Central Avenue
Missoula, MT 59804
Phone: 406-728-8127
marno@youthhomes.com
|
