Services
Referrals & Assessments
Referrals
Gratus Services Group will interview individuals who are referred by their regional center and interested in Gratus Service Group’s offered services. The interview will be composed of introducing the GSG team to the individual and exchanging information to determine the individual’s basic support desires and training needs, which will help them in accomplishing their goals.
Interview & Assessment
The interview of a potential participant and assessment process will be a group effort between the Regional Center, the individual’s circle of support, and Program Director and/or Case Manager, also known as the GSG planning team, with a person-centered approach. Our GSG team will review the referral packet given by the Regional Center Service Coordinator. This packet includes necessary information to provide the individual’s history, current status, and other essential information regarding the requirements and supports needed to serve and provide assistance to the individual. The GSG team will then inspect the packet along with the entrance criteria to decide whether GSG is able to fulfill the client’s needs.
SLS & ILS Goals
The goal is to focus on a person’s abilities and their priorities in life. The program will individualize the services, efforts and supports to meet the outcomes below:
- Be included in the community of their choice.
- Make responsible choices.
- Exercise greater control over their life.
- Establish and maintain relationships and a sense of belonging.
- Develop and exercise their abilities and talents.
- Experience personal security, dignity and self respect.
Supported Living Services (SLS) consist of a broad range of services to adults with developmental disabilities who, through the Individual Program Plan (IPP) process, choose to live in homes they themselves own or lease in the community. SLS may include:
- Assistance with selecting and moving into a home
- Choosing personal attendants and housemates
- Acquiring household furnishings
- Common daily living activities and emergencies
- Becoming a participating member in community life
- Managing personal financial affairs, as well as other supports
These services help individuals exercise meaningful choice and control in their daily lives, including where and with whom to live. SLS is designed to foster individuals’ nurturing relationships, full membership in the community, and work toward their long-range personal goals. Because these may be life-long concerns, Supported Living Services are offered for as long and as often as needed, with the flexibility required to meet a persons’ changing needs over time, and without regard solely to the level of disability.
The mission of Gratus Services Group ILS is to provide advocacy and support as directed by the consumer in all areas of their life. ILS is identified as a traininig program to identify and develop the inidividual’s ability to live independently.
The areas of ongoing training include but are not limited to include:
- Training and guidance in locating and evaluating all levels of Independent and independent housing.
- Accessing benefits and other resources.
- Skills training in the areas of financial management, personal life skills, and household activities.
- Training in accessing and coordinating medical and specialized health care.
- Opportunities for access to activities and social interaction to reduce isolation and build relationships.
- Mobility training and assistance.
- Developing natural supports, which may include friends, neighbors, relatives, and coworkers who can help an individual build their interdependent support system.
- Guidanace in locating necessary parent skills training programs (nutrition, discipline, positive role modeling).
- Advocacy to navigate services with other agencies, including, but not limited to child protective services or I.H.S.S.
- Assistance with resources for victims of domestic violence and victims of sexual abuse.
- Locating resources for drug and alcohol addictions, mental health issues, correction and judicial referrals and assistance with probation and supervision requirements.