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Dignity Community Support Services (Dignity CSS)
Where Every Youth is Respected, Loved, Feels Safe and Protected
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Mission
The mission of Dignity CSS is to deliver trauma-informed services to promote the dignity, safety, protection and well-being of every youth to succeed at home, school and in the community at large.
Vision
Dignity CSS is a strength-based program of equal opportunity and resources for all children, youths and families to live a fulfilled life.
Goal
The services of Dignity CSS are short term but, culturally sensitive and trauma-informed to empower and help the youth to be safe, independent, and reestablish family, community lifelong connections and independence.
Dignity Short Term Residential Treatment Program (STRTP)
Dignity STRTP is situated at the charming city of Rancho Cucamonga, which sits at the base of the magnificent San Gabriel Mountains in California. The treatment setting provides both recreational, social and a calming environment that facilitates speedy recovery.
Dignity STRTP operates with the expertise of licensed clinicians, a high staff-to-client ratio and support staff who are specifically trained in trauma-informed care to ensure a safe and appropriate treatment environment that promotes dignity and respect for our youth.
Core Services
Educational Support
Dignity provides educational activities and social support that are trauma-informed and culturally relevant. The program practices and services integrate the youth’s unique cultural idiosyncrasies and different backgrounds. The services are developmentally and age appropriate and incorporate cultural interests into the youth educational plan.
• Youth have access to the same academic resources; school supplies, transportation to recreational activities, culturally relevant activities (clubs, sports, religious activities, school dances and yearbooks) etc.
• Participate in public or private school activities
• College prep/college tours/assistance and financial aid
• Tutoring/acquire information and materials for community college and/or university application, FAFSA information, specialized support services (Disability Support Programs, and vocation.
Permanency/Aftercare
Youth receive services to achieve permanency which includes but not limited to:
• Identify and establish permanent lifelong connections with parents, extended family members, tribes or at least one committed adult to provide a safe, stable and secure parenting relationship, love, unconditional commitment, lifelong support.
• Facility a permanency roundtable mapping for youth struggling to find permanency.
• Access a wide range of individuals to participate in permanency planning, beginning with birth family, extended family, tribal members, past, present and future caregivers, adults who are significant to the youth, other systems with whom is the youth involved, and other community members.
Career Support
The Independent Living Program was authorized by the Foster Care Independence Act of 1999 (Public Law 106-169).
The ILP provides training, services, and benefits to assist current and former foster youth in achieving self-sufficiency prior to, and after leaving, the foster care system to assist them in achieving their educational and vocational goals. Dignity assists her youth to get a job or volunteer capacity to promote independence.
Crisis Intervention
• Dignity facility uses only defensive and evasive non-physical techniques of restraints under extreme circumstances such as when a client is in a direct danger to himself or poses a direct danger to others, at imminent risk of suicide, homicidal, or having to be hospitalized.
• Protocols like the "Adolescent Clinical Screening Questionnaire" are used to assess risk.
• . Dignity maintains a high staff ratio to manage crisis.
• Crisis intervention is individualized as specified in the youth’s NSP and CFT plan.
• The facility provides 24/7 crisis intervention.
Entrepreneurship Support
The engine to young people’s aspirations, hopes, dreams and how to actualize those dreams for the future is through entrepreneurship. Central to Dignity ideals is promoting youth entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial mindset to create a new generation of entrepreneurs by the time youth are transitioning to the community
. Youth learn the skills of creating a job but not limited to;
• Spotting/hunting for opportunities
• interview/evaluating business ideas
• marketing/sales tools
• fun with financials
• writing a 1-page business plan
Medi-Cal specialty mental health services
Dignity will make mental health treatment services accessible to all clients in the day and evening, 24/7 based on the client’s individual needs as indicated on the client’s treatment plan.
(e.g., Therapeutic Behavioral Services, Substance Use Treatment Services, etc.)
• Assessment
• Targeted Case Management
• Linkage and Consultation
• Intensive Care Coordination
• Plan Development as define
• Mental health services (MHS):
• Individual Therapy
• Individual - Family Therapy
• Services to support healing from trauma and/or reduce the risk of re-traumatization
Contact Person
Sarah Philips, PhD, MA, AMFT
- +1 909 803 0601
- dignity063gmail.com
STRENGTHS
- Responsibilty
- Discipline
- Arraanger
- Learner
- Empathy