Resident Life

Developing Critical Life Skills in a Caring Home Setting

Journey Home is the perfect fit for girls and assigned female at birth ages 16 – 21 seeking to build on skills learned in therapeutic settings, who still need continued assistance in developing further life skills. Journey Home is designed to be a 6 to 12 month transitional program. During the day, residents work a local job or attend a local high school or college. In the evening, residents return to the home setting with other Journey Home residents and staff.

Journey Home combines the warmth and comfort of a traditional home setting with the continued guiding hand of staff. This means that our residents live in a home setting on a quiet cul-de-sac with other teens who are also coming out of treatment programs.

As part of the program, residents strengthen critical life skill responsibilities such as:

Educational or Vocational Development

Journey Home residents who are looking to continue their education can do so at Journey Home. For some students, this means attending a local high school or working remotely on a GED. Residents can also pursue college course curriculum through local college options or online coursework.
Other residents work at a local job, typically in retail or local restaurants. Journey Home helps residents through the selection and interview process.
Part of the value in both school and holding a job is to reinforce the important life skills of time management, being accountable, and doing something well.

Classes, Instruction, and Therapy

Our goal is to help residents transition from structured residential programs to home. To do this we try to bring the best of both “worlds” – the continued clinical assistance of a program with the practical, real-life aspects of home.

All the girls and assigned female at birth at the Journey Home participate in classes such as the following:

• Nutrition and cooking
• Financial literacy: planning, budgeting, and goal-setting
• Healthy relationships and dating
• Therapy
• Other classes as determined by need and interests to the girls and assigned female at birth

Unlike many other transition programs, residents at the Journey Home participate in weekly therapy, alternating between family and individual sessions. During the week, residents also attend two group therapy sessions, led by the Journey Home therapist. These groups are Healthy Lifestyles and a therapeutic processing group.