Community Based Services:
 
Basic Skills Training Services (BST)-The rehabilitative intervention includes concrete skills training such as self-care, monitoring for safety, basic living skills, house-hold management, social skills, communication skills, parent education, organization skills, time management and transitional living skills.  The services are designed to be one to one in the home or community setting.  The number of service hours vary according to the need.
 
Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services (PSR)- the program is an in-home counseling service for families in crisis.  Therapeutic Providers work directly with families to build upon their strengths, heal their pain and keep them together as a functional and vital family.  On a highly individualized basis, strategies are developed in collaboration with the family to promote and maintain needed change. Treatment focuses on the environmental approach, which allows the Treatment Provider to work with families in five domains to include:  The individual, the family, school, peers and community.


Facility Based Services:
 
Smart Start-Our Staff (3:1 Client/Staff ration) provides clients with : social skills, individual therapy, play therapy, group therapy, fine and gross motor skill development activities, language, speech, and communication skills activities.

Treatment:
Children who participate in the program will work with qualified staff at the after school program to focus on the following skills:  social, problem solving, communication, organization, and time management.  Staff will facilitate whole and small groups to teach these skills using “Project Achieve” and Brain Gym”.

Early intervention and individualized service has been proven to directly relate to success later in life for the children receiving treatment as well as their families.  The “Smart Start” Early Intervention Program at compass Behavioral Health offers a client and family centered approach working with children who have children who have special needs ages two to five.  The services are provided by experiences, caring, and professional staff in a structured day treatment facility.  Staff members use the unique and innovative “Project Achieve” approach as well as Brain Gym and Applied Behavioral Analysis.  These methods are effective in the teaching children the skill necessary in order to be successful in life.  Our highly trained staff is committed to the role of being “agents of change” for the children.
 
ASAP: After school and Achievement Program- Children who participate in the program will work with qualified staff at the after school program to focus on the following skills:  social, problem solving, communication, organization, and time management. Staff will facilitate whole and small groups to teach these skills using "Project Achieve and Brain Gym."

Treatment:  
Children who participate in the program will work with qualified staff at the after school program to focus on the following skills:  social, problem solving, communication, organization, and time management.  Staff will facilitate whole and small groups to teach these skills using “Project Achieve” and Brain Gym”.

Each client enrolled in the program will receive a behavioral note to track their progress each day in the program and at home.  These notes will include a daily skill, two individual goals, and behavior in the home.  Points will be recorded each day to monitor and track the progress of each of child and reward them for their successes
 
Approaches:
Project Achieve- This approach includes assessing clients and treating them based not only on their treatment needs, but also on their unique learning styles.  The different learning  styles include: visual, use of words, puzzles and numbers, movement, music, group interaction, individual, and naturalistic.
 
Brain Gym- Facilitates each step of learning by waking up the mind/body system and activates its functions through simple integrative movements and repatterning. Exercise increases the supply of blood to the brain.  The difference between exercise and Brain Gym is the program consists of coordinated series of movements that produce an increase in connections among neurons.  This surge of Neurotransmitters increases persons capacity to learn and retain information.