Challengers Independent Living, Inc.

• Bert’s Place and Bert’s Place Too- independent living preparatory program. At this phase of the program, Participants will be able to practice life skills in a community setting within a 24 hour supervised living environment. The goal of the program at this level is to assist the Participant with becoming academically and emotionally stable. We understand the temptations and challenges ahead at the independent living program (ILP) level. Therefore, we must prepare our Participants from a proactive stand point. Enable them to establish routines that are internalized that will enable them to make good decisions on a regular and consistent basis. It is that building of cognitive structure that will rule the day! • Challengers Independent Living East and West- Independent living Program. At this phase of the program, Participant reside in an apartment style living environment. Participants are age level maturity with an ability to participate within the community with minimal supervision. The goal in this phase of the program is to allow our Participants to practice independent life skills with moderate supervision. Staff will have face to face contact with Participants throughout the day and throughout the evenings. The purpose is to provide monitoring to allow our participants to demonstrate mastery of a variety of life skills. • Challengers Advance- Self-Sufficient Living Program- In this phase of the program, Participants resides in their own home. Participants are allowed to purchase homes, rent apartments, rooms, etc. on their own merits. Their names are on every aspect of the house, e.g., lease, utilities, cable, telephone, etc. Participants whom make it to this level of the program would have demonstrated mastery of more than fifty concrete tasks/milestones. The goal is to allow our Participants to live self-sufficiently within the community with minimal support. Focusing on the word support which will inevitability discontinue at the age of twenty one, at least from a financial perspective. Additionally, Participants are allowed to transition to their home while they are still in care and we can help them through the adjustment phase of living completely on your own. This program is nearly ten years old and we have not had one Participant fail at this level of the program. There are rigid prerequisites to meet prior to graduating to this phase. It is the goal of every employee in our entire organization to get our Participants to Challengers Advance as swiftly and efficiently as possible. • Challengers Beyond- After Program. Challengers will continue to service our participants for one year post discharge from foster care. This phase of the program is unfunded, therefore financial support is limited, and however, each Participant can continue to receive Case management services for up to 12 months post discharge from Maryland’s foster care system • Challengers Teen Parent Program - provides comprehensive life skills and parent training to teens who are pregnant or with at least one child and living in foster care. The purpose of the program is to provide a nurturing environment for teen parents who have accepted the challenge of parenthood. The goal of the program is to provide a nurturing environment to practice life skills that will allow them to adequately parent their child while living in foster care. Participants will be provided with resources that will enable them to continue to work, attend educational endeavors and pursue career goals. One of Challengers Independent Livings’ goals is to reduce the rate of young adults, discharged from foster care, usage of already overburdened government adult assistance programs. Our Case Manager utilizing Object Relations as our theoretical underpinnings. Object Relations takes into account the needs of the child and the ability of the parent to adequately meet the child’s needs on a regular and consistent basis.

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